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>> the ica did not look at collusion confident campaigns. the ica looked at russian -- let me finish. russian involvement in the election process. were in agreement with that. we have not come to any determination on collusion or russias preferences. if we used solely the social media advertising that we have seen, theres no way hawk look at ha and say that that was to help the right side of the ideological chart and not the left. or vice versa. they were indiscriminate. one of the things thats ...

Election. thats not a question thats unresolved. >> thats a fact. that is hard to you, period, underline, russia -- >> i have no doubt. >> tried to interfere. >> i have no doubt. >> the question is did they have help? >> correct. the issue is not do they have help or were they trying to help one side or the other, were they trying to help every side. the russian model in the european elections is to crate as much chaos as they possibly could. we have seen that also in our election process where ...

Conversation. russian election and meddling in the u.s. election. there is -- facebook is now saying that 10 million americans viewed fraudulent, divisive political ads during the election process. this story, what do you make of what were learning here? this is -- facebook is revealing this. >> at its core russia wants chaos in the united states. what youll see is an effort by them. i havent seen it. but facebook has given hints to the idea it was the full political spectrum. they were trying t...

In prison. because thats why i chose to campaign for my people. i decided to fight for a different tunisia with democratic values. in the wake of the arab spring and his fellow campaigners founded what they called the alternative youth network known by its french acronym r. a j. they campaign for environmental protection jobs and political change there are big problems in the country economic growth a slow and terrorism is still attracting too many young people youth unemployment stands at more ...

Officials have in fact said as many as 21 states were potentially targeted with lexus temps scamming attempts by russian government cyber actors in the past election cycle. so now acting secretary is saying the dhs is ready to go on-site safeguarding the systems. but shes saying shes sensing a bit of push back from the states baugh they dont want the federal government involved in their local or state election process. >> even if they need it. jessica snyder. thanks very much. joining me is repu...

Back against this russian influence. because nothing vladimir putin fears more than losing his own election. so i think we need to talk about fighting fire with fire here to some extent as well. >> is it difficult for the u.s. to respond as aggressively as necessary when the president himself questions the intelligence which is found that russia did interfere in the election process and continues to interfere in the political process? >> well, its obviously not helpful. and i think its counter t...

Our evaluation. he really has a very different take on virtually everything relative to the russia investigation. he has not seen any of the classified information, but he is convinced that the dnc was not hacked by the russians but was an inside job. and he does not believe that guccifer 2.0 is a russian cut out for the gru, which is a military intelligence agency within russia. so he just says something is white when its black. he does not want to believe in the 17 intelligence agencies and th...

Investigated this. the russian covert intelligence operation has been successful. absolutely theres an effort by russia to manipulate the election and to try to undermine confidence in our electoral system. >> but is he right? that was my question. he said he got no help from the russians. >> its unclear who the russians were trying to help. what they were surely trying to do is manipulate the election process and undermine our confidence and with that theyve been successful. whether they were t...

Principally to disrupt the election. its clear the president has been hampered in his ability to function. congress is investigating this. this russian covert operation has been dramatically successful. to manipulate the election and try to undermine confidence in our electoral system. >> but is he right? that was my question. is he right? he said he got no help from the russians. >> you know, its unclear who the russians were trying to help. what they were trying to do is manipulate the electio...

Where we look at the overall threat landscape and how it affects the government and how they are preparing to protect the 2018 midterm elections from hackers around the world. >> this is not one of our highest priorities. this is on par with protecting the grid, protecting the integrity of our election process. it is fundamental to what we believe in and what we believe our responsibility is to defend and partnership with the state and local entities that run it. >> this is kind of the scenario ...