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President vladimir putin. we are seeing these ransomware attacks by russian cyber gangs escalate. these attempts are trying to hit every single critical infrastructure industry that we have in this country. weve seen it hit meat processing plants. weve seen it hit the pipeline. we know theyve tried to get into our voting registration systems, our transportation grid is vulnerable. while the president ordered the federal government to baton the hatches here, he cannot do that with the private sec...

To stay on this story. senator bill nelson of florida basically tried to pull the fire alarm on this issue a little bit, he told reporters in his home state of florida that russian hackers have already penetrated some florida voting registration systems. ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. senator nelson said he and his fellow florida senator, marco rubio, had been asked by the top republican and the top democrat on the intelligence committee, senators richard burr and mark warner, they had bee...

Ranging doubt when it comes to trusting the outcome of an election. thats something florida is already very much at risk of. last week we covered this on the show last week. well stay on this story. senator bill nelson of florida tried to pull the fire loorm this issue a little bit. he told reporters in his home state of florida that russian hackers have already penetrated some florida voting registration systems ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections. he said he and his fellow florida senator mar...

The voter registration systems of a number of different states, arizona, illinois, but many others, in an effort to see whether or not they could actually fiddle with the registration. remember, voting machines are offline by and large and hard to mess around with, but the voting registration systems are a different thing. they are online. so, of course, if you can go in and say fareed moved from new york to chicago, when you show up at the poll booth they might say youre not registered here any...

>> great to be here. >> you have talked to so many experts, you have seen the war on intelligence, what do you have confidence that the russians did? >> you have seen the facebook ads, we know that they went through the internet research agency and now thanks to an indictment that just came out a little over a week ago, we know that gru, the russian military intelligence, worked hard to influence individual americans by pretending to be their neighbors instead of being a group of russians. we al...

Evidence that the russians meddled. whether they affected the outcome is another question, but they meddled and thats dangerous for democracy. >> several states had their voting registration systems successfully compromised by the russian government. >> we saw targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of that 21 were actually successfully penetrated. >> the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the russian government. >> one of president trumps most ...

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Not the other way around. go to xfinity.com/myaccount well, tonights breaking news theres new details how far russia went not just to flood with misinformation but also how to hack. the alleged leaker is facing charges. the intercept website broke the story. jim sciutto joins us now. so the substance of the document, lets talk about that. >> so this is something we knew some hints about before the election, that russia had had probing attacks or at least attacks traced back to russia, voting r...