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Warrants. griff: your favorite "new york times" let me show you this everything you need particularly if you like john gray novels. u.s. spies paid russian peddling trump secret. now, here's the deal. the u.s. spies pay $100,000 to some shady russians who offer both the stolen nsa cyber tools they want to retreat and trump come kompromat. you are given the picture that the u.s. was there to recover these spy tools and had no interest, if you will, in more dirt on president trump. important to note, this is sitting president trump, not what we saw in the past, which was candidate trump. rachel:...

The firm says they are trying to gain access by sending highly sophisticated so-called phishing e-mails. let's bring in steve hall, cnn's national security analyst and former cia chief of russia operations. steve, good to see you. >> good to be here, martin. >> so, how are the hackers targeting the senate's e-mail system, and the more important question is, how vulnerable is that system? >> well, it's interesting. if you look back at the russian intelligence services history of doing this, they had about ten years since 2007 in the small country of estonia honing their cyberattacks and over th...

The expense of what, in the past has been influence for washington. that's the sense in which it is a contest between washington and moscow. >> reporter: senator cardin, always a vociferous critic of president trump, blisters the president and his team in this new report, for, as he puts it, turning a blind eye to the russian threat. >> never before has a u.s. president so clearly ignored such a grave threat and a growing threat to u.s. national security. >> now, tonight, a white house official pushing back at cardin, telling us that this threat is far from being ignored. they're doing a lot t...

Respect is important. russians have immense national pride. russia is, after all, the largest country on the planet. 48 times larger than germany. it encompasses 11 time zones and straddles europe, asia and the middle east. it is also a rich country, containing some of the largest deposits of raw materials from oil and natural gas to nickel and aluminum. culturally, it has often thought of itself as the third rome, preserving christianity even as roman fell to the barbarians. putin understands russia. but he also understands the world. he's not foolish enough to make frontal assault on america...

Country for instance russia. what it is similar to the wannacry hack attack that we saw a month or so ago is that it does use the same exploit. this eternal blue exploit that was released by hackers from a trove of nsa cyber tools back in march. as you pointed out, windows has come up with a patch. some people have updated their software, but what's really interesting about this particular attack is that it seems as though a number of companies hadn't updated all of their software. this has netted huge names, wpp, the world's biggest advertising company, so these companies are not facing a shu...