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Speaking on behalf of the president that he believes russian trolls, russian cyber warfare activists were engaged in trying to influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential election? >> yes, he has said that. getting to those comments that you just mentioned, hes also affirming a fact that the cyber problem is not simply a russian problem. there are other malicious cyber actors, including north korea, for one, and that cyber threats are not just these influence operations. the cyber threats, th...

Have taken place? we talk about every day. >> reporter: there are political operatives and officials in the government who know what to avoid around president trump, so perhaps and spicer has been focused more on the agenda and we get the sense anything related to russia is an uncomfortable topic in the white house. but at the hearing with jeh johnson who served as president obamas homeland security chief. he talked about a frustration he had there wasnt a sense of greater outrage in real time i...

Discover, certainly in the discover through intelligence information. most important to me, michael, was the front end of that comment which turned this issue into a larger globe wal, we got a cyber problem issue. i freely concede we have a cyber problem. that was not the issue yesterday. the point of that briefing yesterday, michael, was we got a russia problem. and the trump transition team tried to get off the x from that question by simply pushing it over here and saying we got to do better ...

The recent russian attacks are one part of a much bigger cyber problem. russian cyber attacks have targeted the white house, the joint staff, the state department, our critical infrastructure. chinese cyber attacks have reportedly targeted nsa, department of state and commerce, congressional offices, military labs, the naval war college and u.s. businesses including major defense contractors. most recently, china compromised over 20 million background investigations at the office of personnel ma...

Cyber problem. russian cyberattacks have targeted the white house, the joint staff, the state department, our critical infrastructure, chinese cyberattacks have reportedly targeted nsa, the department of state and commerce, congressional offices, military labs, naval war college and u.s. businesses including major defense contractors. most recently, china compromised over 20 million background investigations at the office of personnel management. iran has used cyber tools to attack the u.s. navy...

Over time, the center of power shrank to a very small group around the president. do you see evidence that this will be a true team of rivals in the way that it operates? >> i think weve got all kinds of people in this cabinet. some of them about to fall off the idealogical ledge and others more mainstream. but the other thing in this particular appointment is we have a terrible cyber problem, as our earlier segment just indicated. not just at our electoral process. free elections in the united ...

Creation of a committee to investigate russian interference into the election. in a letter to mitch mcconnell, john mccain, schumer and reed and graham wrote we believe it is just fwieed about the extraordinary scope and scale of the cyber problem. democrats and republicans must work together and across the jurisdictional lines of the congress to address this unique challenge, end quote. the fbi and the cia say the hacking was not just to determine the u.s. electoral process, but to help preside...

Cummings, adam schiff, this investigation is bipartisan into what the russians are doing, if theyre in our system. not because i think the election outcome is going to change, it is not. we need to know if they were some way tampering. we need to know how much information we have just like china and north korea. a lot of people want our stuff. bill: perhaps i may rewind and remind all of this from two months ago. the commander-in-chief said the following. >> there is no serious person out there ...

Certainly with me as an intelligence officer. thats just not anything we can discover, certainly not discover through intelligence information. but most important to me, michael, was the front end of that comment which turned this issue into a larger global, we have a cyber problem issue. i concede we have a cyber problem, but that was not the issue yesterday. the point of that briefing yesterday, michael, was we have a russia problem. and the trump transition team tried to get off the x from th...

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