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Bolder strategy to combat russian interference here in the united states. secretary state mike pompeo was asked about the story during an appearance on "fox news sunday". pompeo did not deny the times report. >> i see the story this morning. i don't have anything to say about the content of that. i do not talk about intelligence matters but president trump has been crystal clear during my two and half years in the administration. we will do everything we can to prevent any country from interfering in any election in the united states. america will continue to work hard. and part of the work ad...

July 2016 could have been considered a senior trump campaign official. with me now is ellie hoenig and elie was an attorney for the southern district new york and jennifer is a former federal prosecutor. let's just z-ief right in. just between this moment, you know, in front of the courthouse with roger stone and that entire indictment, what is your biggest takeaway? >> to me now is no collusion is just straight up empty slogan. we now know for sure that the russian effort to hack the dnc and to put those emails out through wikileaks has now landed squarely in the upper reaches of the trump ca...

Communist agency. the goal, amass ton of personal information on tons of you, american citizens. david is with us now. important story. good morning to you, david. walk us through how extensive this hacking effort is and just the big picture connection here, the web that china is trying to build. >> what is fascinating about this, poppy, is it does not look like if it had anything to do with stealing your credit card information or anything like that. it was an intelligence gathering operation and it started in 2014. now, if that sounds familiar, that's about when the anthem insurance hack hap...

Centrally -- this was a strategic effort on the part of russian military intelligence that would have ultimate direction from the president of russia to direct this activity against u.s. elections. another key point, i think, is the use of false identities. gloria mentioned guccifer 2.0. that and d.c. leaks, which many americans think may have thought was an activist organization comprised of americans. these are false identities. as we go forward into the 2018 midterms and future elections, it's so important that we take more strong efforts, as senator warner was describing, to address these ...

The department of labor. when it comes down to it, these hackers, the government says, were successful. they actually managed to steal academic data, other data amounting to a worth of about $3.4 billion. so these nine iranians are now under indictment, of course, they are in iran, and without that extradition treaty, they likely won't be sent here to the united states unless they try to travel elsewhere. and announcing these indictments today, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, he explained what was a very massive and complex hacking effort. so that indictment announced today. intere...