is reporter eric geller, who covers cybersecurity for politico. so, eric, how many security experts and agentses are we talking about, and at what level? >> so these are the people who are charge of the largest groupings at the f.b.i., the division, and then the braonhes that si top of that. so there is a cyber division that was created at the beginning of the last decade it's about 15 years old at this point. wid recently the head of that division, alon his deputy, left, and his boss also left that headed the bnch that's on top of the cyber division. so these are the officials who set these are the people who decide where resources are going to be spent, howgents e going to be utilizeed in the field. so we're talking about kind of high-level turnover, at righ now there aren't people in place deciding how to shape that mission going forward. >> stewart: has therbeen an explanation of the brain train? >> this is sort of a function of coincidence. agents have to retire at the age of 57, and all four people we wrote about in our recent story joined th

host: after that briefing, politico cyber security reporter eric geller had this to say. the briefing with the administration, the most unified -- it was a striking contrast to the president's muddled comments about interfering alongside vladimir putin where trump shocked even his own aides by seeking to give equal weight against the conclusion of his own intelligence chief. yesterday on the sunday shows, this topic came up. senator amy klobuchar was on meet the press. i am very concerned that you could have a hack that finally went through. you had 21 states that were hacked. you did not find out about it for a year. there is now a requirement that they tell the individual secretary of state immediately. you also have the fact that you have the president undermining this on national tv. still after his security people. they go in front of the people and say this is happening. he says that night at a rally in pennsylvania that it is a hoax. there are some very good people working on it. i would love to see this broadened out so we start to discuss the threats to our power