this very sophisticated scheme here. samantha, can the intelligence community get a handle on this before the next reaction or is the horse already out of the barn? >> i think so and i hope so. this is espionage 101. there is recruitment of local assets. these are old spy tricks. vladimir putin just did a good job of modernizing them. and i do think this is the most detailed public account that we have to date of how russia has loun launched their ongoing attack. but we know that the department of homeland security and director of national intelligence just briefed state officials on cyber vulnerabilities. so i think information sharing is definitely under way and i hope we're not too late. >> paul, to you. the response from the white house, the response from the president, they released a statement to the white house --