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Elections, where are the russians? from cnn politics, russian troll threat hasn't gone away as election day nears. are federal and state and local governments ready to protest or to protect, rather, these elections? we have michael daniel with us now. the president of cyber threat alliance and the former cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to president obama. thank you very much, mr. daniel, for being with us here. you had testified i know before the senate intel committee in june. and -- and there you said you certainly expected at the time espionage activity from russia, but you ...

Goes into detail how the chinese are trying to do this. they name a couple of people who the president is regularly in contact with. they are people who have extensive business connections in china. according to the reporting, what the chinese spy service decided to do is to get chinese business persons and other people related to the chinese government to essentially run influence operations, targeting those friends of the president to convince them of things that are beneficial to the chinese government. the president will then hear those things from his trusted friends and take action based...

Personal phone, white house officials said, because unlike his other two phones, he can store his contacts in it. that seems way more important than, you know, the national security consequences of the president's personal communication all being listened to in on speakerphone. joining us now is jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense. nice to have you here tonight. thank you for being here. >> hey, rachel. >> did you see this coming? >> i did not, but i think rachel tonight, we're seeing two aspects oh of the president's behavior that are troubling. first, he's...

Operations. both are going to be major concerns for the u.s. intelligence community. >> in terms of these influence operations, the "times" report goes into detail about how the chinese are trying to do this. they name a couple of people who the president is regularly in contact with. they are people who have extensive business connections in china. according to the reporting, what the chinese spy service decided to do is to get chinese business persons and other people related to the chinese government to essentially run influence operations, targeting those friends of the president to convin...

Right of boom in incident response phase with a data breach impacting as many as 50 million, possibly 90 million users of facebook. and as you pointed out, it's a large, complex attack, but we don't know who the hackers were, and that's really important information to learn. molly: why is that information so important to know, so you know where it'll come from next time? it can be combated in a broader way? >> right, that that's part of it. at ricks is a really -- attribution is a really important part of cybersecurity, we need to know who's targeting us. were these state actors like china, wh...