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Your column. you wrote a fascinating piece about how the obama administration basically just sat on this issue of russian meddling until hoops. donald trump won. >> long before the 2016 election, russia was engaged in widespread cyber aggression against the united states. the president at the time, barack obama, and all of his intelligent chiefs, john brennan at the ca, james clapper at national intelligence, james comey and his predecessor robert mueller at the fbi, they were all well aware tha...

>> back to the point about the grandmothers. okay, karen, legal director efor the national immigration center, thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much, keir. a new twist in the ongoing russia probe raising questions about the actions of former trump national security adviser mike flynn during last years campaign. the "wall street journal" reports republican operative peter smith tried to gain access to the e-mails he believed were stolen from hillary clintons private server. the journal re...

Democratic strategist, i want to start and in school, whhow do w know what we know? we know a lot of why russia were behind it. donald trump however said we dont know, ron, we just dont know. >> well, these two hacking organizations within russians known as apt, 28 and 29 advance persistent threats. when they engage in this type of a pattern, it is obvious of the trade craft thats been used and these hacking groups are using and all the signs were reflected of the successful attempt of the dnc a...

The hackers that work for these organizations. so i.t. professionals can know what to look for if they see activity with these hacking groups. the problem with this is that you publish this information, declassify this, it becomes publicly known and those spy services can simply change their operations. theyll change their tactics so we expect thats whats going to happen in the next few days. >> and one has to wonder if youre going that now and this has been common knowledge in the intelligence ...

Quickly take us back to earlier this fall. nbc news reported this hacking was going on, that it was believed to have a russian government element to it, and we said that individuals in hacking groups were doing the actual hacking, but then it was directed by the russian intelligence and the gru, and weve seen all of that come to bear today. so when we got the names just a while ago, we started running them through the various databases and talked to who he started to talk to, and alexsey belan h...

Youth and theres something going wrong, where do we go to get that outside point of view? so its very challenging and difficult. this is a new type of movement that were not really comprehending. its being run through computers, social media, other venues that we didnt understand before. so there needs to be education and awareness there for the parents and the support for them to recognize what theyre saying and where they can go for that help. >> cnns poppy harlow speaking with christiane boud...

Behind this? >> very good question. these hacking groups live in secrecy and they are very good at it. this particular group has been around for a while and they have gone undetected or at least nobody has caught them. i would imagine they are going to remain underground for a while, ashleigh. >> im very sorry for your christmas being disrupted and the gaming. you are one of those millions. all of those grownups that got the games and couldnt play. dan simon, happy new years. nice to see you. >>...

Sent to those employees says, quote, what we have done so far is only a small part of our further plan. please sign your name to object below if you dont want to suffer damage. if you dont, not only you, but your family will be in danger. some computer experts suspect north korea may be trying to attack sony because of an upcoming sony movie, a comedy that depicts an assassination attempt on north korean leader kim jong-un. but thats just one possibility. >> there are parts of this attack and pa...

hacking scandal. david cameron minutes away from a show down. two major proposals in the trillion dollar showdown over the nations debt. the first is called a possible break through. the second plan is under attack by democrats. all this next on "american morning". thanks for being with us, its wednesday, july 20th, this "american morning". im kiran chetry. >> im ali velshi. do we have a lot going on today. british prime minister david cameron is about to get grilled by parliament....