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Matt, good morning. what has been the rehabilitation of this and hokd this potentially sway the election? >> good morning. it's not clear how this is going to actually throw the election in either way. but it does appear to be strategically timed, as you mention. it came just moments before a two-day long media blackout when politicians can't discuss politics and can't defend themselves. >> today, the presidential race that rattled france rattled again late last night. news of a last minute hacking attack, 9 gigabytes of data, thousands of e-mails and documents all stolen a few weeks ago from ...

Influential country that's quaking at its foundations? even if you don't care about france, this election in france is an earthquake. it's an earthquake even if marine le pen does not win. the two main political parties in that country, their equivalent of democrats and republicans, those two parties have traded the president for 50 years. neither of those parties got a candidate into the runoff this time. they are also coping with russia and putin playing in their politics. vladimir putin is supporting le pen. russian brangs loaned her millions of euros. the "wall street journal" reports le p...

The two main political parties in that country, their equivalent of democrats and republicans, those two parties have traded the president for 50 years. neither of those parties got a candidate into the runoff this time. they are also coping with russia and putin playing in their politics. vladimir putin is supporting le pen. russian brangs loaned her millions of euros. the "wall street journal" reports le pen's opponent, the centrist emanual macron has been targeted by an intensive, high-level hacking attack a cybersecurity firm according to "the wall street journal" is due to publish a repor...

How is the administration dealing with being the richest and most influential country that's quaking at its foundations? even if you don't care about france, this election in france is an earthquake. it's an earthquake even if marine le pen does not win. the two main political parties in that country, their equivalent of democrats and republicans, those two parties have traded the french presidency for 50 years. neither of those parties got a candidate into the runoff this time. they are also coping with russia and vladimir putin playing very aggressively in their politics. vladimir putin is s...

Trapped with the information they had? >> i think that wikileaks, by virtue of the classified information they had and the fact that the russians knew what kind of classified information was there, that russia used that information as part of the hacking attack on the united states to influence our election. i would not be surprised if the fbi and the investigations that are going on confirmed that kind of collusion. >> thank you so much, former secretary of defense and former cia director and former u.s. congressmafor many years, leon panetta. thank you, sir, for coming on the program. up n...