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Its an extremely difficult thing to check. >> the russians allegedly focused their attack on a particularly weak target. the democratic national committee. >> you could have broken into the dnc with a can opener. this took less work to get into the dncs computer system than it took the watergate burglars to get into the dnc offices back during the nixon campaign. >> more than 1,900 e-mails released. >> in the middle of a tight race, embarrassing e-mails mysteriously leaked from the clinton campa...

This took less work to get into the dncs computer system than it took the watergate burglars to get into the dnc offices back during the nixon campaign. >> more than 1900 e-mails released. >> in the middle of a tight race, embarrassing e-mails mysteriously leaked from the clinton campaign were all over the news. >> wikileaks has announced -- >> the clinton pacampaign knows- >> donald trump was delighted by clintons misfortunes. >> russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 ...

But so far its not at all clear that theyll be able to connect the dots. joining me now, fare szaria and the former ambassador to russia. good to see both of you. the connections between the president, his campaigns and russia, so far there seems to are a lot of smoke but no fire. and this latest example is the connection between this bank in russia and a trump, you know, computer system somehow or server. but is all this just noise? >> you know, youre exactly right. so far its smoke mostly smok...

Building in moscow, that are trying to influence not just our election, but elections all over the world. senator mccain and graham and i at end of the year spent a week in the baltics and ukraine and georgia, the stories we heard here were very similar to what the russians have done in america. hacking into lithuanian parliament members accounts, just when theyve invited members of the ukrainian parliament to their country. shutting down the computer system in iowa stone ya after they had the a...

For it and everybody can take a chill pill. greg, i was hearing what he was saying and then im hearing what his ranking minority member is saying and what nancy pelosi is saying and republicans are saying and democrats are saying. theyre saying jump on it because you have to remove all doubt. what do you think? >> this seems to be a dubious story in search of a crime. yes, its a crime to hack a computer system. there was no evidence that trump his campaign attempted to. but you have to talk abou...

Classified briefing from fbi director james comey. over the weekend, reuters reported the fbi is pursuing three separate probes into russias hacking of the dnc and john podestas server. now, one, trying to identify the people behind breaches of the democratic national committees computer system, another who tried to posted e-mails stolen from john podestas account and a third pursuing leads from informants and foreign communications intercepts. that comes amid mounting questions about whether th...

Smart as he is. >> they arent friendly except for playing pac man. >> a small snag in computer marketing is called techno phobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them wha they call user-friendly. >> isnt tha 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 o...

>> reporter: well, good morning. a lot of excitement here. as you know, 13 seconds before ignition yesterday, there was a problem on the falcon 9 rocket and even though the computer system said that everything could be a go, elon musk hit the button and decided to stop everything to make sure that this act waiter that steers the rocket that showed a problem could be fixed because they knew they had a window today and we are in the countdown mode. space-x believes everything is on track for the l...

>> on the travel ban, would you accept that that was a good example of the smooth running of government. >> i do. i know who you are. just wait. let me tell you about the travel ban. we had a very smooth roll out of the travel ban. we had a bad court. we had a bad decision. a court had been overturned and may be wrong, but i think its 80% of the time. a lot. we will keep going with the decision and put in a new executive order next week sometime. we had a bad decision. thats the only thing that ...

Were going to keep going with the decision, were going to put in a new executive order next week sometime. but we had a bad decision. thats the only thing that was wrong with the travel ban. you had delta with a massive problem with their computer system at the airports. you had some people that were put out there, brought by very nice busses and they were put out at various locations, despite that, the only problem that we had is we had a bad court. we had a court that gave us what i consider t...