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Of the united states. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence agencies concluding, though, that the russians were never able to change votes, only gagt gather data and release it to sow distrust and uncertainty. there were questions for former homeland secretary jay johnson on why the obama administration didnt alert the american public sooner. once they detected russian activity last summer. >> why did we wait from july to october to make that statement? >> one of the candidates as you recall was predic...

Committees today, russian cyber meddling front and center. >> in 2016 the russian government at the direction of vladimir putin himself orchestrated cyberattacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. >> well planned, well coordinated, multifaceted attack on our election process and democracy. >> reporter: homeland security officials telling lawmakers the russians were aggressive and relentless, trying to target not only entities like the dem...

And, so, or taking steps to themselves delegitimize the election process and under mine the integrity of the election process. and, integrity of the election process. so we considered all of these things and the decision was made that the director of national intelligence and the director of homeland security should together make this statement. there were public statements made by various officials including myself through the campaign season, preelection to the same effect. >> i yield back. >>...

Interfere with, probably hell tell us that theres some that we cant interfere with. >> reporter: and is obstruction one of those areas. >> i think everything is on the table. >> reporter: do you have any reason to believe that the president himself may be under investigation? >> im not going to go into any kind of conversations i have had with the special counsel. were staying focused on this investigation on what the russians did. we have more evidence today of how they have interfered in our e...

Russians were meddling with the election? >> im going to disagree with your premise that there was a delay. this was a big decision, and there were a lot of considerations that went into i it. this was an unprecedented step. first as you know well, we have to carefully consider whether d classifying information and sources and methods. secondly, there was an ongoing election. that had to be carefully considered. one of the candidates as you recall, was predicting that the election was going to b...

Government at the direction of vladimir putin himself orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. >> this was a, my opinion, a well planned, well coordinated, multifaceted attack on our election process and democracy. >> are we prepared today to say how many states were targeted? >> as of right now, we have evidence of 21 states, election related systems in 21 states that were targeted. >> russia continues to engage in e...

Do you discredit those investigations in republicans in congress are part of them? >> coming up, a looming question going on at the white house, can the president be charged with obstruction? jonathan turley says yes. and well ask him about a case to take out the election process. how the outcome to fundamentally change american politics. professor turley is next. ♪ coming down like an armageddon flame ♪ when this bell rings... ...it starts a chain reaction... ...thats heard throughout the c...

Said hey, putin, help me become president and i will be good for russia, that would be terrible, but it wouldnt be a crime. we have to understand the difference between doing something back -- >> martha: some people say that would be treason. >> alan: it wouldnt be treason. >> martha: why not? >> alan: of the president is elected and he is entitled to make judgments about whats best for the united states. we seen plenty of people reporting on this who saved if thats what happened that would be c...

Somehow not going to be treated equally or as intensely when this attack was perpetrated against muslims as opposed to by one. a lot of sensitivity over this issue. people very much wanting justice and more answers over this. lewis. >> all right, lucy, live from london. thanks so much. still ahead, the supreme court deciding to take on a new case dealing with this countrys election process. >> how the outcome could fundamentally change the way voting in this country is actually carried out. ...

Took office, so it doesnt qualify for the terms here. >> and then we move on -- >> after he was elected but before he took office. >> and then i tweet that i think well be looking back on years from now. mika, the most self-destructive, i think. >> yes. terrible. just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. trump asked how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the sacred election process. this is nixon wa...