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And i was really concerned to learn in november of a failure to notify multiple government officials that they were the target of a russian hack iing campaign. at least according to this report, 500 people were targeted in the past year. including officials as high profile as the former head of the defense intelligence agency, the former head of the air force intelligence. many of these people -- >> you have been watching the house judiciary committee and fbi director christopher wray sitting at the table in front of that committee answering questions. declining to answer some questions about ...

Characterization. very swrinteresting. you have this guy trying to reach out to hackers like cold calling, e-mailing these hackers seeking these deleted e-mails. it seems kind of clumsy. we know the russians were very sew fisted to their hack iing i doesn't necessarily fit the pattern and it also raises the question why they this guy peter smith is now deceased so he can't answer this question except to the extent he already did in the wall street journal story why he was taking this approach. that said just the fact he's clumsy and doesn't necessarily absolve him or michael flynn from trying ...

Well-organized, well-resourced, wide ranging effort, by russia use iing trolls and bots to ampy its messages across social media. these facts are not disputed by any serious person, so this is a yes on the checklist. hack iing and theft of politica information. throughout 2015 and 2016 russian intelligence services and state-sponsored hackers conducted cyber operations against u.s. political targets including state and local election boards penetrating network, probing for vulnerables and stealing private e-mails. attribute of these crimes to russian actors was confirmed in our last hearing an...

Distraction with the be birther lie and claiming fraudulent voting to take away from the real issue that his administration's culpability in russian hack iing. e we already know some of the senior advisers have misled or lied about their contacts with the russian ambassador. and john mccain pointed out the platform for the republican party convention was changed with a much more favor itable over ukraine. >> there's the issue of russia. what do you think is going to. happen tomorrow, ben? >> i think you're going to see this probably not all play out tomorrow. the second z issue is is there's e...

Donald trump was both coincidental and accidental and the russians didn't know what they were doing to believe that they had no interest in helping one candidate that simply is not credible. >> i understand that. let me play devil's advocate here. this happened before with intelligence assessments, which is political figures essentially it's a form of confirmation bias. they only see the intelligence that supports a point of view they have going into it. is there any chance here this is confirmation bias on the intelligence community in general or on those folks that are interpreting the intel...