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Ground, your former colleagues, who are dealing with covert attempts to undermine democratic institutions in this country? when the president takes the positions on russia that he has taken? when he says some of the things that he has said about vladimir putin. what does that do for the men and women who are on the ground? >> its demoralizing i would imagine. can you imagine sitting in there. youre providing this intelligence to him and he rejects you as an american who supports you and will tak...

See institutions red lights flashing. what if this is the worst case scenario. imagine being in the intelligence agencies today and youve watched your commander-in-chief take the side of your adversary who struck you with an information attack in 2016, who is messing with you on many fronts against nato allies, who your president advances conspiracies that the kremlin might put out against u.s. intelligence agencies. we saw it with a tweet yesterday, this is a rigged witch hunt, the mueller inve...

Meddling with vladimir putin as he will firmly ask. should the president not be beyond the asking phase of this specific element? >> he should be, victor, and he should also stop using the term meddling and fake news, because its contributing to the types of attacks were seeing. this was an information attack using cyber methods against the institutions of the united states. and every congressman, the president, and all military people take a vow, an oath to protect and defend the constitution a...

Cnn military analyst and lieutenant general mark hertling is with us now. thank you for with us. how vulnerable is this threat especially with the mid terms five months away? >> based on what we know, what the intelligence communities have told us, we are extremely vulnerable. not only because of the scanning of instruments, the election machines as was reported this week in congress, but also just the fact that we are incredibly vulnerable beyond just the hacking or scanning of machines. it is ...

Indictment? >> this indictment came as a huge surprise to most of us who have been watching this investigation very closely. i think what it clearly shows is that the investigation is perhaps nearing an end when we see these kinds of criminal prosecutorial allegations coming out. i would not be surprised if now we see more similar indictments against cyberattacks. even know this indictment did not connect the disinformation campaign that happened online and also in real life on u.s. soil there w...

Whole victory, his astonishing victory over hillary clinton in 2016 would be undermined by all this. that has led to how hes treated the russian meddle situation. so they of course seized on it saying it didnt affect outcome but that was not the subject of this and many people believe that may be a question that will never be known. >> all right. thank you so much. joining us now, the former head of the sxraxt the national security agency, michael heyden with us now. a cnn analyst. thank you. th...

Now donald trump jr. isnt the only one with the russia problem today. facebook revealed yesterday that it sold approximately $100,000 of ads to accounts that likely operated out of russia. "washington post" reporter carol whennic described it this way. >> my sourcing suggests that this is the beginning of the tip of the iceberg of something much larger. this facebook incident which mostly started in 2015 and stretched all the way through 2016 was almost like a beta test. it was a way for this ru...

Payment. so this is being fixed through alternate channels. you dont have to pay the blackmailers or the criminals to get the data. the other side of the story is fortunately while hospitals were affected and a number of targets, did not really have kinetic affects. shut down systems but did not cause any, for example, power outages or loss of life in that sense. this was an information attack, which shut down systems and locked up data, which is problematic of itself. but it does sort of raise ...