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Opening statement. we'll see. we all hope the president does well in this. >> well, blinking red is the terminology used by u.s. intelligence prior to 9/11. the fact they are reusing that term should cause concern to everybody. but it's interesting, you talk about ronald reagan calling the soviet union an evil empire and that sending shudders, if anything the president's tweets today didn't send shudders to the russian foreign minister. they retweeted and said yeah, we agree, it is -- was america's fault for being sloppy essentially and that caused the hack. >> well, you know, anderson, the na...

In fact, one of the reasons why putin wants the summit so badly because he wants to try to find a way to cooperate with the united states and show the rest of the world that he and the united states are moving forward. >> there's a tweet from one year ago this month i want to put up from president trump, after he met with putin, not in a summit but in a different event. putin and i discussed forming an inpen trabl cyber security unit so election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. stunning. >> well, it's talk about a unilateral disarmament, you know, you say arms control is...

justice. how concerned should americans be right now about russia continuing to interfere in u.s. elections? is this administration at the highest levels doing enough? >> thanks, anderson. we should be very concerned. when we speak about the timing of this indictment, everyone's focused on the trump/putin meeting, but one interesting aspect is that just hours after the indictment was issued, the head of u.s. intelligence gave a public speech in which he talked about the cyber threat we're facing today. he specifically noted the russians are the most aggressive adversary we face. frightening...

President putin? >> if i recall correctly, there was even a suggestion that the two countries be would work together on cybersecurity, again russia, the finger has been pointed squarely at russia for interfering in u.s. elections. thanks for the reporting and we'll keep in touch with you if. lets cross to get perspective with amy pope. amy, the u.s. and america's program at chatham house, also a former member of the security council under president obama. it's good to have you on the show. let's talk about what nic just explained. let's first listen to the national intelligence director dan co...

Even though he has the evidence now because we know exactly what the russians are going to do. they're already trying to push it off, say no, it's not true, it is a political scheme. >> nic robertson for us, thank you. president trump blames president obama for the russian meddling. director of national intelligence dan coats says threat of cyber meddling from russia isn't over. >> it was in months prior to september, 2001 when according to then cia director george tenet the system was blinking red. here we are two decades, nearly two decades later and i'm here to say the warning lights of b...