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Propaganda. i think that's the working assumption right now, that it was prerecorded and isis has been aware of this for some time, and only decided to put it out after he was confirmed killed. with the timing of the release, it was really a few minutes after there was absolute confirmation that he was dead. >> we have also learned, paul, that amri was not only known to authorities and known to have said that he was planning an attack in germany, he was also on germany's list of the most dangerous islamists and potential terrorists there. they had known this for months. >> that's right. to ger...

Headquarters in moscow. but perhaps contractors. >> you say you caught them in the act of doing this at the democratic national committee. talk to us about that, how do you do that? >> the democratic national committee suspected something may be wrong. they brought us in and we deployed our falcon technology and picked up a trace of these two attackers. we saw them going after e-mail community servers, stealing e-mails from the dnc for a period of nine months going back to 2013. and then going after sensitive documents that the campaign was preparing on donald trump and other republican candid...

Launches a massive cyber attack. >> and the working assumption, everyone, evan, is that the russians were behind the cyber attacks against the democratic national committee and the wikileaks revelations as well. >> that's right, wolf. na they've been hacking not only the democratic national committee, other democratic affiliated organizations, but they've been passing this along the belief is to wikileaks and other websites as a way to sort of sow confusion and to disrupt the american elections. they've done this over the last couple years in other countries in europe and ukraine and other pla...

Together. they will not campaign together and he will not withdraw his endorsement because he takes seriously his role as essentially the senior republican in the land, and that as if the party overall is doing that and no plans at this hour to do that. >> what is the message, carol, paul ryan is sending to republicans? >> hard to read that any other way than they this donald trump has lost the race and needs to take care of what's most important to him. maintaining republican control of thes house. i also think you can't underestimate the republicans are worried that more will come out like t...

As we near the third anniversary of the deadly mass shooting at sandy hook, president obama pree president obama prepares to move forward on gun background checks without congressional approval. the white house could soon be finalizing new executive action. cnn's chris frates joining us now from the white house. chris, how soon do you think the president might be acting on this? >> reporter: that's the million-dollar question. the president has asked his team to come up with a plan, including expanding background checks. valerie jarrett says she hopes that will happen in short order. but congr...