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Russia. of course this ongoing cyber campaign. it will come up again. the candidates need to be very careful. the fact is a sitting president or presidential candidate is not a by asset. what they look for something with special military technical knowledge or communications and signals and intelligence. think about the long and big spy cases. it was ridiculous to think a prominent american president could ever beat a russian asset. >> if they're sitting there prior to the election and looking at hillary clinton and donald trump, they want to be prepared for either one to win. >> yes and this ...

Grave injustice, and i think unfortunately in my line of work, which is white collar criminal defense, it happens more often than you think that the government gets things wrong. i think it highlights the bigger difficulty that prosecutors are having in the russia investigation at large. this isn't part of the mueller probe. this is in the d.c. federal court system, but it does have to do with sort of russia at large. and prosecuting these types of sort of spy cases are very ambiguous. they owned up, fessed up to the fact they made a mistake when they read these text messages. it was clearly a...

You look at vulnerabilities like, for example, spouse abuse, child abuse. saw that all the time in the security process. it weeded people out. lot of shoplifters. one of the most significant vulnerabilities locked at after major spy cases was financial vulnerability, and the u.s. government involved in terms of what kind of documentation they ask me about their financial backgrounds. i think not only of the mueller investigation and whether this suggests why jared kushner doesn't have security clearance. maybe he doesn't want to turn over the documentation that would allow the government to pr...

In fact, attorney in the 1990s worked on spy cases from cuba said that there were plots going after politicians, including menendez to try to deal with his political ambitions and mess him up. >> to smear him. >> exactly. >> and deal with that issue that way. dana, good reporting. thank you. let's dig deep were our national security analyst, the former cia operative robert baer joining us from los angeles. he said he wouldn't be surprised if the cuban government were involved. does this have the fingerprints, do you believe cubans could be behind a smear campaign like this? >> wolf absolutely....

The president to embrace and to put on the table bringing that money back at a rate that is far lower than what the corporate rate is in law now. so i do think it is a big step. i think it's good to see that the morning after, there's wiggle still left in this thing to talk through. i think that's a good thing. i have a question, if i could for you, senator chambliss. you're the vice chair, as joe mentioned, of the intelligence committee. how did the vote last week to potentially defund the nsa programs, how do you think that affected what might happen in the fall in terms of more transparency...