how is the administration dealing with being the richest and most influential country that s quaking at its foundations? even if you don t care about france, this election in france is an earthquake. it s an earthquake even if marine le pen does not win. the two main political parties in that country, their equivalent of democrats and republicans, those two parties have traded the french presidency for 50 years. neither of those parties got a candidate into the runoff this time. they are also coping with russia and vladimir putin playing very aggressively in their politics. vladimir putin is supporting le pen. we have these images of putin and le pen meeting publicly at the kremlin. russian banks loaned her millions of euros. the wall street journal reports le pen s opponent, the centrist emmanuel macron, has been targeted by an intensive, high-level hacking attack.
trapped with the information they had? i think that wikileaks, by virtue of the classified information they had and the fact that the russians knew what kind of classified information was there, that russia used that information as part of the hacking attack on the united states to influence our election. i would not be surprised if the fbi and the investigations that are going on confirmed that kind of collusion. thank you so much, former secretary of defense and former cia director and former u.s. congressmafor many years, leon panetta. thank you, sir, for coming on the program. up next, president trump rerses an obama era rule now allowing states to block funding for planned parenthood. wow. this is hardball, where the action is.
commercial theft or some kind of malicious prank, it was a russian intelligence operation that was designed, among other things, to target journalists and foreign officials. so they charged four russians in conjunction with that hack of yahoo today. now, two of the four people who they indicted were young hackers that were reportedly working with the fsb, with the russian spy service, one is in russia and hasn t been picked up, one is in canada and has been arrested. those are the two outside hackers. the other two named in the indictment were actually russian intelligence agencies. fsb agents. and this is interesting because we re told today this indictment about the yahoo! thing had nothing at all to do with last year s russian intelligence operation and hacking attack against our presidential election and the hillary clinton campaign, they say it had nothing do with that. but check this out. one of the two russian agents,
that was designed, among other things, to target journalists and foreign officials. so they charged four russians in conjunction with that hack of yahoo today. now, two of the four people who they indicted were young hackers that were reportedly working with the fsb, with the russian spy service, one is in russia and hasn t been picked up, one is in canada and has been arrested. those are the two outside hackers. the other two named in the indictment were actually russian intelligence agencies. fsb agents. and this is interesting because we re told today this indictment about the yahoo! thing had nothing at all to do with last year s russian intelligence operation and hacking attack against our presidential election and the hillary clinton campaign, they say it had nothing do with that. but check this out. one of the two russian agents, one of the two fsb agents charged in this indictment today on the yahoo! thing is the same
one of the two fsb agents charged in this indictment today on the yahoo! thing is the same person reportedly arrested in moscow in december and charged with treason for allegedly cooperating with u.s. intelligence and that was an arrest many observers believe was tied to the russian hacking and attack on our election. specifically to the unmasking of that attack. same guy. same fsb guy. arrested in moscow in december, named in this indictment today? right now, the same guy already under arrest for treason in russia, that same guy has turned up in an american indictment on a totally unrelated hacking attack on the united states. hmm? that is, as i say, stick a pin in that because we don t yet know what that means but essentially we are going to sort