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Investigation? no, i didn't know. i had the unfortunate experience of having to find these things out in the last few years of this nightmare. you know, i learned in 2018 i got a notification just like the ones we're learning about this week. i got a notification from my email provider that they had received a court order for process on my account a year earlier and had been prohibited from informing me about that for a year. when those things happen, john, it's one thing to have the president tweet nasty things about you and you realize this guy really hates me and he's coming after me and it...

Legal process. but, of course, only on one side of the aisle. so the way it was executed, to me, wreaks of political purpose. >> yeah. that's what we talk about when we talk about it being an un -- unprecedented. the scope and the size of it. and that's why there are, still, so many questions. despite that, director clapper, i mentioned earlier that republican chuck grassley has been in congress since 1975. said, today, that investigations into lawmakers and staff are nothing new. i get it. there are corruption investigations. we see them a lot. but secretly seizing communications data and the...

When he meets with putin in eight days from now? >> well, i'm quite sure that president biden is going to make it crystal clear to president putin that such behavior is unacceptable and trying to hide behind the guise that these are criminals and we don't control them is baloney. and if they don't, then that's sad commentary on russia. so i think he'll put it to him and i doubt that president biden will side with president putin who will deny all. >> yeah, much different with this president versus the last. helsinki 2.0 this will not be. good to see you, director clapper, thank you very much. ...

It's inconceivable to me that they would permit an attack on these sensitive infrastructure apparatus or capabilities of ours without it being at least sanctioned by the state. now, russia wants to be in a position of -- perhaps it's attributable, but also deniable. and i think we need to keep that in mind as we consider options to retaliate. >> director clapper, chris krebs, i really appreciate your time. thank you. coming up next, breaking news on the grand jury investigating the president's company and senior company executive who's reportedly testified.

Ransomware gangs akin to the terrorist threat of 9/11. i think that's in part what you're hearing here. at the same time, you're seeing the deputy national security advisor, the deputy attorney general, the secretary of homeland, all making a very clear statement that ransomware is a top priority for this administration. >> director clapper, the 9/11 commission report, there were failures leading up to the attacks, one of the biggest the failure of imagination. is our government failing again on that front? are they doing enough? >> i don't think there's a failure of imagination here. the inte...