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Whether the national security apparatus of our government should put itself in a position where we could be accused of taking sides but nevertheless we did tell the american public on october 7, that was a statement jim clapper and i issued. it didnt get the attention it should have, frankly, on october. then also there was the scanning and probing of voter registration databases which really, really concerned me. and i probably issued no less than five public statements to state election offici...

An exceptionally small number of that 21 were actually successfully penetrated. >> we were able to determine that the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the russian government. >> so in her rebuke she says quote, recent nbc reporting has misrepresented facts and confused the public with regard to department of home and security and efforts to combat election hacking first off, let me be clear, we have no evidence old or new that any votes in the 2016 election we...

With nbc news talking about the targeting of the 21 states and she am fassized th -- emphasize things have been done to bolster those 20 states. and some of the states say they were never interfered with. there is a discrepancy between dhs and the states that say, no, were not -- were not one of the 21. we havent had any problems. can you clarify any of that for me? >> well, yes. we have to be careful here. first, there is an excellent report that just came out authored by the center for america...

That the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the russian government. >> reporter: jay johnson was dhs secretary when these russian intertrugss were taking place. u.s. intelligence knew by the summer of 2016 the hacking originated from russia. two months later, they told the public. >> should you have done it before october 7th? >> any time you make a difficult national security decision, somebody says, why did you do that and somebody else says, why didnt you do ...

News reported that russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several u.s. states before the election. cynthia mcfadden helped break that story. she has the latest. >> reporter: a senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the top-secret report says several states had their voting registration system successfully compromise bid td by the russia government. this after u.s. officials previously revealed 21 states were targeted. we asked homeland securities chief of...

How extensive russias meddling has been. nbcs senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden has more on this. >> a senior intelligent officials said several states had their voting registration system successfully compromised by the russian government. this after u.s. officials had previously revealed 21 states were targeted. we asked homeland securitys chief of cyber security, jeanette manfra about that secret document. >> i cant talk about classified information publicly. we saw targetin...

Evidence that the russians meddled. whether they affected the outcome is another question, but they meddled and thats dangerous for democracy. >> several states had their voting registration systems successfully compromised by the russian government. >> we saw targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of that 21 were actually successfully penetrated. >> the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the russian government. >> one of president trumps most ...

Guettas torture went unseen there but its pain amid the painful cries youll hear in damascus. nick paton walsh. cnn, london. >> its just surreal how much these people have endured. >> nick paton walsh giving us an understanding whats happening to people. thank you, nick, for reporting. moving on now to argentina, the nation saying its not giving up hope for the missing submarine. the ara san juan vanished more than a week ago with 44 crew members on board. >> teams from around the world have s...

Created the biggest attack in the history of this country. so we need to really get to the bottom of what motivates this person and perhaps the next person that may be copying the same sort of attack. >> neil: ill tell you, manny, part of a different breed. everybody is running around like crazy and obviously trying to help in any way they can and these guys are running into all of this to make sure it stops. imagine how many more could have been killed had they not done that. a great risk to th...

That can take some time to do that. theyre going to want to look at everything. we talked about all the weapons, 23 weapons in that hotel room. right behind us. 18 weapons, 19 weapons in his home in mesquite. but ets wills look at his star gets for a minute. twos a crowd of 22,000 people. they were all country music fans. so many law enforcement officers off duty from california had come in. was that just a coincidence or did they all plan to come into this concert in sbu he? but here is what is...