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Ground, your former colleagues, who are dealing with covert attempts to undermine democratic institutions in this country? when the president takes the positions on russia that he has taken? when he says some of the things that he has said about vladimir putin. what does that do for the men and women who are on the ground? >> it's demoralizing i would imagine. can you imagine sitting in there. you're providing this intelligence to him and he rejects you as an american who supports you and will take the side of somebody we know just did an information attack in 2016 against the united states. e...

See institutions' red lights flashing. what if this is the worst case scenario. imagine being in the intelligence agencies today and you've watched your commander-in-chief take the side of your adversary who struck you with an information attack in 2016, who is messing with you on many fronts against nato allies, who your president advances conspiracies that the kremlin might put out against u.s. intelligence agencies. we saw it with a tweet yesterday, this is a rigged witch hunt, the mueller investigation. russia, we agree. >> the russian ministry of foreign affairs retweeted the president of...

Meddling with vladimir putin as he will firmly ask. should the president not be beyond the asking phase of this specific element? >> he should be, victor, and he should also stop using the term meddling and fake news, because it's contributing to the types of attacks we're seeing. this was an information attack using cyber methods against the institutions of the united states. and every congressman, the president, and all military people take a vow, an oath to protect and defend the constitution against these kinds of attacks to maintain our security. that is not happening. he has to go beyond...

Cnn military analyst and lieutenant general mark hertling is with us now. thank you for with us. how vulnerable is this threat especially with the mid terms five months away? >> based on what we know, what the intelligence communities have told us, we are extremely vulnerable. not only because of the scanning of instruments, the election machines as was reported this week in congress, but also just the fact that we are incredibly vulnerable beyond just the hacking or scanning of machines. it is more than just an electronic hack. it is also an information attack. so when we talk cyber, the u.s....

Indictment? >> this indictment came as a huge surprise to most of us who have been watching this investigation very closely. i think what it clearly shows is that the investigation is perhaps nearing an end when we see these kinds of criminal prosecutorial allegations coming out. i would not be surprised if now we see more similar indictments against cyberattacks. even know this indictment did not connect the disinformation campaign that happened online and also in real life on u.s. soil there were real rallies organized in the united states but they didn't connect that to the cyberattacks tha...