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Ukraine have the potential to really elevate the threat and the environment in the united states homeland. how concerned are you right now about the safety of the united states itself? >> the capability of the russians to launch attacks within the united states that's obvious. they have done it in our elections in 2016, particularly. they could use not only a kgb and other russian entities but criminal associates to do it and try to hide their tracks. that's why we are on alert. we are communicating to our major infrastructures, financial institutions of the possibility we're prepared to react...

Part of cyber comm that we do need to be more capable and possibly on the offense. >> "the washington post" you just quoted or that you referred to reports that cyber comm is not exploring the idea of exploiting vladimir putin becausing in the words of "the post" it would be too provocative. >> i think we ought to have that capability. i would await a strategic decision based on all the factors including whether or not the russians continue their attack on us before making any decision of that kind. but in general i support the approach of using the internet to advocate for democracy just as v...

To them. and i'm particularly concerned about election security because already as our intelligence community has said publicly, the russians are attacking us. and what's encouraging about the report in "the washington post" is it reflects a view on the part of cyber comm that we do need to be more capable and possibly on the offense. >> "the washington post" you just quoted refers to cyber comis not referring to the idea of exploiting vladimir putin because in the words of "the post" it would be too provocative. >> i think we ought to have that capability. i would await a strategic decision b...

Comm acknowledging that the russians are in fact attacking while president trump says he believes vladimir putin that they are not doing so. >> senator, you said previously at hearings on this topic that you wished the u.s. public could be aware of some of cyber comm and america's cyber capabilities. and you've lamented how little the american public actually knows about u.s. cyber successes. what do you mean by that? >> that's a really profoundly important question. you know, as a united states senator my colleagues and i go to all kinds of classified briefings. and after many of them are don...