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Bad cyber actors. >> fair to assume you are concerned if not worried about 16 and 18 elections and all others going forward? >> yes. >> to the best of the fbis knowledge, have they conducted covert influence in prior election campaigns in the united states? >> yes, absolutely theyve conducted influence operations in the past. what made this one different in many regards was, of course, the degree and then with what you can do through electronic systems today. all the way through the cold war up ...

We have. the russians interfered. the as opposeds to the united states which still uses terms like witch hunt and fake news. >> the fbi stressed the intentional intrusions are far-reaching. >> as of now we have evidence of 21 states that were targeted. >> but in no case were actual vote tallies altered in any way, shape or form? >> thats correct. >> i believe the russians will continue to try to conduct influence operations in the u.s. which will include cyber intrusions. >> meanwhile special co...

2016 election. >> in 2016, the russians at the direction of vladimir putin himself orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. >> russia, for years, has conducted influence operations, targeting our elections, all the way through the cold war up to our most recent election. >> i think we have to assume, for all the reasons discussed here, that the russians will be back and possibly other state actors and possibly other b...

Want released. so thats disruption that they caused will continue on. the next battleground is germany. if they can sway germany that it breaks up the eu and nato, they have achieved their goal. >> one thing i noticed in the old cold war days, all the communist warsaw cameras were there. they love showing our capitalist system as a terrible system and they love making us look bad in the world. are they trying to do that about our elections? are they going after us now on democracy? >> when my co...

Anything. we might slightly adjust what were doing. >> mr. chairman, just inquiry, and i appreciate your thoughtfulness. in your departure as we work through it its still acceptable to get another five minute round? >> up to five minute round. >> senator cotton. >> inmates running the asylum. so i think everyone here in this room and most americans have come to appreciate the aggressiveness with which russia uses active measures or covert influence operations, propaganda, call them whatever you ...

Personally, but if she gets a sizable vote, it raises more tremors here on the idea that the old idea of the european project, the idea of trading, looking outward rather than inwards, can be -- its in danger because of hard right opposition from those who claim nationalism. now, without linking le pen to trump specifically, donald trump has expressed admiration for her. and on top of this, it appears that weve got russian interference in the french election as we may have had russian interferen...

In the european union. wikileaks is attacking candidates of the center. it is note worthy how russian candidates e-mail security. those at the center, his communications are being attacked. with the view of what russia is trying to organize is extreme of the left and extreme of the right. >> phil, how did this happen? did wikileaks start as a whistle blowing operation and copted? >> forget about wikileaks. what does intelligence service do? it acquires information secretly and uses that informat...

And went after wikileaks. listen to this. >> wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. it is time to call out on wikileaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia. >> given the current investigations, how significant is this? >> i think it is for two reasons. i think he is about 75% right. look, what does a hostile intelligence service do? forget about what happened in the f...

Services, unlike western intelligence services, really, really focus on what we would refer to as covert actions, influence operations. they collect for their policymakers like we do. the russians are strong believers in using that information, not just collecting it so that somebody can read it. i think a lot of contact with a campaign implies really what the intelligence community has already -- the conclusions theyve already arrived at, which is there was indeed an influence campaign aimed at...

And my argument back is, why havent they done more to stop this? >> absolutely, nothing has been done. we are faced with an information warfare assault. and i think this latest retort from the intelligence community confirms that. the clear -- this was not about politics, this was about undermining the democratic system in the united states. it was a russian led intelligence operation involving both cyber and leaks and influence operations. it was led and directed by vladimir putin who views the...