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Im Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Right now, more news with hallie jacks jackson. Love that one. Chris jansing, thank you, my friend. Hallie jackson in washington, where this morning, it is all about the power of the presidency. Just how much control does donald trump really have, or really thinks he has, over our democracy . His new interview sending a shiver through the Justice Department. The president saying he could run the Special Counsel investigation if he wanted to. Yes, the inve...

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>> were moving along. were working along. were also dealing with foreign countries that do have a problem. i must tell you, i got called today from two very good allies saying please can we talk. it is not as simple as all that. we have to respect their wishes. it will all come out. >> the white house did not immediately say which allies the president spoken with. trump supporters claim without proof the fbi wrongfully obtained the warrant for carter page and is hiding information that could dis...

Im chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle. right now, more news with hallie jacks jackson. >> love that one. chris jansing, thank you, my friend. hallie jackson in washington, where this morning, it is all about the power of the presidency. just how much control does donald trump really have, or really thinks he has, over our democracy? his new interview sending a shiver through the justice department. the president saying he could run the special counsel investigation if he wanted to. yes, the in...

Lawyer into the counsels office, generating speculation that he is grooming fled to take over his position as white house counsel. the fact that this is the person who talked to mueller for 30 hours. >> 30 hours. >> given that context is not something that should be comforting for the president. >> you can watch this show for 30 minutes. i ho -- hours. i hope you do. but with the special counsel, it is probably different. thank you. a top senator, democratic senator, is talking about the white...

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Going after the weakest link. i think the russian gru is capitalizing on these personal accounts and how people depend on them. >> this was something that was broken in "the daily beast" and they report in august of 2017 around the time of the hack attempt, trump traveled to missouri and chided mccaskill telling the crowd to vote her out of office. some wonder whether theres a little parallel going on, this is two years ago to the day in florida then candidate trump said this. take a look. >> ru...

Today, were under cyberattack from kim jong un, putin or a kid in his moms basement or something. it wasnt immediately known who was behind the attack. but "the times of london" reports that russian hackers have been selling e-mail addresses and passwords of senior british government officials. >> we know that our public services are attacked. so its not at all surprising that there should be an attempt to hack into parliamentary e-mails. >> reporter: the suspected goal of such an effort? >> i b...

Of those addresses in which hacking attempts had been made, at least some of those 17 definitively were computers in russia. now, what the hack attempt was there was not on computer systems that were used to tabulate the vote, but if you think about it, that doesnt necessarily matter. right? that specific doesnt matter, right? these particular hacking attempts in dallas county, they were apparently going after the voter file, the data base of registered voters. in dallas county, thats over 1 mil...

Administ administer said they followed that. to see if they had been hit by any of those ip addresses on that list of 600 sent out by homeland security, they got 17 hits. 17 ip addresses made an effort to attack the dallas county voter roles. they worked with federal authorities. they told the county at least 17 of those addresses in which hacking attempts had been made, at least some of those 17 definitively were computers in russia. now, what the hack attempt was there was not on computer syst...