PBS高端访谈:特朗普称希拉里应该成为有关俄罗斯调查的焦点

 　　As the Russia probe continues, President Trump¹ and conservative media outlets² are promoting two stories about Hillary Clinton that they say should be the real focus of an investigation³.

　　But what's the truth behind those allegations? Our William Brangham is here to put them in context.

　　And you look at what's happened with Russia and you look at the uranium deal and you look at the fake dossier.

　　With Uranium One, the FBI had mountains of evidence of Russian bribery⁴.

　　The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid $12 million for a dossier to connect Donald Trump to Russia.

　　The president and much of the conservative media are arguing that these two stories about the infamous⁵ Russian dossier

　　and the so-called Uranium One deal are evidence that not only is the Russia story a hoax⁶, but that Hillary Clinton should be investigated, not President Trump.

　　First, the dossier. The so-called Russian dossier was compiled by this man, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

　　He got his information from various Russian contacts, some of whom he paid for their info. Steele was working at the time for a company called Fusion⁷ GPS.

　　In January, BuzzFeed News released a copy of the dossier. It contained as yet unproven allegations that the Russians had wanted Mr. Trump to win the election,

　　that Russians had shared valuable information about Hillary Clinton with the Trump campaign,

　　and that Russia had compromising sexually explicit⁸ video of Mr. Trump that could be used as blackmail⁹.

　　The conservative news site The Free Beacon¹⁰ initially¹¹ paid Fusion GPS to gather material against Mr. Trump.

　　It was gathered for Marco Rubio's presidential campaign because The Beacon's largest funder was a big Rubio supporter.

　　That funding stopped when Mr. Trump clinched¹² the Republican presidential nomination¹³.

　　After that point, Marc Elias, a top lawyer for the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign,

　　continued paying Fusion GPS, and that's when the Steele dossier was compiled.

　　It's these payments that the White House says proves the Clinton campaign was behind the whole Russia story.

　　They seem to be arguing that, because Christopher Steele got his information from Russian sources,

　　that means the Clinton campaign was colluding with the Russians and creating this false narrative¹⁴.

　　Here's how White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders put it today:

　　There's clear evidence of the Clinton campaign colluding with Russian intelligence to spread disinformation and smear¹⁵ the President to influence the election.

　　The White House's theory ignores the broad consensus¹⁶ shared by U.S. intelligence agencies that the Russians did try and influence our elections,

　　in part by hacking¹⁷ e-mails from the DNC and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

　　The second story is about the so-called Uranium One deal, which President Trump has called this era's Watergate.

　　It dates back to 2010 and the sale of a controlling interest in a company called Uranium One.

　　It's a Canadian mining company that partly operates in the United States, and it was sold to a state-owned Russian corporation, Rosatom.

　　The sale involved control of about 20 percent of the United States' uranium reserves, and the sale required a review by the U.S. government.

　　The claim is that Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, approved the sale in exchange for $145 million in contributions to the Clinton Global Initiative.

　　Hillary Clinton gave them 20 percent of our uranium, gave Russia, for a big payment.

　　So, let's break this down. First, Secretary Clinton didn't have the authority to approve the deal.

　　Several different U.S. agencies had to sign off on the deal, all of which did.

　　There is no evidence that Clinton was informed or involved in the sale at all.

　　Second, the uranium never left the country. It's not legal to export uranium produced in U.S. mines.

　　The Clinton Foundation did receive $145 million in contributions from individuals connected to Uranium One, beginning at least a year before the sale.

　　And, in 2010, the year of the sale, former President Bill Clinton received $500,000 from a Russian bank for a speech he gave in Moscow.

　　For now, those all have been deemed legal transactions.

　　But, still, today, Mr. Trump once again stoked these stories on Twitter, suggesting now that even the Obama campaign might have been in on creating the dossier.

　　And on Capitol Hill, congressional Republicans continue their calls to investigate the Clinton campaign. For the PBS NewsHour, I'm William Brangham. undefined

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 outlets   

n.出口( outlet的名词复数 )；经销店；插座；廉价经销店

参考例句：

• The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

4 bribery   

n.贿络行为，行贿，受贿

参考例句：

• FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
• He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。

5 infamous   

adj.声名狼藉的，臭名昭著的，邪恶的

参考例句：

• He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
• I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。

6 hoax   

v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧

参考例句：

• They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
• They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。

7 fusion   

n.溶化；熔解；熔化状态，熔和；熔接

参考例句：

• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc. 黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
• This alloy is formed by the fusion of two types of metal.这种合金是用两种金属熔合而成的。

8 explicit   

adj.详述的，明确的；坦率的；显然的

参考例句：

• She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
• He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。

9 blackmail   

n.讹诈，敲诈，勒索，胁迫，恫吓

参考例句：

• She demanded ＄1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
• The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。

10 beacon   

n.烽火，（警告用的）闪火灯，灯塔

参考例句：

• The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
• The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。

11 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

12 clinched   

v.（尤指两人）互相紧紧抱[扭]住( clinch的过去式和过去分词 )；解决（争端、交易），达成（协议）

参考例句：

• The two businessmen clinched the deal quickly. 两位生意人很快达成了协议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Evidently this information clinched the matter. 显然，这一消息使问题得以最终解决。 来自辞典例句

13 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

14 narrative   

n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的

参考例句：

• He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
• Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。

15 smear   

v.涂抹；诽谤，玷污；n.污点；诽谤，污蔑

参考例句：

• He has been spreading false stories in an attempt to smear us.他一直在散布谎言企图诽谤我们。
• There's a smear on your shirt.你衬衫上有个污点。

16 consensus   

n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识

参考例句：

• Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
• What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？

17 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。