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Crooked hillary so badly. >> april 2016, seven months to election day, nine months since the first intrusion into the democratic national committee. the dnc's computer technician finally discovers the breach. the dnc notified the fbind hired the cyber security firm, crowd strike. crowd strike's forensic work quickly identified two culprits. both linked to russia. one dubbed fancy bear, the other cozy bear. familiar foes for cyber security experts. >> long before any of this transpired around the election, we've known them for many years. there's a lot of evidence this actor is russian or russi...

Trump's reluctance to accept intelligence and collusions about russia's meddling, have slowed efforts. there's this other issue that is ongoing, a frustration with the state department over the granting of visa's to people that u.s. intelligence suspect are intelligence officers. the state department would not comment on that for us. also, as i mentioned, the fbi has a robust and continuing counter intelligence investigation, which keeps an eye on some of this activity. >> shimon, thank you very much. i want to bring back my panel. i want to get your take, as a former intel guy, why now by the...

>> the first quiet warning came september 2015, when a mid-level fbi agent notified the democratic national committee that russian hackers had compromised at least one dnc commuter. >> they left a phone message at the help desk of the dnc, they didn't create it with the kind of seriousness i think it deserved. >> that was the fbi's first direct contact with the dnc, a message left for a low-level computer technician who did not return the call. >> it's a busy place they got a lot of stuff to do. i suspect if they had to do it over they'd do it differently. >> the employee did scan the system n...

Were, cyber weapon, pretty schism. it's not high-level stuff. >> that is one of the frustrations i think for all cyber security experts. >> russia had now successfully breached two democratic party computer systems. out of the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee. >> we were kind of blown away by the brashness that they were operating with. almost like they didn't anticipate any consequences for their action. >> back on the campaign trail, it was looking more and more likely to be hillary clinton. >> love trump's hate. >> versus donald trump. >> and we're going to beat crooke...

They're curious because of his background as a computer technician and the bizarre story alexis told police last month about hearing voices and microwave machines bombarding his body. police in rhode island alerted the navy police but they say it was never passed up the chain of command and he kept his job as a civilian contractor with the navy holding a secret clearance. >> obviously there were a lot of red flags as you noted. why they didn't get picked up, why they didn't get incorporated into the clearance process, what he was doing, those are all legitimate questions that we're going to be...