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About cyber security as a growing challenge, then actually not placing personnel on the white house that are working on those issues. >> can you put it finally in perspective for me? dan coats is saying that the warning lights are flashing again with regard to russian interference. how under threat is the mid-term election? >> so i think the mid-term elections are a top threat target. the way that we would talk about that is, it is a target for cyber-enabled activity. i think that you've seen actions on both ends of that leading in to the mid-terms. so just last week it was reported that certa...

Confident they will and i pressed him, i fed is this turns out to be false, these assertions, your career is over, you're done, you won't be serving your client well, this will be a catastrophe and he said he understood that which gave me the sense he had access to or had seen something or told something he had a high degree of confidence that it would be verified and that it was quickly by the "new york times" and other news outlets so he has the same questions we all have which is there are two sides of these transactions. one is what are the sources and victor vekselberg is the most high pr...

Kushner. last fall, in november 2017, jared went along on the president's trip to china. after they all came home, in december 2017, u.s. intelligence officials briefed wider circle of trump, saying that a member of the president's family was being targeted by an influence operation. jared kushner still works at the white house. can't fire someone from the job of son-in-law, right? but he reportedly no longer has access to classified information. and now apart from turning up at places like last night's state dinner, mr. kushner has been playing a much lower profile. well, now, new scoop. fres...

Their founder, marina butina. >> aleksander torshin hired marina butina, who won a political contest put on by the kremlin. she comes from a hunting background, very comfortable with guns. she won a regional political competition, sort of caught the eye of aleksander torshin. she founded the group right to bear arms which turned into a russian clone in moscow of the nra, so promoting a sort of second amendment in russia, all kinds of advances in gun rights, which they've had very sort of modest success. but this effort was part of the -- you know, influence operation, essentially, to capture t...

They're going to do in an investigation, but man, if the president has really sat on his senior staff, pushed a bunch of them out in humiliating ways, it's not going to help them be more loyal to them in a case like this. >> okay. you wrote a very interesting article. i want to get to it right now. it's about how russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics. it's a departure from what we're used to hearing, in fact, because in this case, the russians didn't really need to create fake news as much as just kind of stir up some trouble. how did this influence operation work? >> it was ...