with alex marquardt, cnn, washington. >>> and now to the big lie. one of the biggest spreaders of baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 u.s. presidential election is issuing an apology and retraction as part of a lawsuit settlement. right wing network news max reached the agreement with dominion voting systems executive, issuing a statement saying news max has found no evidence that dr. kumer interfered with dominion voting machines or software in any way or that dr. kumer ever claimed to have done so nor has news max found any evidence that dr. kumer participated with any conversation with members of antifa or directly involved with any partisan political organization. >>> president biden is reaching back to his past to help promote the future of this ambitious infrastructure plan. he spoke at an amtrak station in philadelphia friday, pitching his multi-trillion dollar agenda to the american people. cnn's jeff zeleny explains. >> reporter: we have to build back better and today we have a once in a generation opportunity. >> reporter: in phila

and as alex marquardt now reports, microsoft believes a russian group linked to the kremlin is behindt all. alex. >> reporter: email accounts in 24 different countries hit by hackers from russia's foreign intelligence service. government agencies, think tanks, human rights and humanitarian groups all targets. microsoft first reported the hack, saying the attackers used an email platform used by the american aid agency usaid. one email from this week promised a new document from donald trump on the election. instead, it contained a malicious link designed to allow hackers in and to infect other computers. it was a loud, brazen attack. the hackers likely knew they'd get caught. >> they seemed to not really care, right? they are -- they clearly know that this is going to be discovered. it's really hard to carry out a 3,000-person spear diafishing incident across governments all over the world and not get discovered. >> reporter: unlike last year's solarwind's breach that infiltrated at least nine government agency. >> we concluded that they had interfered in the election and solarwinds w

alex marquardt, cnn, washington. >>> with me right now to discuss these developments, michael zeldin,ral prosecutor and former assistant to robert muller at the department of justice, and he's also host of "that said". so good to see you. >> good morning, fred. >> so let me get started with your thoughts on these raids of rudy giuliani property. how much trouble could giuliani be in? >> well, that's a great question because we just don't know what is at the heart of this investigation. many have said that it concerns one count of rudy giuliani failing to register as a foreign agent for his work on behalf of ukraine. giuliani has denied that. his lawyer has denied that. others speculate this has to do with campaign finance violations and his dealings with others who are under indictment in the united states. but there's been no connection yet established that giuliani did anything that is criminally related to that. so there's a waiting for the shoe to drop moment here, but we don't know what's involved completely. >> we do know there had to be something very specific that they were go

as cnn's alex marquardt reports, a u.s.t women's and girls' rights in afghanistan could be at real risk. >> reporter: with u.s. and international troops on their way, things may soon get a lot worse for the people of afghanistan, especially women who have long struggled for the most basic rights. >> i believe we have to do everything in our power to support the women of afghanistan. >> reporter: new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen managed to get an intelligence report declassified which paints a grim picture for afghan women. the taliban, the report says, would roll back much of the past two decades progress if the group regains national power, progress it states that would be at risk after coalition withdrawal even-of-. even if the taliban doesn't take full control, it says, widespread back lash against women, education outside the home, how girls dress would be at jeopardy and child marriage and honor killings would likely persist. senator shaheen says she's spoken with afghan women over the years who fear the

>> all right, alex marquardt, thanks so much. chris krebs, good to see you as always.o 3,000 different accounts across 150 organizations. how sophisticated was this attack? >> jake, thanks for having me on. you know, it actually reminds me of some of the spear phishing or email-based attacks that the russian sbr, which is the foreign intelligence service, the same from the solarwinds attack, that they used to use, kind of loud, almost spray and pray and hope they get somebody to click through. fire eye, one of their seniors said the same thing today on twitter. look, i think that this is pretty standard operating procedure for the russian intelligence service right now with the intent of collecting as much diplomatic intelligence as they can. >> microsoft says that they think these are the same hackers from the solarwinds attack in 2020. we know that group was affiliated with the dnc hack back in 2016. that means of course over the period of three different administrations, obama, trump, biden, nothing has stopped or changed the behavior of these russian operatives. >>

cnn's alex marquardt reports on war games in eastern europe. >> reporter: at the same time that russiamention with ukraine the u.s. and nato allies have launched military exercises across europe. these exercises have been planned for a while but this time something not lost on anyone. over the past few days we have covered a number of these exercises at sea, on land and in the air and got exclusive access to some of the most elite u.s. forces. a team of u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s, rifles drawn, more quickly through the pitch black of a warehouse on the black sea. laser sights invisible to the naked eye finding and taking out enemy fighters. tonight the dead wounded and bullets are not real, but part of an elaborate series of nato military exercises involving almost 30,000 soldiers from 26 countries. >> it's showing everybody that we have a capability and we can use it when necessary. >> reporter: cnn got rare access to some of the most elite u.s. troops in the world. taking part in a unique training called trojan footprint that is across eastern europe, working with force spain, georgia, roma

cnn national senior correspondent alex marquardt got access to the elite service members as navy zalesa with forces as russia and ukraine are in a standoff. >> reporter: a team of u.s. navy zales rifles drawn move quickly through the pitch black of a warehouse on the black sea. >> here we go. here we go. >> reporter: laser sites invisible to the naked eye finding and taking out enemy fighters. >> shooter down, shooter down. >> let's go. >> break out, break out. >> reporter: tonight the dead, wounded and bullets are not real. >> hurry up, hurry up. >> reporter: but part of an elab rat series of nato military exercises involving almost 30,000 soldiers from 26 countries. >> this is just showing everybody that we have a capability and we can use it when necessary. >> reporter: cnn got rare access to some of the most elite u.s. troops in the world, taking part in a unique training called trojan footprint that's across eastern europe working the forces from spain, georgia, romania, ukraine and more. it could not come at a more tense time with russia recently ratcheting up its aggression send

our alex marquardt has more on this. that is significant.er it is, that actually wasn't fully assessed. >> well, this indicates an issue that the intelligence community grapples with across the board. that they have a staggering amount of data to sift through. and in this case, it would look like signals intelligence or chinese communications, conversations. phone calls, emails. anything that would indicate what the chinese know about how this virus broke out, who got sick, how it spread. what we do know, what we have reported is that a number of the workers at the wuhan lab were hospitalized in the fall of 2019 with flu-like symptoms. many people have jumped on that, particularly supporters of president trump as evidence that the virus leaked from the lab and that the chinese covered it up. that is not a smoking gun. the virus could have gotten into the lab with the workers. we don't know exactly what they got sick with. in fact, what is clear is that the intelligence community is still very much trying to figure this out and that they have

alex marquardt, thank you for the reporting.he agenda for the summit discussions about 2020 election interference, back to 2016 if you want. the russian troop build-up with, the poisoning and the jailing of aleks aleks alexei navalny. you're nice for a few weeks in advance to set up a summit mood. putin is poking the president in the eye here. >> that's right, it's a long list and it's gotten longer. this comes at a tough time for the president, they're getting ready for the summit and the white house is not going to disagree with you he's a bad actor but they are hoping to go into this, they are talking about how it is important to engage in diplomacy, even with, you know, people that you don't always get along with and they're trying to move forward with this but this certainly adds to the tension, is a further escalation, and makes this media a lot more complicated. >> it was complicated to begin with, even without particularly aside, if you will, because the trump relationship with putin was so interesting even when the trum

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our senior national security correspondent alex marquardt has more. tell us about this attack, alex. >> it's a huge series of attacks that affected 3,000 email accounts across 150 organizations most across the united states. most were humanitarian rights organizations this. is according to microsoft who first detected and reported these attacks. the actor behind it is the same russian actor who is behind the russian solar winds hack which the u.s. government said just last month was carried out by russia's main service which is called fvr. they have sanctioned russia for that as well as interfering with the election against joe biden. democrats were kicked out from the embassy here in washington and that did not stop russia from carrying out more of these sinister cyber attacks. now, the timing of this is critical. you mentioned it. it comes less than three weeks before president biden and vladimir putin are set to meet face-to-face in geneva. they've been a major factor. of course, this is only going to make things worse. i did reach out to the white

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cnn senior national correspondent is alex marquardt is he joins us now -- he joins us with that. here it is. >> reporter: when federal agents swooped in this week, raiding the new york apartment and office of rudy giuliani. they were reportedly trying to zero in on the role that giuliani played in ousting the former-u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. according to "the new york times," one search warrant stated that it was seeking evidence, related to the yovanovitch ouster. fbi agents seized giuliani's electronic devices to investigate communication he had with ukrainians about the effort. >> that warrant is completely illegal. >> reporter: on fox news, giuliani denied that he was acting on behalf of ukrainians, and blasted the prosecutors' decision to search his home and office. >> there is no justification for that warrant. it is an illegal, unconstitutional warrant. one of many, that this department of injustice, tragically, has done. >> reporter: giuliani, trump's personal attorney, met with ukrainian officials as he attempted to dig up dirt on joe biden. his boss