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A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Reporter good morning, martin. Thats right, President Trump is spending the week at new jersey amid the stwirl of Unanswered Questions surrounding that now infamous meeting at trump tower and his son and a russian lawyer, leaving the twhous yesterday, President Trump refused to take questions of his former Attorney Michael Cohen that cohen had advanced knowledge. Trump and his legal team denied. They say trump is privately furious a...

Being investigated for attempted hacking into the states voter registration system. its an inflammatory accusation the democrats deny. but cnn reviewed the e-mails, and it does not appear to implicate the state democratic party for hacking in any way. instead, it seems to be another red flag about cyber security in georgia. an earlier warning led to a federal lawsuit, leading to a 2015 breach that exposed six million voting records. kemps office defended this as nothing more than website houseke...

Well, the fbi is investigating georgia democrats over report of attempted hacking of states voter regular city starting with e-mail from volunteer to the partys voter protection direct o mentioning hacking software well, the probe launched by secretary of state brian kemp who is locked locked in tight rr governor, we showed you the numbers with abrams, no data compromised. democrats called the whole thing a political stunt. and former barack obama making his last-minute case for democrats by tak...

Produce jobs while democrats produce mobs. >> youve seen it, antifa, they take helmet off and they take the armed bands, you see the little arms, the little arms, tough guys, you know, they are swinging clubs viciously, they couldnt care less who they hit, these are bad people. rob: all right, the president warning if the radical resistance takes power it will move to reverse americas progress. fbi investigating georgia democrats over reports of attempted hacking of the states voter registry all...

National top officials are comparing the total state of danger to the months before the 9-11 attacks. >> im here to say the warning lights are here again. today the digital infrastructure u structure that serves this country is literally under attack. >> reporter: they oversee the countrys defense on the voting structure. on offense, its less clear with the nsa, fbi and military taking roles. >> we need more connective tissue, between people doing law enforcement and people charged with protecti...

Out a way, were ut if its in the public domain and republicans say we should have to use it, democrats saying, no. cant use that. >> thats what happened in the 2016 campaign with the podesta e-mails. flooded out and the publics fear. >> 2016 campaign one instance i believe on the debate stage a candidate specifically referenced -- not the presidents, congressional. specifically referenced hacked materials. that would have been a step too far in the current discussions that theyre talking about. ...

Something thats been lost a little bit as we talked about this idea of foreign assistance to a campaign which is a crime, but its also a crime for someone, even someone who has been selected for office but not yet been installed to either solicit or to accept an offer of assistance from someone in exchange for doing certain kinds of acts. and heres where it gets interesting. one of those acts that would support a bribery charge would be colluding in a fraud against the united states. and right n...

By russian hacking attempts. dont put it in your ads. dont spend money pushing a claim that was hacked? >> speaking, before i get to that question, speaking of hacking. still stuns me. last week, week before, the republicans voted down a bill that would have added additional money to protect our voting apparatus. talking about hacking into peoples e-mails. actually said, no, no. were not going to spend money to make sure the process of 2018 and 20 going forward is protected. the same technology....

This came after we had known that russia had meddled in the election. its sometng the pdent has been reluctant, bly, to talk about and to acknowledge. and so this, you know, was part of -- >> these were the only tangible actions taken since the attempted hacking. >> exactly. this was part of the sanctions package, as well. so the fact that its returned in this manner, as the president has not acknowledged the extent to which russia meddled, and will continue as people have testified on these com...

The documents are heavily redacted and dont appear to shed new light on the case. lets turn to business headlines, where reports are surfacing russia is in the process of ridding its government offices of microsoft software. this comes as microsoft accuses russian hackers of exploiting a recently discovered windows security flaw. cnbcs jeff cutmore joins us from london. this is kind of a hard thing to do, to stop using microsoft software. its sort of the way everybody in the world does busines...