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Weve seen russia cyber warfare playing out already in this election. there have been reports of hacking efforts. theres been a ton of russian generated and russian amplified fake news about macron in particular which marie le pen and her party and supporters have trud to spend themselves and capitalize on just like the trump campaign did when it came to russia generated fake news about hillary clinton. but that -- weve been watching that unfoeltd over the course of this french campaign, through ...

Preference in this election, we have seen evidence of what we now recognize as russian information operations designed to influence french voters in their choice in that election. weve seen russian cyberwarfare playing out already in this election. there have been reports of hacking efforts. theres been a ton of russian generated and russian-amplified fake news about macron in particular which marie le pen and her party and supporters have tried to spread themselves and capitalize on just like t...

Slap in the face specifically to the freedom caucus members. and you know, theres a point where youve got to start trusting what your eyes are telling you and just wake up to reality that theres some serious problems here. even if he has an r after his name, maybe we should ask questions. bipartisan select committee would be a very welcome antidote at this point. >> michael steele you also had targeting of republicans during the presidential campaign. it wasnt used the way it was used against hi...

>> when i consider what senator franken asked sessions at that late moment that that story just come out is a got what question. >> it was not, sir. >> it was. >> up next. we will show you what rosenstein said about appointing an outsider to investigate russia. plus a massive trove of documents posted by wikileaks. it purports to detail secrets about the hacking efforts, including details about using smart tvs to spy on encrypted phone apps. what intelligence officials are saying, thats coming u...

Theres speaker paul ryan there. speaker ryan waiting on vice president joe biden literally bringing the box of votes in, there we have it right there on cue for us. they will be counting those votes. this is for all practical intents and purposes a formality but vice president biden joining speaker paul ryan any moment now for the final count of the electoral votes. face-off, at this moment top intelligence officials briefing president-elect donald trump behind closed doors, at trump tower. th...

>> that report refers to a forthcoming analysis by the intelligence community of president obama on russian hacking efforts. last week president-elect trump said he had also requested a briefing for today on that investigation but then yesterday he tweeted, the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking was delayed until friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange. later this week incoming vice president mike pence indicate that had the transition team is expected to a...

Were paying protesters to be violent? $1,500. did you see another one, another one came in today, this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> donald trump loved his wikileaks during the campaign. you probably saw it if you tuned in here and saw any of donald trumps speeches towards the end of the campaign. he aggressively used the content of those stolen e-mails released by wikileaks in his speeches to supporters in order to get them to believe him and to not trust hillary clinton. those comment...

State, presumably a target of their hacking efforts. >> yeah, i think theyre unlikely to sort of send us a message and say, hey, we hacked into hillarys e-mails. so, i dont think theyre going to let us know. its really the fact that she did not use appropriate caution in protecting that and she didnt obey her own rules. one of the greatest bits of hypocrisy was that she let go one of the ambassadors that worked for her because that ambassador had a private server. so, i think its the height of h...

She was, after all, secretary of state, presumably a target of their hacking efforts. >> yeah, i think theyre unlikely to sort of send us a message and say, hey, we hacked into hillarys e-mails. so, i dont think theyre going to let us know. its really the fact that she did not use appropriate caution in protecting that and she didnt obey her own rules. one of the greatest bits of hypocrisy was that she let go one of the ambassadors that worked for her because that ambassador had a private server...

Know now that we didnt already know? >> the report, of course, there are basically two. theres the majority report from the republicans and the minority report from the democrats. the majority report says it found no evidence of collusion between trump campaign officials and the russian government. no evidence that donald trumps business dealings before the election with the russians facilitating any kind of collusion. no suggestion that anyone was involved in the hack of the democratic clinton ...