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Was so odor unusual about these communications? >> now, erin, what was so weird about his communications was that the russian bank repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of the particular server in the united states being used by the trump organization. in the computer world that is the same as repeatedly looking up somebody's phone number, doing it over and over again, while there is not usually a phone call, a particular group of computer scientists who maintained these leaked internet records, they were puzzled as to why a computer at a russian bank was doing this. was it trying t...

Fbi's counter intelligence team, the same one looking into russia's suspected interference in the 2016 election is still examining it. one officially spoke with said the server relationship is somewhat odd and perplexing and investigators are not ignoring it, but the fbi still has a lot more work to do to determine what was behind this unusual activity and whether there is even any significance to it. the fbi declined to comment. the white house did not respond to the asks for comment. >> homeland on a moment. jose, explain to our viewers what's so odd about these communications. >> wolf, what...

Agencies but other folks i've talked to in computer world that it was putin-aligned hackers in some form, wheer they were at arm's length from the government or not that hacked the dnc and podesta and the flynn moment because that is part of the reason there's a desire to track down the kislyak story which is that he called the ambassador on the day a bunch of diplomats got kicked out of the country and lied about it, lied to the vice president, lied to everyone whether they're talking about sanctions which is suspicius i s all heck. >> but we're also talking about general michael flynn who is...

This sort of russia paranoia is that it's an intuitive sense that will have traction with trump voters and another reason is that this is intelligence driven. it's driven by people in intelligence agencies who are leaking. they're setting the agenda, we can't verify this information. reporters are picking up citing anonymous sources. the leaks are sort of -- controlled and timed by people not in the public eye. this is not a good situation. >> right. and i sort of share those misgivings. to me the two things i keep coming back to is the following -- strong consensus not just the intelligence a...

Do personally, and the attackers have dive physicianed out these new connections, and they're using them to find new ways to attack, and security defense hasn't really kept up with that. it's a bit of an imbalance today. >> for people sitting at home and for you and me quite frankly, what do we do? do we just stop writing anything in an e-mail that could be misconstrued later on? >> the vast majority of digital communication is safe. cyber monday was a huge success, and most of what happens on the digital world is very safe. of course, we should be careful just like we do in the rest of our li...