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Pursue the russian hackers. the set back comes amid some other news. a key person at the center of that dossier goes before senate about russian meddling. the dossier under scrutiny. russian hackers on the run. all this shows the investigation still kicking into gear even regardless of what the trump administration does. joining me is patrick tucker. patrick, who won today? >> anybody seeking to put some sort of damper or bumper or speed bump in front of future kremlin or nation state spear fish...

Some tech weapons that have attacked american, political and business interest. the idea is how they abuse domains. in the web of international groups battling these plots the ruling strikes a blow for the u.s. and against some of russias techniques. this federal case was not brought by special counsel mueller. its not brought by a justice. it was brought by microsoft. u.s. intel identified fancy bear as one of those key hacker collectives that attacked the dnc with the backing of putins intelli...

Whoever else to go to a court and say if nation state is using our e-mail service to send fake or false e-mails to somebody else to get them to download l malware then its infiltrated. we, the company that offers that service, we can have that traffic instead sent somewhere else. thats because the hackers that are using our name inappropriately, they have given up any right to any traffic thats associated with this faulty e-mail they have set up. its all very technical. it means that a group tha...

Traffic where they can analyze. >> youre hitting two key points. these hacks against dnc staff worked in part because the russians were able to impersonate seemingly trustworthy do nmains like mic o microsoft. they say the microsoft folks went off them sending notes to the hacker. thats a type of progress. what do you do when you get judgments against people and their all over the world? theyre not here in america to catch. >> thats part of the challenge with dealing with this threat. for those ...

Prototypical russian hackers. the fact they are overseas is not a reason not to bring these cases. >> on the russians, do you think bob mueller, is looking at the outcome of this case today? >> i think its a very important initiative by microsoft. i think it doesnt necessarily directly overlay with the work of the special prosecutor. i think we need criminal law, civil law and we need private entities such as microsoft to take this great initiative. the decision that came out of court in virgini...