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Effectiveness of these russian tactics was these pages would attempt to imitator mirror the talking.and act as a bait and switch. for instance, black lives matter in 2016. they would shift their talking points to be critical of hillary clinton in an attempt to diminish the turnout of a key part of her base. the question ahead of the mid-term elect, when you have 435 congressional race, more than 30 senate races, are these ads effective of a tactic, to affect specific parties and candidates the same way? the bottom line is they are choosing the most divisive political issues in an attempt to ke...

The protection of this election. and the hacking attempt, or the phishing attempt on senator claire mccaskill is an example that russia doesn't concern themselves with what we're going to do. >> what about the president threatening to veto the security clearances and former intel officers who criticized his response to russian interference. what's your reaction to that? >> it's just another example of the politics of personal destruction that president trump plays by. this is extraordinary. no one has ever done this. the last person who actually wrote down an enemy's list and decided to go aft...

Whether or not that happened to them this past year. we started seeing statements coming in until god bless wisconsin, the wisconsin statement finally explains what else was going on. in part, quote, "wisconsin is notified of russian hacking attempt." >> the state were free to disclose information. and some of them did. not all but some of them. homeland security knew by june that 21 states had been targeted by russian hackers during the election. they knew that and they announced that they knew in

With me. philip, can i get you on the record on the president's response tonight to your paper's blockbuster story about the russia hacking attempt. he basically said now we know that obama knew and didn't do anything. doesn't that just draw attention to the fact that he's done even less? >> yeah. two things come to mind. one is, if obama didn't do anything, what is trump doing? not really much at all. the other thing is, there's a lot of new information in that story, a breathtaking story, really. we already knew that obama knew before the election that russia was meddling in the election bec...

About their intentions? >> well, we already knew that there was a hacking campaign ordered from the very top, ordered from the kremlin, from putin's office. it shows how sophisticated these attacks are and also that they will try to get in to the voting booth. so it is a cautionary tale for the next round of u.s. elections. >> we heard james comey say during his testimony that we're not doing enough to respond to the russia hacking attempt. kimberly dozier, thank you so much for the time. >> thank you. coming up, they don't talk and they don't see each other. a look at the strained relations...