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Opening statement. well see. we all hope the president does well in this. >> well, blinking red is the terminology used by u.s. intelligence prior to 9/11. the fact they are reusing that term should cause concern to everybody. but its interesting, you talk about ronald reagan calling the soviet union an evil empire and that sending shudders, if anything the presidents tweets today didnt send shudders to the russian foreign minister. they retweeted and said yeah, we agree, it is -- was americas f...

In fact, one of the reasons why putin wants the summit so badly because he wants to try to find a way to cooperate with the united states and show the rest of the world that he and the united states are moving forward. >> theres a tweet from one year ago this month i want to put up from president trump, after he met with putin, not in a summit but in a different event. putin and i discussed forming an inpen trabl cyber security unit so election hacking and many other negative things will be guar...

justice. how concerned should americans be right now about russia continuing to interfere in u.s. elections? is this administration at the highest levels doing enough? >> thanks, anderson. we should be very concerned. when we speak about the timing of this indictment, everyones focused on the trump/putin meeting, but one interesting aspect is that just hours after the indictment was issued, the head of u.s. intelligence gave a public speech in which he talked about the cyber threat were facin...

President putin? >> if i recall correctly, there was even a suggestion that the two countries be would work together on cybersecurity, again russia, the finger has been pointed squarely at russia for interfering in u.s. elections. thanks for the reporting and well keep in touch with you if. lets cross to get perspective with amy pope. amy, the u.s. and americas program at chatham house, also a former member of the security council under president obama. its good to have you on the show. lets tal...

Even though he has the evidence now because we know exactly what the russians are going to do. theyre already trying to push it off, say no, its not true, it is a political scheme. >> nic robertson for us, thank you. president trump blames president obama for the russian meddling. director of national intelligence dan coats says threat of cyber meddling from russia isnt over. >> it was in months prior to september, 2001 when according to then cia director george tenet the system was blinking r...

A critical moment. listen. >> it was in the months prior to september 2001 when according to then cia director george tenant the system was blinking red. and here we are two decades -- nearly two decades later and im here to say the warning lights are blinking red again. >> josh, he believes foreign adversaries, china, iran, north korea and especially russia are at work every day to penetrate americas digital infrastructure. should we be assured knowing coats is on it? >> there are a lot of seri...

Including four people arrested in a terrorism plot by authorities preventing some kind of attack here. so to a certain degree the system is blinking red. theres concern about all those hundreds and hundreds of british extremists who traveled to syria and iraq and are coming back now in increasing numbers. trained killers coming back to british shores. thanks one al all. our politics lead. president trump landed in rome this afternoon where hell meet with the pope in vatican city, but the deadly ...

Sharing intelligence in real time. and this has really resulted in the uk thwarting plot after plot since 9/11, there really have not been a large number of plots that have got through. the once that have are the london bombings, of course, back in 2005, and more recently, that attack on westminster bridge which resulted in four people including a policeman being killed. but theyve had a remarkably high success rate. the problem is the threat is as big as it has ever been when it comes to islami...

Come out of donald trump. he was doing something different, responding to an opponent. his instinct, donald trump is to go at him. he said he wanted to be nice but he went at him with the obvious. your brother was in office at the time. its on him. >> im suggesting theres substance here that we can hash out, the pdb of august 6th, george tenet saying the community was blinking red. many were afraid to go after it. by the way, if it were an issue that could sell to a general election, you think j...

Necessary and how invasive should it be? and how much citizen liberty is granted by the constitution and how much of what government calls necessary to keep us safe is actually an unnecessary power grab. after 9/11 tensions were so high the american intelligence community was dramatically reshaped. but this years snowden revelations proved to some, at least one federal judge, that our intelligence apparatus has grown out of control. for a look at the state of our intelligence community lets brin...