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And i was really concerned to learn in november of a failure to notify multiple government officials that they were the target of a russian hack iing campaign. at least according to this report, 500 people were targeted in the past year. including officials as high profile as the former head of the defense intelligence agency, the former head of the air force intelligence. many of these people -- >> you have been watching the house judiciary committee and fbi director christopher wray sitting at...

Characterization. very swrinteresting. you have this guy trying to reach out to hackers like cold calling, e-mailing these hackers seeking these deleted e-mails. it seems kind of clumsy. we know the russians were very sew fisted to their hack iing i doesnt necessarily fit the pattern and it also raises the question why they this guy peter smith is now deceased so he cant answer this question except to the extent he already did in the wall street journal story why he was taking this approach. tha...

Well-organized, well-resourced, wide ranging effort, by russia use iing trolls and bots to ampy its messages across social media. these facts are not disputed by any serious person, so this is a yes on the checklist. hack iing and theft of politica information. throughout 2015 and 2016 russian intelligence services and state-sponsored hackers conducted cyber operations against u.s. political targets including state and local election boards penetrating network, probing for vulnerables and steali...

Distraction with the be birther lie and claiming fraudulent voting to take away from the real issue that his administrations culpability in russian hack iing. e we already know some of the senior advisers have misled or lied about their contacts with the russian ambassador. and john mccain pointed out the platform for the republican party convention was changed with a much more favor itable over ukraine. >> theres the issue of russia. what do you think is going to. happen tomorrow, ben? >> i thi...

Donald trump was both coincidental and accidental and the russians didnt know what they were doing to believe that they had no interest in helping one candidate that simply is not credible. >> i understand that. let me play devils advocate here. this happened before with intelligence assessments, which is political figures essentially its a form of confirmation bias. they only see the intelligence that supports a point of view they have going into it. is there any chance here this is confirmatio...

On. this might be working for us at this moment. what if four years from now russia decides the democrats are easier to work with and they will start hack iing. there are so many unknowns and so many negatives that its a slippery slope making a lot of, not just democrats, obviously. but republicans uncomfortable with the idea that trump is open to others meddling in order to further his own message. >> a long-time friend of an adviser and fame from water gate era. >> master of the dark arts of p...

collapse, and black friday gets ugly. very ugly. and the weather may get unpredictable. lets begin in cairo with cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman. ben, youve been covering the pro military rally there. can you compare for me in terms of numbers and demonstrators that rally to what weve been seeing in tahrir square since saturday? that pro military rally was maybe one-tenth as many people as are here at the moment. but they say they represent the silent majority. now...

Internet hack iing operations suspected of originating in china. according to the cables they were googling themselves and unhappy with the criticisms they found. i just returned from stockholm where we met with a prosecutor there. shes leading the charge trying to have julian assange arrested for unrelated sex crimes. hes accused by two women in sweden of rape and sexual molestation, said to have happened in august when he was there for a seminar. we spoke with an attorney for the two women who...