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They have done things on the internet no one else has done, attacking our election, and they actually have turned off the power using cyberattacks in the past, and no other country in the world has done that. >> so how vulnerable is the u.s. to attacks like this? >> speaking to security analysts, i have heard that it would be possible with persistent sophisticated attacks to take down power to a city for an extended period, to take down power to a region for a shorter period. taking down power t...

Of places like russia or kazakhstan or azerbaijan. >> there was nothing illegal about it, but the people at fusion thought there might be more so they went looking for somebody who knew rush shar and had sources in russia like christopher steel. >> i knew that he had a project with russia implicating contacts between russians and people associated with president trumps campaign, candidate trumps campaign. >> steel has barely started his investigation when a very big russia story broke in the uni...

Like russia and soviet union states like kazakhstan. >> there was nothing to suggest anything illegal about that but the investigators working for fusion gps thought there might be more to know. so they went looking for someone who knew russia, someone who had sources in russia. someone like christopher steele. >> at some point in the summer of 2016, i heard from mr. steel that he had this project relating to russia which implicated contacts between russians and people associated with president ...

Kazakhstan, azerbaijan. >> reporter: there was nothing to suggest anything illegal about that, but the investigators working for fusion gps thought there might be more to know. so they went looking for someone who knew russia, someone who had sources in russia. someone like christopher steele. >> at some point in the summer of 2016, i heard from mr. steele that he had this project relating to russia, which implicated contacts between russians and people associated with president trumps campaign,...

Places like russia and former soviet union states like kazakhstan. >> there was nothing to suggest anything illegal about that, but the investigatiors working for fusion gps thought there might be more to know so they went looking for someone that knew russia, someone that had sources in russia. someone like christopher steel. >> at some point in the summer of 2016, i heard from mr. steel he had this project relating to russia, which implicated contacts between russians and people associated wit...

Saying, okay, lets begin to get serious about talking about these issues that are controversial, meaning their ballistic missile program and war head program and begin doing something, probably communicating through china that it might be willing to do that. i dont think were there yet, but it could split either way, and a lot of people, i was just talking to a bunch of asian security analysts who see this trip to asia as one where on the whole trump communicated that hes not going to engage in ...

Connection there. either what knows there, a family or a friend or something. we dont know what it is, but it has to be some sort of connection in my opinion. >> yeah. thats what a lot of our security analysts are saying. we dont know yet. we are awaiting that press conference to get more information about that. we may never know. but hopefully, we will get that information so as to make sure that these sorts of things dont happen again. as we have been seeing, they do. our thoughts and prayers ...

We now know the meddling in u.s. politics by russia continued after novembers election. there is no reason to believe its still not happening right now. pamela. >> fascinating, fascinating report. our thanks to drew griffin. im not going to bring in and ran the agencies operations in russia. he is also a cnn security analysts, steve, just to want get your reaction, the russians using social media to try make racial tensions worse, does this fit in with your experience dealing with russia. the le...

All it takes thats partly what makes it so difficult for security analysts to tackle hackers and the election in the us showed us what repercussions a successful cyber attack can have. it wasnt confined to publishing the emails of hillary clinton or john podesta it was also about spreading fake news first came the hack then the conspiracy theory take pizza gate for example. it started with a lie that clinton and pedestrian were operating an international paedophile ring from a pizzeria. its goin...