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Elections. this is a vital mission for us and the nation. it draws on our deep experience and expertise in continuing work in this area. our support has been ongoing and will continue through the midterm elections. we are also providing intelligence and information leads to the federal bureau of investigation on foreign adversaries who are attempting to sew discord and division within the american public. this information is shared with appropriate entities to alert them of malicious cyber actors. u.s. cyber command and the national security agency are tracking a wide range of foreign-cyber ad...

Say it again, putin is a thug and a bully. robert johnston joins me now. he's a veteran of the u.s. cyber command and the first to uncover the extent of russia's hacks into the dnc during the 2016 election. robert, i'm so glad you could be here, your perspective is so critical at a moment like this. let's just start right there with the fact that we already know that russia is targeting u.s. lawmakers, senator claire mccaskill. does the fact that they have already gotten through this election cycle, is it an indication that it may be too late to really try to stop them? >> so when i take a loo...

Positioning malware so they could pull the trigger when they wanted to but they're also sending the united states a message. we are in position to cause harm if we wanted to do it. and so, you the u.s. should be a little more careful. >> reporter: a spokesperson cautions while companies were targeted, the access was limited and would not have had impact on the larger grid if taken offline. the russians targeted other crucial sectors of nuclear power, waefrt, aviation and manufacturing. experts see the intrusions as a possible precursor of an attack that could in the event of all-out war devast...

Directly contradicted what the director of national intelligence, dan coats, said. >> it was in the months prior to september 2001 when according to then cia director george tenet, the system was blinking red. here we are nearly two decades later and i'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again. today the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. >> well, our country's intelligence community is taking that warning very seriously. "the washington post" reports the national security agency and u.s. cyber command have been directed, quote, to coordina...

They loosen the rules so the u.s. cyber command can go into foreign networks each and every day to go find the stuff. well, that's fine. it gets the source. but it also risks that you start up an earlier cyber conflict before you think about it. >> isn't that the answer to be more proactive than reactive? >> the model is counterterrorism. we came to the conclusion for a while you can't sit around and try to find the bomb maker in iraq. that's very much the model they're going to. the problem with it here is i think it's the right way to go. but if you don't have really serious control how that...