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Are they right to fear your power? do you feel as powerful as they think you are? >> i dont feel as powerful as they think we are. but i do understand the sentiment. i do understand how actions by us could generate more fear. and i think the only way we can disarm that is by being a lot more open, explaining in a straightforward way why we make decision, how we make decisions. >> you all are every day taking down bot nets and suspicious accounts and trying to stamp out abuse thats happening ever...

Hoax, hoax. maybe if you did a search of everything he said as president, hoax might come up in the top ten. why did the president ask for this? >> two things are happening. according to my reporting theres pressure from below on these officials. people in the intelligence services were really thrown by helsinki. there was a lot of pressure from veteran republicans and people in security said do something. we have to make a statement. >> you think it was their idea, their pressure, not the presi...

Is that your biggest concern here? >> no. thats a little too bold. it could happen but i would say the odds of it at the present are quite low. i think more likely to see is continued russian intimidation, a build-up of russian forces, efforts to co-op, corrupt these governments in nato, to get them to give up on their values. to take russian investments and blandishments and demoralize the democratic spirit in eastern europe. he could accomplish his goal through what we call hybrid warfare prob...

Tillerson is like waving a white flag theyre going to do t. >> step one is sanctions. how come we arent imposing sanctions. >> why arent we? >> the administration decided it wasnt what we were doing, were doing fine with sanctions. on the one hand steve mnuchin is saying it hasnt worked. theyre coming for us and there isnt anything we can do to stop it. there are things we can do. >> what can we do to stop the bots? >> we know, for example, who is funding these bot nets and which people in russi...

Protect their systems. so if we can anticipate or were aware of a given threat. as you know, weve gone to great lengths this year to work with the intel community to also include otherwise classified information with respect to malware, bot nets. we want to give it to the private sector to proactively defend themselves before they are, in fact, attacked. >> second do you believe the current law imposes any unnecessary constraints on the private sectors ability to deploy active defense? >> i woul...

Pro active services, organizations that are being aggressive in advance of an attack to make themselves better and more able to defend against these attacks. >> shawn, without telling me something that you would have to kill me after you told me, is there a coordinated effort between places like homeland security and the fbi and the cia and the private enterprise in sort of saying hey who has the best tools that we can use together on this front? >> i think the private sector has been helpful in...

Over euphrates. >> thats syria, absolutely. >> theyre a receptive audience. thats different. this is the intel community. weve talked about this before. the russians did this to affect the outcome of the election and theyre still doing those kinds of things without a coordinated empowered american response. >> are you expecting this to happen again in 2018? >> well, yeah, well, its happening now. i mean, we can actually see the russian bot nets and their in r interference with real and not real ...

Intimate based society already. >> tiny astonia with its medieval walls and cobble stone stets is actually a technology power house. it was the first country to allow online voting and its known for being the birth place of skype but now it was under one of the most crippling cyber attacks the world had ever seen. the attackers created so-called bot nets. taking over hundreds of thousands of computers to launch the attack. >> they flooded the inputs of observers. >> its 10s and hundreds of times...

>> it is a dilemma. it would have been seized upon as an attempt to bias the election. there was enormous bias in the election because of the russians. how do you balance that out without further damaging? it is an extremely difficult problem. americans have to understand the extensive methods that the russians used to intervene. it involved 1,000 trolz, fake news, hacking, bot nets to generate fake messages on social media. it was massive. >> what should president trump be doing? >> you need to...

Promote a story hundreds or thousands of times, then that puts it into trending feeds. once its in a trending feed, it takes it on a life of its own. >> reporter: experts who research russias fake news campaigns testified before the senate intelligence committee, explaining how putins government uses an army of trolls, online critics who push their agendas, to confuse and frighten audiences in the west, an idea that played out dramatically on the showtime series "homeland." a troll factory where...