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Said i pressured vladimir putin in the meeting, he said it is overblown in some circles in u.s. even idea he led with his tweet saying we got it out of the way. if it was your mainlyority, you dont get out of the way, say welcome to our computer system. >> you are not a republican. you are welcome in our party. >> bipartisan. >> it is a very bad idea. you dont make bernie madoff chair after he did that. rick: one of president trumps campaign promises was to improve relations with russia. this is...

Which he comes. germans tend to be quite conflicted by the way in their view of russia. there are a lot of germans who want to continue doing business with russia and have absolutely no interest in ground zero of another cold war if you will. and theres sense of a appreciation for the russian people and their capacity for suffering during that. and a little bit of hangover guilt for 40 million soviet citizens killed during the 2 rnd world war. and there are those -- about the soviet system and w...

Former homeland secretary michael chertoff warning foreign intelligence agencies seek large databases on americans for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. malcolm, let me start with you, sir. what exactly is michael chertoff talking about here? >> well, hes talking about the fact that an unsecure, large quantity of data was supposed to be transferred by states to a relatively unsecure computer system being developed by this commission. with it would come an extensive database of essen...

>> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there was a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> right now, if you buy a computer system and you want to solve one of your problems, we immediately throw a big problem right in the middle of you a...

Files an encrypt them on your computer system. it takes out the hard drive. what is similar is that what were talking about is something that has been spread probably via a software update. they think originally it was sent out to companies in ukraine. once they downloaded that, it got into their system, into their clients system and spread to russia and so on and so forth. we have seen it in europe just this afternoon, the maker of nivia said it was still subject to attack and we also saw compa...

A federal investigation is on after the computer system of at least one u.s. nuclear power plant was hacked. the cause of the breach is still unknown. this coming right on the heels of the men massive ransomware attack wreaking havoc on agencies and companies across the globe yesterday. chris trace gallagher is live wh more. >> acknowledging that a number of countries have been hit by this petya ransomware, but so far, dhs has not released any information about u.s. sites being hacked, although ...

Donald trump was going to win the election. that was largely because he gave them their -- his password. so that really wasnt so much a hack as it was just scooping up something that was laying on the ground. i just feel that its very important that the average american understand that this whole idea of russian hacking as if its some amazing thing that the russians are trying to do, here is a news flash, i will guaranty you that u.s. intelligence agencies are trying to hack into every foreign g...

This is by people being willing to come forward. but that will never give us 100% security. reporter: in term the investigation, how will they be looking to see if this is a lone wolf attack or an individual with a network of support? >> well, almost certainly now, they wont know who this person is. they will know perhaps for the investigations in the past, his associates, they will know and be able to get access to his phone, his computer system to find out if hes a lone actor or whether there ...

And were sending a message to the american tourists or the administration is sending a message, hey, we might audit you, keep all your records, were going to be after you. come on, this is not the direction the policy is moving, i think the chamber of commerce of the united states of america said it best, they actually issued a pretty hard hitting statement, and they said that this policy actually seeds business opportunities to american businesse e businesses. chandler china has created the com...

That was never investigation the the. why is that sufficient to base an entire investigation and scandal on? how do we know? why doesnt the fbi look at that computer system? >> it was actually a multifaceted attack. it included social media trolls, the use of fake news, -- >> tucker: that is ridiculous. dont insult our viewers. there is no evidence that trolls moved a single vote. there was a big study on that, and who read that, nobody did. but emails were taken on dnc service. that is really t...