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Learned that was the presidents son through this e-mail because at that time we couldnt be sure whether this was going to go beyond the intelligence gathering operation. >> so when they were just stealing stuff, when they were stealing documents, thats what i traditionally think of as a spying operation. i think of spying mostly as stealing secrets. when -- whether its, you know, potentially damaging political information or useful industrial information or military, whatever it is. stealing inf...

Thats exactly right. so the hacking had been earlier. the theft of documents had been earlier. but they hadnt been dumped. at this point we wouldnt have known that the russians intended to escalate that way. so if this is correct, the first person who may have found out that the russians had decided not just to gather information about what the candidates positions might be or what they might do in office, but they had made a decision to try to intervene to help a candidate. the first person who...

May have meddled in the u.s. election. what do you make of this? >> well, the russians have been meddling in our elections and everybodys elections for decades. they call it disinformation. this is -- its part of a massive -- theyre much more involved in that. they spend more time and money and people on that than stealing secrets. >> youre right about that. what do you think of the timing? what do you think -- now he is saying maybe. >> i dont know. i think he wants to have an earlier statement...

It was less than a week ago. now they claim they are holding an american citizen who is accused of stealing secrets. the issue is they want leverage and they want a meeting with officials in the united states. i had a meeting a short time ago and that is the claim and their goal. when you are the north korean regime and you have little leverage, you have detainees and your nuclear program. you saw what happened when kim jong-un ordered that nuclear test last week. whether or not that will work, ...

A lot of the things were intended for people who were not in the room as far as the messages that sounded almost identical to pyongyang propaganda. >> what are the north koreans get out of this? >> reporter: they have another bargaining chip. the nuclear test last week was certainly an effort to get the attention of the world. it did. specifically the united states. the united states responded four days later with a b-52 bomber up to the demilitarized zone. escorted by south korean fighter jets....

Shanghai that was responsible for this attack. in effect showing and saying to china we know youre doing this. now we have north korea. until this point it wasnt known that north korea had such a capability to carry out an attack with such success. now they have shown that. one of the difficulties with this story is quantifying the cost of it. you can say, well, theyre stealing secrets, how much is it worth? who is losing? how does it work out? here you have a very definable cost of this. the mo...

Person. hes been defensive in the interviews ive seen which have been disappointing. having him on the show when he was here in person, having positive interviews with him. >> weve seen glenn before. hes an interesting character and prickly at times, but this was an interesting exchange where it was like what comes first, the chicken or the egg. this is about good journalism, creating the debate that we have, but there is a point you have to evolve the conversation into at what point is this tru...

Townhouse that the chamber owns on capitol hill was at one point communicating with an internet address in china. last march a printer started printing paper with chinese characters. martha: what a story this is. what else do we know about how widespread this problem is, dog? >> reporter: a report released last month found that hackers and programmers in china and russia are putting at risk $398 billion in research. they blame those two countries in particular for stealing secrets, phafrg secret...

Americans have done it. this is allowable now. you used traditional mu anythings like cruise missiles and it took out the system. >> the chi meez and the russians are not what they are doing with state-sponsored cyber terrorism. >> they are doing state-sponsored espionage. a big difference. >> they are stealing secrets. >> they are not trying to disrupt. >> not yet. the difference between an offensive attack in terms of an act of war. its a very thin line. one of the things the pentagon struggle...