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Michael daniel the white house cyber security coordinator developed these really creative options for going after the russians, shutting down their news sites, dumping information about putins corruption and secret bank accounts and susan rice, obamas national security director calls him in and says stand on, knock it off. we dont want to box the president in. that was a fateful move that basically sent a signal to people who wanted a more forceful response. >> and thats what i think the book di...

Its not one of their greater moments. there was a lot of debate about how to handle this, and they were people on the white house staff, michael daniel, the white house cybersecurity coordinator, and the chief russia specialist on the national security council, you have to strike back in real-time. they come back with these really creative proposals, cyber attacks and russian news sites dumping information, exposing information about putins corruption, secret bank accounts in latvia, and the top...

Quoted as saying, we have been told to stand down, one of michl daniels top officials, "i was incredulous and in disbelief, they told me a moment to process, and my mind i was like, what did i hear that correctly, then he spoke up, where was standing down? michael, can you help us understand? daniel informed him that the orders came from susan rice and another senior white house official." the point is, in the middle of the election, democrats are so outraged now but pushing back on russia, why ...

White house, told about the russian meddling in the investigation, and, you know, a lot of it does not make the obama white house, you know, its not one of their greater moments. there was a lot of debate about how to handle this, and they were people on the white house staff, michael daniel, the white house cybersecurity coordinator, and the chief russia specialist on the national security council, you have to strike back in real-time. they come back with these really creative proposals, cyber ...

President trump is not done enough to push back on the russian meddling. they announced new sanctions against russia today. prior to today, there has been criticism of that. i was struck by something in your book about susan rice where another former obama ed fishel quoted as saying, we have been told to stand .. officials, "i was incredulous and in disbelief, they told me a moment to process, and my mind i was like, what did i hear that correctly, then he spoke up, where was standing down? mich...

And forceful in their statements and tell the public early on what was happening. >> michael? >> yes. and as we report in the book, there were people on the white house staff who believed very strongly that if you dont strike back in real time, youre going to -- youre sending a signal that they can get away with it. michael daniel, cyber security coordinator developed these creative options for going after the russians, shutting down their news sites, dumping information, information about putin...

>> bill: but both told -- >> look, this is at a time -- this is the summer of 2016. at this point the intelligence community and the fbi has agreed the russians hacked the dnc. they were mounting a cyber campaign against the election. they were starting to hak state election voter systems. that alarmed people. >> bill: even worse, michael, your book shows they knew about this a year and a half before the election. john brennan was made aware of it. >> there was certainly intelligence the russian...

I want to start in the summer of 2016, okay, in your book here it is on the screen, one day in late august -- were getting ready three months from an election. national security adviser susan rice called daniel prito demand he cease and desist in the cyber options. she said dont get ahead of him. daniel and his cyber response group were given strict orders. stand down and then you continue with the salty language where he felt where she was coming from was not correct. where does she give the st...

Silent about her alleged affair with donald trump before he was president. trumps attorney michael cohen has insisted he acted on his own and the document shows a link to the trump organization. one of the documents refers to a demand for arbitration in naming the previously undisclosed attorney. danie daniels claims she was paid $130,000 to keep silent and reps have denied any affair between trump and daniels. >> sandra: a potential shake-up on the presidents team. bret baier anchors special re...

Back strongly on twitter. today, on the record the head of cyber and the obama administration confirms our reporting, his anytime is michael daniel. he has said, and im quoting him now, the obama administration wanted to inform those seven states but quote, clearly it didnt happen the way we wanted to. he confirms on the record there were indeed seven states and the seven states we indicated were correct. >> cynthia mcfadden thank you very much for that reporting. i want to bring in our panel. s...