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Doubling down. why not? this increased threat about the elections and intelligence activity, dni, the director of national intelligence, dan coats, warned us, this is coming, all of the warning lights are flashing, as he said, after meeting the president in helsinki, if you're putin, what possible deterrent could you think of after that meeting? if you're putin, you think you have carte blanche to do whatever you want and the president is not going to call you on it. >> i have a few seconds left here. do you think he emboldened putin? >> i think he did. and the scariest thing is hybrid war fai...

That is close to -- incentive is probably too strong, but there's something wrong mentally. and i wonder if it's part of the issue he's got with russia and the issue. >> yeah. sources are telling cnn that agencies are ramping up the target in the west now that helsinki summit and the world cup have both ended. after the display from the president at the summit, why is he doing that? >> why wouldn't he do it? the problem here is, one of the reasons we're in increased peril, trump gave putin a pass on so many things, if i were putin, i would want to keep put ing carding on the table and doubling...

And in this particular case. they say it had no influence on the election, and occasionally you can get him to say something like the russians meddle. i thought it was striking when he said i agree with the agreement that the russians meddled, but he didn't say who or why. i would have been struck and impressed if they said that yesterday. >> it's worse than we know because your friend has said that the warning signs, the warning lights, are blinking red right now that russia intends to up end the upcoming midterm elections. and perhaps 2020. they are still at it, and they still have the goal ...

Administration has been clear, the director of national intelligence that just recently said this about cyber attacks. >> the warning lights are blinking red again. today the digital infrastructure that served this country is literally under attack. every day foreign actors, the worst offenders being russia, china, iran, and north korea, every day they are penetrating our digital infrastructure and conducting a range of cyber intrusions and attacks against targets in the united states. >> bret: when the president tells cbs i told putin, i let him know we can't have this, we are not going to ha...

Tenet, the system was blinking red. and here we are nur two decades later, and i'm here to say the warning lights will blinking red again, these actions are persistent, pervasive and meant to undermine america's democracy on a daily basis regardless of whether it is election time or not. >> it's only wednesday, but "the new york times" tries to put the week in context. quote, mr. trump's comments were the latest in a dizzy being collection of conflicting statements from mr. president trump since he emerged from the meeting with mr. putin. michael hayden tweeted, omg, omg, omg. here to help dig...