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Not believe that this changed any of the vote counts. but clearly, wolf, the timing of this indictment as the president is preparing for his summit meeting with vladimir putin in helsinki in just a couple of days, he's obviously said that he's going to raise this issue with the russian leader. here the justice department has laid out in plain language exactly who in the russian military intelligence units were behind these activities, and we'll see whether or not this is something that the president is able to bring up with the russian leader. wolf? >> we'll see how that unfolds. thanks very m...

>> reporter: well, we're still assuming, first of all, that this summit will go ahead three days from now because we haven't heard anything otherwise to contradict that from the white house. and of course, it would involve a massive about turn by the u.s. president, for him to take the evidence presented today and say, okay, enough is enough, and i'm really going to hold russia over the fire for this. he certainly hasn't had that attitude so far, calling it a witch hunt, which by the way is exactly the same language, amazingly that, the kremlin uses when it describes these allegations. i've sp...

His team are not willing to make the facts of this indictment a top priority of the meeting in helsinki, then the summit should be canceled. next, on the question of election security, the congress has been working in a bipartisan way to make sure our election system is safe in 2018. as a matter of fact, we had hearings just this past week. but what we've lacked is any meaningful involvement from the administration and this white house. there needs to be someone designated in the white house to work with the congress, to make sure in a bipartisan way we keep our electin systems safe and secure...

That are teed up by this indictment. >> we know the u.s. intelligence community believes the russians are planning to do the same thing in the midterm elections coming up in november. >> and on that, wolf, if i can just add, because i'm glad the indictment goes into this because most americans are not aware of this and should be. not only was the dnc hacked and clinton's campaign manager hacked, the dccc was hacked. the russians played in house races, which means that if they followed playbook from the last cycle, they'll play in the midterms. we obviously need to be doing everything we can to...

Might take to be wikileaks. it's not named in the indictment but probably is wikileaks. that is more of a cut-out, where they work with the intelligence service providing the information. these individuals were really false identities who were intelligence officers or intelligence assets themselves. >> susan, you're our newest contributor. welcome to cnn. you spent a lot of time in russia. how do you think this indictment will impact the monday summit? >> well, it's very interesting, isn't it, to see the democrats very quickly coming out presenting a united front and suggesting that president ...