Putin Tells U.S. to Send Evidence of Vote Meddling
Vladimir Putin has claimed there is still no hard evidence that Russian nationals interfered in the 2016 presidential election and that everything put forward so far, including the indictment against 13 of them, amounts to ''yelling and hollering''.
He made the comments in a sit-down interview with Megyn Kelly which aired on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on Friday.
It was their second meeting - Putin sat down with the former Fox star at the start of her NBC career last year.
During Friday''s interview, he suggested that the evidence described by in Mueller''s indictment was not proof of interference and not enough for him to take action against the people it accuses.
''I have to see first what they''ve done. Give us materials, give us information,'' he said.
The 13 Russians were charged with an array of crimes but it has never been expected that they would be extradited to face justice.
What Putin ignored in the questioning from Kelly - or what has been shown of it so far - is whether he not he ordered the meddling himself.
He has close ties to the head of the meddling operation, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who started the troll factory before Trump announced his campaign as a vehicle to spread pro-Kremlin material on social media. https://discord-servers.co/
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Vladimir Putin said he would not yet charge any Russian nationals accused of election interference nor would he hand them over US authorities unless they had broken his country''s laws
He then seemed to shift his argument to say that he would only hold the people responsible if they had broken Russian laws, ignoring any US laws which they may have been in breach of.
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More of the interview will be shown over the coming days, according to the show''s host Lester Holt.
Putin made the comments during an interview which aired Friday night with NBC''s Megyn Kelly
