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Exwives and exgirlfriend. How does the fbi fit into that. We just learned some very interesting if not completely clear information from the head of the fbi director. I want to bring in chris cillizza, who is here with me to discuss this. There is a lot to unpack here from Russian Meddling in the election and how that feaffects the midterms coming up. The timeline had it comes to rob porter, you know what, pause for a moment, chris, lets return to the testimony at the Senate Intelligence committee. Theyre out in the community, and i can tell you the Community Values what they do on the island....

The bombing targeted religious scholars who had gathered in a hall to market the birthday of the prophet muhammad. the security situation has deteriorated in recent months, despite diplomaticest ic effort end the war. in yemen, starvation is one of the most brutal killers. 75,000 children under 5 may have died from hunger or disease. for more, cnn's ben wedeman is live in beirut, lebanon. thanks for joining us. what does this new analysis tell us from how severe the humanitarian disaster is in yemen. >> reporter: well, bianca, war is always an obscenity. but this report underscores how

Significant effort i'm happy to tell you about in closed session, and it is not just our effort, it is an all of ic effort. there may be others participating as well to do our best to push back against this threat. it's not just a russian threat, it's the iranians and chinese. >> i understand, director, we have mutual threats. but one threat that has been central to our -- and you've testified this publicly -- the last election there was a russian influence. this election they seemed to be more prepared. they've learned their lessons. the simple question i pose, has the president directed the ...

Russian activities not only reporting on it but tasked with countering those activities? are you aware of any type of interagency group, any intergovernmental groups and state elections are critical? >> well, we essentially relying on the investigations that are underway. both for this committee f, as well as the special counsel. >> you are not taking any specific steps sto disrupt russian activities that are occurring >> we take all kinds of steps to disrupt russian activities in terms of what they are trying to do. i'll turn it over to director pompeo. >> is that -- are you finished, mr. coa...

>> is a military option still on the table? >> well, i think you've heard the president say that, you know, no commander in chief puts -- takes options off the table one way or the other here. but what he has also been clear is that we believe diplomacy is the right way to go at the moment. we believe, as i indicated a minute ago, that our diplomatic efforts over the course of the last 15 or so months have resulted in a weaker, more isolated iran. we think that's in our interests. frankly, we've seen from our -- our allies and our friends, from great britain to france to israel all strongly su...