Senator Mark Warner on the Threat of Russia
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🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In an atmosphere of toxic political partisanship, the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence is working very hard to maintain a functioning bipartisan investigation on Russian interference. The vice-chairman of that committee, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, is more informed about Russia’s role in the 2016 election—on social media and in communications with the Trump campaign—than just about anyone else in Washington. Warner is deeply frustrated that, after everything his committee and others have discovered about Russian hacking and manipulation, the White House is ignoring a clear and present danger. Russia has interfered with democracy in the United States and elsewhere “for less than the cost of one new F-35 airplane,” Warner tells David Remnick. “We’re buying the world’s best twentieth-century military, when in many ways, the conflict in the twenty-first century may be in the realm of cyber and misinformation,” he says. “And in those areas, Russia is our peer.”
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| 0:50.6 | On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks to Senator Mark Warner. |
| 0:56.4 | Warner is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is carrying out an investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 election. |
| 1:07.4 | Now, the threat of Russia is one thing, but here in the United States, we don't even |
| 1:12.0 | understand the damage Russia has already done to our democratic processes. |
| 1:17.5 | And even to ask about Russian meddling, unfortunately is seen as a partisan move. |
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| 1:29.5 | And the House Intelligence Committee just concluded its investigation with bitter disputes between the Republicans and the Democratic minority. |
| 1:38.2 | But in the Senate, on the Intelligence Committee, members are working very hard to maintain at least a functioning bipartisan investigation. |
| 1:46.0 | The committee's vice chairman is Mark Warner, Democratic Senator from Virginia. |
| 1:51.3 | Few people in Washington are more up to speed than Warner on Russian exploitation of social media |
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