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>> tucker: would you concede that were spending a lot of time examining, and i dont think its bad, but russian influence on our country, society, our politics. do you think this will kick off a new era where we take a close look at the influence of a lot of other countries on our politics. if not why not? >> well, i think the issue of foreign influence in american elections is a serious one. its a real one. you know, you just mentioned one example. im sure there are many others. of course, we wa...

Before i announced i would run for president. the results were not impacted. the campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion." with me is congressman jerry nadler, democrat from new york, new ranking member of the house judiciary committee, a panel that would potentially initiate impeachment proceedings against the president if that were to happen and if democrats were to win back the house. two extremely big ifs. your reaction to the news today. >> my reaction to the news is this is absolute proof...

Charges against foreign agents for attacking our electoral process, the president was in no mood departing for florida. instead he used twitter to incorrectly intimate he had been cleared of any wrongdoing. "russia starred in 2014 long before i announced i would run for president. the results were not impacted. the campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion." with me is congressman jerry nadler, a ranking member of the house judiciary committee your reaction to the news today. >> my reaction to th...

The results were not impacted. the campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion." with me is congressman jerry nadler, a ranking member of the house judiciary committee your reaction to the news today. >> my reaction to the news is this is absolute proof of what we knew all along and what the president has denied, namely that we were attacked. this is a very serious attack against the united states by a hostile foreign power, an attack against our election process. our entire governing process. that...

It does tend on indicate perhaps where some of the detail in this indictment might be coming from if this individual is cooperating with the investigation. he may well be a source. >> so repeatedly, to be clear from democrats and republicans on the relevant communities. what are you aware is being done? if you were advising the president on homeland security, what steps do you believe need to be taken to prevent ongoing russian attacks that are not being taken right now? >> we should be doing at...

That russians an adversarial government came into our country to set up the infrastructure to allow them to attack our election process, then i think that all americans can take a step back and say we want to see the russians held accountable for that. the big question is, why arent we seeing that? we get caught up in this issue of collusion but we need to look at that fact from a national security perspective because were going into another election where they will do it again. >> this is fasci...

Russian involvement, but the fact that there isnt anybody named here, implies that we had nothing to do with it. because if there was anything, they would have indicted us. which is not that bad of an analysis. >> and youll notice to our viewers that according to the expertise of all of our guests, everyone is stringing out different messages from this, malcolm nance, our intelligence expert was saying that what this does is expose a huge data mining operation on the part of the united states on...

Is it connected to the fact that he did get help and is hoping for more help from them? thats another question that we need to an. >> it our friend clint watts, our former special agent with the joint terrorism task force has been with us and listening to our conversation. clint, i know you have strong feelings about what has happened on american soil that was caused by a foreign actor who just simply, for all the reasons ken delaney just listed, took advantage of our americanness, of our good n...

R and d through these activities it allows them to catch up. we have the issue of the u.s. government not wanting to tell us all time how bad the problem is. how can we address the true threat of cyberhacking if the government cant give us real transparency? there is a back and forth balance that has to be struck on that. >> sandra: director coats talking about who poses the biggest threats. >> some of these actors including russia are likely to pursue even more aggressive cyberattacks with the ...

As we can so we can give the warnings and alerts so we can share information back and forth with local and state and election processes with the federal government. department of homeland security, department of the fbi, obviously were involved, given these are domestic issues. but we do look to every piece of intelligence we can gather so we can provide warnings. it is an effort that i think the government needs to put together at the state and local level and work with those individuals engage...