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Custody. jeff paul fox news. >> the pentagon is shifting attention from boots on the ground to hac and computers, "the new york times" reporting at the u.s. cyber command is ramping up their fight against threats from other nations, command which previously focuses on stopping cyber-attacks and nuclear tests now carries out cyber raids daily. american intelligence agencies call cyber threats the greatest risk facing the u.s. and the former british spy behind the fake dossier about president trum...

Classified intelligence about u.s. surveillance programs. snowden handed that information over wholesale and in the process, revealed that the intel community was collecting information about americans suspected of having ties to terrorism. that prompted a national outcry. >> what snowden did more than anything else as he brought one word to the forefront, privacy. he burst peoples bubbles. >> a lot has happened in the ensuing years since very public fallout. members of congress insist they abus...

Of the same behaviors that we are seeing. >> the man you just heard is admiral michael rogers, head of the nsa and u.s. cyber command. he recently told the senate that the trump administration has not done enough to stop russian interference ahead of the mid-term elections. joining me is jay johnson, head of homeland security under barack obama. thank you for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> we know russia interfered in our election. we know there is an investigation about potential collu...

Hey, you bring a knife to this fight, we will bring a gun. thats the kind of language that putin understands. im not sure he understands any other language. >> the presidents nominee to be director of the national security agency and commander of u.s. cyber command shares those fears. >> i would say right now they do not think that much will happen to them. >> they dont fear us? >> they dont fear us. >> by going out publically and naming russia as being behind these probing cyber attacks on crit...

Confident that the federal government has a broad strategy in place. >> reporter: some democrats say the u.s. response to election interference was not sufficient to deter russia from attacks on other critical infrastructure. >> there should are have been a stronger response in the cyber realm with the russians to say, hey, you bring a knife to this fight, well bring a gun. that is the kind of language that putin understands and im not sure he understands any other language. >> reporter: the pre...

Way he changes his republican platform and the failure to respond to our russian attack of our system. the failure to tell admiral mike rogers to give him the authority of the u.s. cyber command to respond and confront russia on these attacks. now we find that the state department has $120 million and spends zero, this is a broader pattern that i think is explicable unless if there is another part of the puzzle that we dont see. which is come kind of lempverag that moscow had. over president tru...

The idea that we would be so passive in the state department and the u.s. cyber command and its white house, i find it just inexplicable. i want to ask you about the gun legislation. >> this has been three weeks. lawmakers falling on the same side every time we have one of these mass shootings. >> i think they are. there will be a little bit of movement at the state level and oregon just passed some state measures. there maybe measures at the state level in florida. we are missing such an opport...

Last week that got swept up in everything else that happened was admiral mike rogers testimony before the arms services committee last week. the head of the u.s. cyber command saying were not doing enough, russia continues to attack our syste unabated, i havent be given the authority om the white house to do the things i believe need to get done. my question is if everyone knows this is a problem, everyone recognizes it continues to happen a couple of years after the presidential campaign and th...

Next election which admiral rogers, head of the nsa, said yesterday in i think it was the senate. that, to me, is one of the biggest questions now. the president is tasked, his oath of office is to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. and he seems to be refusing to do that because we know that the russians attacked our election. we know that theyre going to do it again. and he is refusing to give the nsa and the other intelligence agencies the directive and the au...

>> yes. >> reporter: why is that? >> as with anyone who doesnt answer questions, they ought to be subpoenaed. >> former white house chief strategist steve bannon and former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski also declined to answer questions about events that occurred after the 2016 election. the white house pushing back after the head of u.s. cyber command confirmed he has not been granted authority by president trump to stop russian election-hacking operations, to disrupt him. here is ...