the election may have been a lot more wide ranging than previously believed, not only do they blame a lot of the fake news spread on russian trolls but those testifying today say the russian meddling was in full effect during both the democratic and republican primary. so it looks like hillary clinton wasn t the only overt target here. one of the experts saying that senator marco rubio was an inadvertent target, and this afternoon senator rubio revealing for the first time his staff was the target of repeated hacking attempts by russian ip addresses, first right after rubio announced his reelection bid for senate in july 2016 and one attempt happening as recently as yesterday morning. a second attempt was made, again, against former members of my presidential campaign team who had access to our internal information. again, target from an ip address from an unknown location in russia, and that effort was also unsuccessful. reporter: so senator rubio not disclosing a lot more
would seem. yep. we are going to continue to follow that disturbing story there. ron, thanks. we want to turn back to the big story here. top u.s. intelligence officials testifying before a senate committee on the russian cyber attack. and what america s doing to prevent them, the hearing of course coming as reflect donald trump has been highly critical of the intelligence community s assessment that russia was behind the attacking the hacking attempts aimed at disrupting the november election. want to bring in jean harmon, president ceo of the wilson center, former democratic congresswoman from california. also a former national security official under president george w. bush. good to have. jean, let me start with you in california. senator mccaskell asking the director of national intelligence precisely who
public. it s fascinating to think of a split between obama and clinton factions. there was no good answer for obama in this situation. he s right. if he had weighed in more aggressively against comey and had pushed the intelligence agencies to make a determination of why the russians were doing this woe have been torn apart. could it have been the effect of energizing the trump supporters. he made the right decision as president but, again, if you re a clinton supporter, huge frustration. mentioning podesta op-ed. there were federal investigators who tried to warn the dnc, senior officials at the dnc repeatedly that there were hacking attempts and they didn t heed those warnings or take any steps to do anything about that until months later. there s culpability on multiple fronts. the overall, what we re past the election, donald trump will be president and i think that, you know, nobody is trying to push back on that. russia is still attempting to
would have to had to the orders on what to do with the stolen e-mails. in recent weeks, they have collected more evidence including from human sources to back up their assessments first made in october that only the most senior members could have ordered the operation. and the hacking hasn t stopped. law enforcement sources tell cnn that the fbi is now investigating hacking attempts after the election targeting clinton campaign staffers. a campaign official tells cnn that they received security notices as recently as last week indicating attempts to get into their private e-mail accounts. now, officials say that despite the russian expectations of better relations with the incoming trump administration, they expect that the russian hacking activity is going to continue largely unabated. chris? evan, thank you very much. appreciate it. we know you ll stay on this story. president obama now vowing to fight back against russia. why now? what not sooner? what is the real truth about th
russian spy agencies deployed sophisticated hacking tools the kind by the nsa to break into organizations in the past year. u.s. officials tell cnn that this is part of the reason why intelligence officials are believed persistently that russian president vladimir putin ordered the information campaign that targeted the presidential campaign. investigators haven t found evidence directly linking back to putin but officials believe because of the nature of the operation, he would have had to give the orders on what to do with the stolen e-mails. intelligence agencies have collected more evidence, including from human sources to back up these assessments. they first made in october that only the most senior members of the russian government could have ordered this operation. and hacking hasn t stopped. law enforcement sources tell cnn that the fbi is now investigating hacking attempts after the election targeting clinton campaign staffers. campaign officials tell cnn that they recently