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Michael steele tlrchlts . >> there it is. >> and mr. stein, welcome. >> thank you. donny the suit is greater than your entire -- >> probably. >> even when i show the proper respect for the show and dress wa is a torial splendor i still guess abused. >> i'm not abusing you. that was a compliment. >> thank you. >> nobody wants to see that baby gap t-shirt, donny. >> brendan fraser? >> a good movie. yeah. all right. let's get to the "daily beast" big scoop. democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri first identified candidate targeted by russian hackers ahead of the campaign elections. >> th...

Going after the weakest link. i think the russian gru is capitalizing on these personal accounts and how people depend on them. >> this was something that was broken in "the daily beast" and they report in august of 2017 around the time of the hack attempt, trump traveled to missouri and chided mccaskill telling the crowd to vote her out of office. some wonder whether there's a little parallel going on, this is two years ago to the day in florida then candidate trump said this. take a look. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> is ru...

Today, we're under cyberattack from kim jong un, putin or a kid in his mom's basement or something. it wasn't immediately known who was behind the attack. but "the times of london" reports that russian hackers have been selling e-mail addresses and passwords of senior british government officials. >> we know that our public services are attacked. so it's not at all surprising that there should be an attempt to hack into parliamentary e-mails. >> reporter: the suspected goal of such an effort? >> i believe it has the hallmarks of political disruption. >> reporter: so far, there's no indication ...

Of those addresses in which hacking attempts had been made, at least some of those 17 definitively were computers in russia. now, what the hack attempt was there was not on computer systems that were used to tabulate the vote, but if you think about it, that doesn't necessarily matter. right? that specific doesn't matter, right? these particular hacking attempts in dallas county, they were apparently going after the voter file, the data base of registered voters. in dallas county, that's over 1 million people, your name, your date of birth, the address at which you're registered to vote. they ...

Administ administer said they followed that. to see if they had been hit by any of those ip addresses on that list of 600 sent out by homeland security, they got 17 hits. 17 ip addresses made an effort to attack the dallas county voter roles. they worked with federal authorities. they told the county at least 17 of those addresses in which hacking attempts had been made, at least some of those 17 definitively were computers in russia. now, what the hack attempt was there was not on computer systems that were used to tabulate the vote, but if you think about it, that doesn't necessarily matter....