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Trump made that request directly to the russians when he said during a news conference, russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. fast-forward again, labor day weekend. peter w. smith a gop operative told the "journal" he began seeking e-mails, he believed to be stolen from clintons private server from several hacker groups. including two he determined were russian. smith was found dead of apparent suicide weeks after he talked with the "journal."...

Michael flynn, implying is important here. at the time, flynn was a national security advisor to the trump campaign. >> he hired a team of people and they went out looking to see if they could find any hackers, they identified five groups, of which two of those hacker groups were determined to be russian, they started to see if they could get the emails. >> jon: is an interesting but sometimes confusing story, i would encourage you to read it if you havent yet. joining us now, former u.s. army i...

30,000 emails that she deleted from her server that were meant to be personal because he suspected there might be some state department emails and there. >> jon: he put the word out to computer hacker forums, if youve got these emails, we would love to have them. >> thats right. he hired a team of people including russian speakers and experts and they went out to see if they could find any hackers who had found these emails are claimed to have these emails. they identified five groups of which t...

Washington. >> in the summer of 2015 you have the initial intrusion into the dnc from kosovo. >> reporter: the anatomy of a cyberattack that shifted the worlds view of the russian threat. this is the washington d.c. office of die me try povoch, who was hired by the democratic national committee. >> we were brought in in may. thats when we discovered that fancy bear and kozi bear were inside. >> two separate hacker groups, both believed to be connect canned to russian intelligence. russia repeate...

Our coverage this morning. coming up, the escalating social media battle between hacker groups and isis. posts mocking the terror group are popping up on the web today. and now these activists are taking on donald trump. plus, a jury finds a former oklahoma city police officer guilty on 18 counts, including rape and sexual battery. why many of the victims, all african-american women, did nothing anyone would ever believe them. well bring you the latest next as well as trying to get the audio...

Completely with social media, you have to identify every one of their channels, everybodys whos using it. even though you stop one, they start another one right after that. its a little more difficult than that. its not impossible to do it the same way that companies came together to address child porn being traded over the internet is similar to the approach they need to take to this. they need to get people involved. you have splinter groups that are out there taking the fight to the enemy and...

Prosecutor for cyber crimes. what would have been more dangerous as far as the security of her e-mails? we know she did use those private e-mail servers for her official government business as well. was that more vulnerable than the state department official e-mail accounts? >> the problem with using a previous e-mail account and a home brew network is its got to be constantly monitored. its going to be under attack from other governments, from hacker groups and all kinds of different groups. yo...

Working with hacker groups. >> so the rogue employee maybe wanted the u.s. government to believe that north korea was to blame? >> remember that the original demands that were made of sony had nothing to do with this movie "the interview." they all related to things like pay grades and the bias between how much women were paid and other things. there was only after a couple communications that they even mentioned north korea at all and made it try to look like it was north korea. so these invest...

The quote. reckless and words indeed like a monkey in a tropical forest. you can see they dont hold back with their own propaganda. >> no admission they were behind the hacking attacks on sony. what are they saying about their internet problems in north korea? >> reporter: well they blame the united states for the instability of their internet. you heard senator graham that china is somehow involved. there is a connection that north korea relies on china for internet. that is the case. we have s...

Things that can be done. if you look at whats happened to hacks in the united states, those same attacks could be launched against other countries and other organizations. so when you look at the possibility of a hacker collective that has attacked the united states, we can return the same kind of attacks back toward them to eliminate their capabilities of fighting a cyberwar. >> you know, i go back to this is the united states of america. and as such we are accustomed to having the strongest mi...