Exwives and exgirlfriend. How does the fbi fit into that. We just learned some very interesting if not completely clear information from the head of the fbi director. I want to bring in chris cillizza, who is here with me to discuss this. There is a lot to unpack here from Russian Meddling in the election and how that feaffects the midterms coming up. The timeline had it comes to rob porter, you know what, pause for a moment, chris, lets return to the testimony at the Senate Intelligence committee. Theyre out in the community, and i can tell you the Community Values what they do on the island. Thank you. And an oped by a number of former intelligence analysts call the nunes memo and the release, quote, one of the worst cases of politization of intelligence in modern american history, unquote. You said you had concerns about that memo. I know you cant get into the
sure i stay on the unclassified side. We have seen intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle here. Director co
classified budget, so it gives you a little bit of the sense of the scope of how much money the us is devoting to this. we re apparently not apparently we are devoting more moneyjust again on the unclassified side, dod has $10 billion for cyber that s more than all of the other civilian agencies combined, which are much more focused on defence. i see, and i think people will relate and understand hacks on the businesses, their passwords and things like that. is there any evidence so far kind of that there is any cyber activity or hacking that has actually uncovered any sensitive military information on either side? well, it depends on how you define the word hacking here. certainly, if you talk about things like wikileaks and some of the secrets that were exposed with the help of insiders like chelsea manning, you re looking at again, if you want to call that hacked, sometimes that s defined as that according to the insider threat kind of model of how cyber works.
must be the targets of hackers from around the world? yes, certainly, there are activists who might be involved in this. in fact, ukraine has actually called on hackers to go after russian targets. the us has its own capabilities. we are considered by a think tank last year, the international institute for. i forgot the name! iiss is the name of the think tank. they re ranked the us number one in terms of its capabilities on cyber. and then in the next layer down, included russia, included china, included the uk, and included a number of five eyes countries. and it s difficult to get the numbers for an actual clarified budget, but there are certainly thousands of people working on this in the us and just cyber command alone that are on the offensive hacking side, the budget over there is $600 million approximately, that s just for the
sure i stay on the unclassified side. we have seen intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle here. director coats? yes, we have. anyone else? admiral rogers? yes, i think this would be a good topic to get into greater detail in this afternoon. according to news reports, there are dozens of white house staff with only interim security clearances still. to include jared kushner until last week, to include white house staff secretary rob porter, who i would assume would have regularly reviewed classified documents as part of his job. director coats, if someone is flagged by the fbi with areas of concern into white house staff with interim clearances, should those staff continue to have access to classified materials? let me first just speak in
trump sold a property he had bought in 2004 in west palm beach where he reaped a profit of 129%. craig, i looked at the other real estate sales. no one had a profit like that. tenants of trump tower, my russian investment there. none of this on its face is illegal however it is a foreign adversary that attacked us so we should find out if these ties converged with russia s interference campaign. and cop clear the information you shared was from the unclassified side. that s right. one of the things i just heard from senator graham cause med to raise my eyebrows, this idea that we should go after whoever leaked the information to the washington post about general flynn. does that sound right to you? is that something we should be doing. craig, our country was attacked, our sovereignty was violated and russia and other countries will seek to do that again if we do nothing so if we