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Effectiveness of these russian tactics was these pages would attempt to imitator mirror the talking.and act as a bait and switch. for instance, black lives matter in 2016. they would shift their talking points to be critical of hillary clinton in an attempt to diminish the turnout of a key part of her base. the question ahead of the mid-term elect, when you have 435 congressional race, more than 30 senate races, are these ads effective of a tactic, to affect specific parties and candidates the s...

The protection of this election. and the hacking attempt, or the phishing attempt on senator claire mccaskill is an example that russia doesnt concern themselves with what were going to do. >> what about the president threatening to veto the security clearances and former intel officers who criticized his response to russian interference. whats your reaction to that? >> its just another example of the politics of personal destruction that president trump plays by. this is extraordinary. no one h...

Whether or not that happened to them this past year. we started seeing statements coming in until god bless wisconsin, the wisconsin statement finally explains what else was going on. in part, quote, "wisconsin is notified of russian hacking attempt." >> the state were free to disclose information. and some of them did. not all but some of them. homeland security knew by june that 21 states had been targeted by russian hackers during the election. they knew that and they announced that they knew...

With me. philip, can i get you on the record on the presidents response tonight to your papers blockbuster story about the russia hacking attempt. he basically said now we know that obama knew and didnt do anything. doesnt that just draw attention to the fact that hes done even less? >> yeah. two things come to mind. one is, if obama didnt do anything, what is trump doing? not really much at all. the other thing is, theres a lot of new information in that story, a breathtaking story, really. we ...

About their intentions? >> well, we already knew that there was a hacking campaign ordered from the very top, ordered from the kremlin, from putins office. it shows how sophisticated these attacks are and also that they will try to get in to the voting booth. so it is a cautionary tale for the next round of u.s. elections. >> we heard james comey say during his testimony that were not doing enough to respond to the russia hacking attempt. kimberly dozier, thank you so much for the time. >> thank...

Was the victim of the hacking attempt that dumped thousands of internal documents, some including fake news on a file sharing late friday. leland: yeah. and these election results could really change the u.s. relationship with natoment back at 3 p.m. with more news as the results come in. chris: im chris wallace. president trump takes a victory lap after house republicans vote to reveal key parts of obamacare. but will it ever become law? ♪ ♪ >> this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare, m...

What you are hearing from the trump transition team and the senior transition official is that yes, they do acknowledge that russia is one of the actors involved in cyber hacking on the united states on the american political system. theyre not going as far as to accept, you know, hook, line and sinker everything that the intelligence community is saying about vladimir putin being behind this hacking attempt to throw the election to donald trump. what i did hear from a senior transition official...

How do you respond to a sieker attack. the problem has been, whether the pentagon or anyone else looking at cyber warfare, the problem is you have to get attribution, figure out the point of origin. then you have to figure out what is an appropriate response. and the concern is that you know, responding in cyberspace could escalate very quickly. now, i agree with tom, i think the interesting -- there are so many layers here -- its interesting that the signature or the fingerprints left supposedl...

Willing to come and hit us right in the face, and we know exactly who it is, and they know exactly who it is, and theyve found it to be a very effective part of their strategy. ultimately, i think their goal, i dont know whether it was to swing the election one way or the other, but the goal was to increase the level of infighting and divisiveness in our country, and the more they can force us to fight internally, the less effective we will be against them. so i think we need to think about what...

Implement them. and i think talking to president putin in september after the attack was a little too late. >> the hacking attempt has been made public in the united states. so if we had some kind of cyber attack against russia that was successful, would they make public what they did? >> it depends on what they did. in my estimation, no, we would not make it public, and it would be to our advantage to leave it somewhat ambiguous, if we did elect to do something and found it to be effective, wed...