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Impacts are or whether there are impacts, but were working through it very aggressively. >> reporter: the attack is part of a broader and ongoing hacking campaign exploiting a vul vulnerability in a program called move it. the company behind the software says they are working to fix vulnerabilities in their code. >> most of the time the security people in organizations are very technical people. incredibly smart people. unfortunately, what i find is they sometimes forget about that human element...

President. i think the sense, even there was divides in his own team about the decision to move forward with this meeting, the sense from the president and his top advisers was, this relationship is at a point right now where you cant hurt it by sitting down with president putin, particularly at this early stage. particularly given just how dramatically different the approach is than from his predecessor. laying out the areas we have been talking about over the course of the last several days, w...

Ego cant handle the fact he lost the national popular vote, so he makes these false allegations, that by the way, dishonor and disrespect the state elections officials across the country, local elections officials across the country, and the thousands upon thousands of volunteers who give of their time to help administer elections with integrity. but i think we know why he continues to do it. because for him, it serves as a distraction. distraction of his chaos coming out of the white house on a...

The state level and warnings from our intelligence committee further attempts of sabotage of our election. what are you doing about that? >> we will not accept suppression and illegal activities against voters. so if you have any, id appreciate you sending it to me. >> we absolutely will. >> we will make sure its investigated by career attorneys in our civil rights division. >> and on cybersecurity side, what are you doing for protecting us from another hacking of election to in filtrate with po...

Intelligence community, there will be further attempts at cyber sabotage of our elections. what you consider the most serious threat to our voting rights? >> we will not accept suppression and illegal activity against voters. if you have anything i would appreciate you sending it to me. we will make sure it is investigated by career attorneys and civil rights division spirit >> on the cybersecurity side, what are you doing to protect us from another hacking of our election attempt to infiltrate ...

Theres a price to pay for this behavior. that, in fact, its not in your best interest. >> what should that price be? >> its a wide range of things. theres no one set. if were looking for the perfect solution, there isnt one. this will be a variety of incremental solutions and efforts that are going to play out over time. theres no one single approach here. >> and your point about manipulating data. about a month ago i chaired a hearing on artificial intelligence and our growing economys growing ...