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There because the russians really have an intent to go turn off the power sometime, they never have, or whether it is there to prepare for if there was ever a conflict. the u.s. strategy until now has been largely one of surveillance. but not one of placing incredibly aggressive malware back in their systems. and that has changed over the past year, as you said, and as the story reports, because of new legislation and new presidential orders that allow u.s. cyber command to go take far more aggr...

Powerful in his denial today. >> jonathan, it has to start at the top if there will be an attempt to stop russia. they did one thing in 2018 on election day and the days while the votes were being counted, they took down the internet research agencies internet. they basically did the first that we know, offensive cyber attack from u.s. cyber command. >> the efforts have been minimal. the presidents remarks from last summer remain striking and sort of for a president who is able to shake off bad ...

Turn his sight now on saying, hey, russia, you didnt help me win, you didnt collude in my campaign, but you did meddle in our democracy. so you need to stop it, basically. >> well, we have seen this. congress has given u.s. cyber command a lot of new authority to be able to take actions in the cyber domain and push back against russia. now, they wont tell us what those are because theyre very secret but we do know that we have this new authority, general mak a asoni has reported this just last m...

Repercussions from the mueller report. but again, as national security and military analyst, what fallout in that regard might you be anticipating? >> well, from the national security perspective, we have to keep in mind that the u.s. is engaged on a daily basis in cyber competition with russia. our forces at u.s. cyber command have persistent engagement with russia. we may also see impact from china too and the whole purpose of this investigation was to look into how much russia had tried to in...

Election or perhaps even in other countries? >> 2020, the best defense is a good offense and i leave that to u.s. cyber command. weve also seen our state and local officials spend $800 million to shore up cyber security. the candidates, the campaign, dnc, rnc, youve got to take cyber security seriously. no more stupid, weak passwords. youve got to tighten up. 2020 will be safer. 2018 was safer. 2020 will be better yet. arthel: thank you so much for your analysis. >> thank you. eric: its a victor...

Today in russia, right? justice department unseals a new indictment the day he leaves for moscow detailing how moscow at this moment is meddling in our current elections. john bolton gets over to russia and says ah, you guys want to get together later? he then sits across from putin as putin mocks american symbols. and brags about how hes got the american president on a leash? and the whole thing ends with, well see you in paris. if that wasnt enough in terms of the timing of everything, we le...

This moment is meddling in our current elections. john bolton gets over to russia and says, ah, this meddling. you guys want to get together later? he then sits across from putin and listens as putin mocks american symbols. and brags about how hes got the american president on a leash. and the whole thing ends with, well see you in paris. if that wasnt enough in terms of the timing of everything, we learned u.s. cyber command is launching its first cyber operation against russian meddling, suppo...

Separate and side load enough to the side but that it really needs to be integrated. >> the trump administration has got a single-minded focus on projecting strength. in keeping with this mission, theres a fifth military combat command, u.s. cyber command oversees operations across the globe. >> our goal remains american security will be as dominant in the digital world as we are in the physical world. >> the vice president says he administers and is currently putting the final touches on their ...

Executive was involved in helping put this thing together, to sort of explain what are you guys doing about this? and there were some blatant spin that -- and falsehoods perpetrated in that news conference by john bolton who asserted from the moment donald trump took office, he had a coherent strategy to counter foreign election interference. that just isnt true. it is true there are some patriots in that room, intelligence officials who want to do things, are doing things, theyre not getting th...

Stopped. essentially, this started in the summer of 2016 and still carries on today. >> yeah, my sense was if the president were really serious, he would have been at that event, wouldnt have been in the briefing room, would have been in the east room at the white house or the rose garden. he would have introduced all of his top security, national security chiefs. he would have made a very tough state, directed at the russians, but he was absent on that front. one individual who was there, gener...