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Speaking on behalf of the president that he believes russian trolls, russian cyber warfare activists were engaged in trying to influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential election? >> yes, he has said that. getting to those comments that you just mentioned, he's also affirming a fact that the cyber problem is not simply a russian problem. there are other malicious cyber actors, including north korea, for one, and that cyber threats are not just these influence operations. the cyber threats, there are a range of cyber threats, threats to critical infrastructure, threats to american intellect...

Have taken place? we talk about every day. >> reporter: there are political operatives and officials in the government who know what to avoid around president trump, so perhaps and spicer has been focused more on the agenda and we get the sense anything related to russia is an uncomfortable topic in the white house. but at the hearing with jeh johnson who served as president obama's homeland security chief. he talked about a frustration he had there wasn't a sense of greater outrage in real time in 2016. he outlined the series of public statements he made warning about this, raising concerns a...

Discover, certainly in the discover through intelligence information. most important to me, michael, was the front end of that comment which turned this issue into a larger globe wal, we got a cyber problem issue. i freely concede we have a cyber problem. that was not the issue yesterday. the point of that briefing yesterday, michael, was we got a russia problem. and the trump transition team tried to get off the x from that question by simply pushing it over here and saying we got to do better cyber security. they're walking away from the core issue, michael. which is the behavior of the russ...

The recent russian attacks are one part of a much bigger cyber problem. russian cyber attacks have targeted the white house, the joint staff, the state department, our critical infrastructure. chinese cyber attacks have reportedly targeted nsa, department of state and commerce, congressional offices, military labs, the naval war college and u.s. businesses including major defense contractors. most recently, china compromised over 20 million background investigations at the office of personnel management. iran has used cyber tools in recent years to attack the u.s. navy. u.s. partners in the mi...

Cyber problem. russian cyberattacks have targeted the white house, the joint staff, the state department, our critical infrastructure, chinese cyberattacks have reportedly targeted nsa, the department of state and commerce, congressional offices, military labs, naval war college and u.s. businesses including major defense contractors. most recently, china compromised over 20 million background investigations at the office of personnel management. iran has used cyber tools to attack the u.s. navy. u.s. partners in the middle east, major financial institutions and a dam just 25 miles north of ne...