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Russian systems at a depth and with an aggressiveness that has never been tried before." it is intended, "partly as a warning and partly to be poised to conduct cyber strikes if a major conflict broke out between the u.s. and moscow." this initiative has been carried out by u.s. cyber command, which is part of the u.s. military, and this is interesting. recent changes to u.s. law, thanks to both a presidential directive and thanks to a little-noticed new legal authority that was slipped into the military authorization bill last year. those new legal authorities allowed these kinds of actions t...

Got from "the new york times" as of this weekend that the u.s. cyber command has developed sort of remarkable new offensive capacity against russia, but i was very struck by a couple of paragraphs deep into that story in which pentagon and intelligence officials tell "the times" that the president probably wasn't briefed on that. in part because it's about russia and senior national security officials, including military officials, don't trust the president to be -- to have sensitive information, particularly when it comes to russia, because they're worried that he would either countermand it ...

>> according to the "times'" reporti reporting, they believe mr. trump had not been briefed in any details and broad hesitation to go into detail with mr. trump of operations against russia or concern over his reaction and the possibility that he may count count count count counter -- you will remember this and the russian ambassador of the ambassador and the foreign minister when trump were fed intelligence information and compromised methods necessary to national security. >> joining us now, our u.s. cyber command, he's the chief security officer at clarity. a security company that specializ...

You've got to see this from their perspective, not just the media in the u.s. >> it's fascinating, too, david, to look at that, if they go after president trump personally, russian media, what's the impact of that on this administration. >> that's a good question. it's not entirely clear at all to us, if the russians have to pick a side in the upcoming presidential election that president trump would necessarily be their favorite candidate. it's no the that he goes out and says anything aggressive about the russians, quite to the contrary, it's that his administration, as ian put out, has put ...

May not have trusted with this information >> yes that was the suggestion in the report but another little tid bit in that report was that there was a little bit in a major bill passed last year that i believe gave u.s. cyber command the authority to do more things without presidential approval and that's one of the reason it why this was able to go on without signing off with president trump. rick: specifically the article stated the president gave him the new authority to carry out just this kind of operation and they didn't have to check with him first. >> certainly and that is maybe why he...