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Agencies, civilian and military who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks come from the highest levels of the kremlin and they are designed to influence our election. i find that deeply disturbing. >> secretary clinton -- >> she has no idea whether it's russia, china or anybody else. >> i am not quoting myself. i have 17, 17 intelligence -- do you doubt 17 military and civilian agencies. >> yeah y doubt it. i doubt it. >> why was donald trump so determined on keeping russia off when it came to the hacking? let's discuss. the new article from kurt, senior "newsweek...

Those entities may have certain conflicts, they may have certain interests, there may be debts that are owed to people, they might be in league with unsavory folks, kurt eichenwald has documented that. we all knew nothing. it's a black box as we step towards what could be the entirely unprecedented situation of the president of the united states operating the family business essentially out of the white house. michael? >> yeah, well, a couple things. first of all, i think there's two sort of takeaways from all this. first is the obvious one. there is something of a pattern here of when you ask...

It to the court, they tell the court, oh, we made a mistake. in some instances, the court expresses disbelief. in another instance, they impose sanctions. in one where they had the server, the disappearing server that reappeared, court came to distrust the trump organization and donald trump by so much that they said, we are sending an independent investigator into the trump companies and they're going to do the search. we're not going to rely on donald trump to produce the documents and found every e-mail that proceeded the time that was important. there was the controversy of that, it depend...

Course of decades, donald trump's companies have systemically destroyed or hidden thousands of e-mails, digital records, and paper documents demanded and official proceedings often in defiance of court orders. kurt eichenwald, senior writer for "newsweek" wrote that article. over decades. that's a time frame that predates e-mail. what did you find? >> that's why it has documents. back in the '70s, they were destroying documents when the federal government was seeking access to them. they were playing basically hide the ball. they would get orders to turn the documents over and not turn them ov...

>> they tend not to respond to my questions, but i did have one instance. i had the general council of the trump organization in an instance where they failed to produce a document to the other side and then later acknowledged that the document existed. he said that was my fault. trump wasn't involved. >> kurt eichenwald. senior writer, "news week." thank you. >> thank you for having me. paul ryan casting his early vote in the latest republican to draw fire and apologize for outrageous comments this campaign season. stay with us. out your job, maybe let's play up the digital part. but it's a...