you are on with alina polyakova. caller: good morning. question -- as far as the hacking by the russians, the liberal media, they are saying the dnc was hacked by russia but there is no proof, number one. assangewo, julian basically told us who was the source. how you feel about that? there is no proof and it will not give over the server. a little fishy, don't you think? guest: i may have to disagree with you. i strongly believe our intelligence community. the cia, the fbi, other intelligence agencies have concurred that there was russian meddling, specificly russian meddling in the dnc system. it was attributed to russian-backed hacker groups, the so-called fancy bear and cozy bear groups. i have no reason to doubt the findings of professionals who serve the u.s. government. so why have our intelligence community agencies not turned over the more smoking gun style evidence? they released a report in early january of this year, a classified report that discussed what their findings were not revealing the methods. there was a clear reason

host: alina polyakova of the atlantic council, think you for joining us today. you can find more at atlanticcouncil.org. you can find her on twitter. thanks again. rule allows new consumers to join class-action lawsuits against banks and credit card companies. we will talk about what that means for consumers with new york times and is a reporter jessica silver-greenberg. later on, christian science monitor's simon motley discusses his piece on how the rust belt is trying to adjust to a more high-tech future. george w. bushts and bill clinton had a discussion of leadership thursday night at the george w. bush presidential library in dallas. you can watch the entire event at c-span.org and on tv tomorrow night on c-span at 9:40 p.m. >> when both of you became president, their father had been president and you had not had a other them as president but do it in around government. what was the biggest surprise? you have learned the secrets, the nuclear codes, all the crises we might be getting into, what was the biggest surprise you found and when did it you you are

host: alina polyakova of the atlantic council, think you for joining us today. you can find more at atlanticcouncil.org. you can find her on >> starting in approximately five minutes. thank you. >> to rhode island where they are holding the national governors association meeting. in a few minutes, they will hear ceo elona and spacex musk. you can see the room filling up with guests and interested listeners. it should be getting underway shortly. this is live coverage here on c-span. [indistinct conversations] : it's an honor to have you here for the final session of our 2017 summer nga meeting. moment like to take this to thank the governor of rhode island and all the citizens of the great state of rhode island for a spectacular three days here. [applause] i want to thank raimondo.nor r governor >> thank you for truly setting the bar high as we prepared to go to new mexico next year. on behalf of the governor, she sends her deepest regrets for not being able to be here herself and invite all of you to our great state. because of family issues, she was unable to

is alina polyakova, the director of europe research at the atlantic council.he is here to discuss russia's lobbying efforts, historically and against today's sanctions opposed against them. thank you for joining us. guest:. thank you for having me host: let's get

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