The Daily Beast's Avlon on evidence of Russian electoral intervention: “This is walking and quacking like a duck”

From the September 7 edition of CNN's New Day:

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JOHN AVLON: The reason this is significant today isn't just it's the president's son, that's highly unusual, let's not forget that. But the point is that we know that Russia wanted to help the Trump campaign. That's irrefutable now despite all their denials. We know that the only human being not named Trump the president seems to have not criticized as a matter of principle is Vladimir Putin. And now because of yesterday's story we know that Facebook gave ads to a Russian-backed firm running ads to influence votes on Trump's behalf by Russian entities. You don’t need, you know, sometimes -- this is walking and quacking like a duck, folks, and we're going to connect the dots, but that's part of what the Senate's [unintelligible].

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