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Has direct or ray said, this is rampant fast and we cannot permit this to happen in the international system. mike: can you speak more about the benefits chinese have gotten in terms of what theyve learned from hacking american innovations? >> yeah, absolutely. direct or ray was really clear about this. china had been spearfishing and hacking at going after all the hard work about american innovation. for example, china says they will unveil a stealth bomber sometime next year. if they do that, ...

About a contact between russians and some american journalist. that i had not been familiar with, and it will be interesting to tease out who that might be and what went on there. but it is certainly accurate to say, as your question implies, that there is a tremendous amount of smoke indicating that there was some sort of trump campaign knowledge or involvement with this. but criminal cases are not built on smoke. theyre built on fire. certainly in this indictment, there is no even allegation, ...

For any intelligence service i assume they would have to have local knowledge. just like the u.s. in iraq would have to have -- its better to have locals giving information. >> absolutely. at this point in the campaign we now know that the fbi notified the dnc about the hacking activity that occurred for almost 17 months prior to this meeting in june. so the russians have been gathering book and what they consider to be compromising material on the candidates chlts they have been hacking into th...

Headquarters in moscow doesnt make sense. it would have relied on folks on the ground here in the united states. >> do you agree with that. whether its american citizens or russian. or espionage intelligence officials from russia on the ground here that local knowledge would be key. for any intelligence service i assume they would have to have local knowledge. just like the u.s. in iraq would have to have -- its better to have locals giving information. >> absolutely. at this point in the campai...

Go so well. it was there where he was kind of bragging about the fact that he kind of fired james comey and the heat was off of him. well see how the meeting with vladimir putin goes. the last time president trump saw putin he told him to get out of the u.s. elections. >> criticism that president obama has been receiving lately -- even though in early august he was told by the cia, the russians were interfering at the personal instruction of putin, his response was restrained. >> well, you know,...

The computer code, the road map on how to conduct this kind of hacking activity. and officials tonight,ful wou w that would be a road map to disaster. >> thank you. the white house says the president is very concerned about this apparent cia breach aenthough as a candidate mr. trump said he loves wikileaks for posting information about hillary clintons campaign. sean spicer was asked about that. >> there is a big difference between disclosing john podestas gmail accounts about a back and forth i...

Back now live on msnbc. the director of national intelligence james clapper and fbi director james comey briefed the house intelligence committee this morning on russias hacking activity in this country. we bring in congressman joaquin castro, a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman castro thank you for being here. i want to get your take -- >> thanks for having me. >> -- from this mornings briefing. theres been significant frustration, a lot of it directed at the intelligence ...

Early 2016, so the question they had inside the transition is if it began in late 2015, early 2016, how is there this motive to help donald trump get elected president? now, there is an acknowledgment inside the transition after this meeting because they say they did receive new information at this meeting they did not have before that there was an intent through this hacking activity to harm and damage hillary clintons candidacy. they are not disputing that according to the senior transition of...

That russia indeed and vladimir putin was behind the hacking in the election season. some of the things they are looking at, officials are telling us, are, in fact, those digital fingerprints. even able to track, perhaps, the key boards that were used with the alphabet in russia to engage in this hacking activity and those hacking tools are said to be so sophisticated, they mimic the kinds that the national security agency has. thats a part of the u.s. government engages in cyberactivity. not th...

President says he handled the russian hack back in october. hes accused the media of amplifying it and said he told mr. putin back then to "cut it out." russia is denying any hacking activity and says if it happened, you have to prove it. well, if we were aware of russias hacks months ago, why is the white house just now expressing huge outrage about in and saying that russia tried to influence the outcome of our presidential election? >> president putin -- thats humorous. i think that president...