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Can we get to the vladimir putin. thats where i think donald trump has a legitimate question. do you know what happened? were the russians or russian entities responsible for receiving information or acquiring information about the american elections, and did vladimir putin know. i think the second half of that question is up in the air. i think the president-elect has the right to ask how confident are you that putin actually knew. i dont think the intelligence guys know that answer. >> chairma...

After our ability to try to communicate. they are trying to establish influence operations, thats whats taking place. what their intentions are, we need to back up from that and need to state very clearly, russia is routinely trying to get into our networks and doing it quite well as are the chinese. we need to understand every time we pull out our device and hit send, we consent to monitoring. somebody is looking over our shoulder and in fact breaking down that data, whether its metadata or spe...

You? >> this strikes me as what we saw for years in terms of not only influence operations, but foreign governments in particular, the russians and the chinese, getting into u.s. systems, including the white house and extracting massive volumes of data. recently we have seen the state on the political front in the past, designed in military aircraft. that goes back years, the beginning of those technical operations. i think it highlights a point here, the conversations about something we concede...

Tied to the government, not just the review necessarily of electronic information, but also those that might have first-hand knowledge. let me take you back to february of 2016, richard, where the director of national intelligence put out the u.s. intelligence communities worldwide threat assessment where they said specifically in february of 2016 russia was assuming a sort of cyber posture, and they were targeting infrastructure and they were conducting espionage campaigns even when they were d...

Committee, now saying that he believes that the russian president is trying to extend his control in several surrounding countries. here is mike rogers with chris wallace. >> and then you see all of the russian movement along the border, and you see russian covert influence operations, meaning, they have their intelligence officials and their special forces inside ukraine trying to foment this notion that the russians should come in. there is no way that i would take that as any other sign other...

Border with ukraine? whats your analysis? is putin looking for a way out or simply setting the stage for another invasion? >> he is absolutely not looking for a way out. you have two environments going on at the same time, chris. you have the ukraine issue and you have the georgia issue. theyre moving some of their most advanced equipment. no reason to do that. the georgian army poses no threat. russian movement along the border and you see russian covert influence operations, meaning they have ...

Afghanistan, general david petraeus, is ordering an investigation joining appreciate both of you being with us. when people hear psy-ops, thats supposed to be directed toward the enemy. theres a quote in the article that said "what do i have to plant inside their heads? what kind of tactics are we talking about here when we talk about see ones that you say you were asked to use toward u.s. senators and others?" >> i think really more correctly what we would say is influence operations. and what ...

Join us live from washington is michael hastings, who wrote the article, and in dallas, texas, mike holmes, the key source quoted in the article and former active duty lieutenant colonel this the national guard. appreciate both of you being with us. mr. holmes, when people hear psy-ops, we know thats stuff usually directed toward the enemy. theres a quote in the article that said "what do i have to plant inside their heads? what kind of tactics are we talking about here when we talk about psy-op...

>> i think really more correctly what we would say is influence operations. and what we mean by that is, how would we influence these senators, these visitors or the think tanks that visited us to do things the way we wanted them. and for instance, with senators and the congressman, it was simply, how had these people voted in the past, what were their positions coming in and what could the generals actually say to them that would get them to do what we wanted them to do, provide more money and ...

Michael hastings, who wrote the article, and in dallas, texas, mike holmes, the key source quoted in the article and former active duty lieutenant colonel this the national guard. appreciate both of you being with us. mr. holmes, when people hear psy-ops, we know thats stuff usually directed toward the enemy. theres a quote in the article that said "what do i have to plant inside their heads? what kind of tactics are we talking about here when we talk about psy-ops that you say you were asked to...