even in the john podesta case.son said this is not a legitimate e-mail, but somehow it got transcribed this is not illegitimate. . the dnc took far too long for experts, both the fbi and the -- i don't know if i have the name right, but the private sector organization that came in and did analysis. it took too long, given the gravity of the situation, for that to get resolved. so i think in retrospect, yeah, the movement that phone call came in, the dnc -- the leadership at the dnc should have been alerted and they should have had people crawling all over that place figuring out what happened and how to plug the leaks. >> you mentioned adam schiff, the ranking democrat on your committee. he's said that the obama administration should have done more to counter russian interference. do you agree with that, should they? >> i absolutely agree with that. look, what the president said that there was some sort of collusion or that president obama did nothing is absolute nonsense. president obama mobilized the intelligence

podesta's i.t.erson wrote back calling the e-mail legitimate. >> he meant the opposite. >> it was illegitimate. the rest is history. >> jim sciutto joins us. it's unbelievable that that one key error by an i.t. person who should have known better started this whole thing. >> we've all used auto correct. and that's part of the story, part of the broader story that at the end of the day, a lot of russia cyber hacking tools were pretty blunt instruments. spearfishing has been around for a long time. it opened the door to some 50,000 e-mail, and those e-mail were in effect weaponized and released pretty much every day leading up to the election, and they had, i really don't think you can argue that they had an enormous effect on how the election was covered going into the actual voting. >> do you look at the dnc response to this? everything i've read on it, it just seems like early on, they just didn't take it seriously. >> there is a lot of blame to go around here, and not just john podesta's cyber sec

john podesta testifying behind closed doors. roger stone, a longtime ally of donald trump, we also learn is going to be testifying before that very same house committee. what do we know? >> yes. roger stone confirmed yesterday that he is going to testify before the committee on july 24. he has said repeatedly he wanted it to be an open session. the xh tcommittee request it be closed. here is the statement that roger stone gave me yesterday. i am confident that podesta most likely repeated his lie that i knew about the hacking of his e-mail and i'm anxious to rebut this falsehood. i'm unhappy my testimony will be be in public. i believe it's important to resolve the problem of russian collusion with the trulmp campaign that i believe is non-existence. the lie is the tweet that came from roger stone in august of 2016 when he said john podesta was next in the barrel. two months later, wikileaks released podesta's e-mails. some raised connections between the two. roger stone maintained it was not about john podesta's e-mails and it

it's not dissimilar to what we saw for john podesta.we have seen other people in things related to this investigation testify in public, but this is different. i do think it was interesting. stone's statement we read before was he was eager to talk to them, eager to testify and to talk about collusion which he believes doesn't exist and that i believe, caveat, is something i have not heard him say before. >> gives some wiggle room. >> not really for himself but about other people. i can't speak to the actions of other people. it's not dissimilar from what we heard the president say which is i can only speak for myself. >> we had stone on here. we tested him on these different principles, his main avenue of discussion with them is going to be about his own social media activities, what he knew from some of these sympathetic hacker types. it was an interesting match-up, david gregory, of podesta and stone. you can look at it in two ways, political candy, but i wonder what it means in terms of what path they're on in terms of the investiga

podesta, podesta never said anything. he didn't try to fight back or anything.ackon didn't try to fight when he was asked who authorized these? >> when the report comes out before i leave office that will have drawn together all the threats. theirt want to step on work ahead of time. the intelligence i have seen gives me great confidence that the russians carried out this of john podesta and the hack of the dnc. but again i think this is why i want to report out so that everybody can review it. briefed and this has been provided on a bipartisan basis. you have seen the evidence, the folks don't dispute it. >> martha, i think what i want i give thee of it is intelligence committee to gather a chance to gather the information. not much happens in russia without vladimir putin. there's not a lot of debate and democratic deliberation when it comes to policies directed at the u.s.. we have said and i will confirm and i will let you make that as to whether they are high-level official if they quickset was president obama the in our meddling democratic line. do you thi

podesta was a closed-door meeting as well. roger stone wanted it to be public, of course. >> reporter: that's right. closed-door session for roger stone. that's going to come in late july. the significance of this, chris, is house investigators are now digging down into one of the more mysterious avenues of russian interference in the 2016 election. they are now looking into the question whether that long-time ally of president trump, roger stone, somehow had fore knowledge that damaging information was going to come out about the hillary clinton campaign including the e-mails of clinton campaign chairman john podesta who also appeared in closed session before the committee just yesterday. roger stone, of course, denies that he had any fore knowledge. he did issue a statement which, among other things, referred to podesta's testimony which las not been made public. that statement says, i'm confident that podesta most likely repeated his lie that i knew in advance about the hacking of his e-mail, and i am anxious to rebut this

we're back with former clinton campaign chair john podesta. we'll talk about that.nd cybermeddling in the united states election. but first, the latest on the various probes from our justice correspondent pamela brown. pamela. >> that's right, wolf, committees in both the house and senate are ramping up requests for the white house and their probes into russia's meddling in the u.s. election, seeking information about jared kushner's security clearance and whether any tapes exist of conversations between president trump and james comey. >> reporter: tonight, the investigation into the russian election meddling is ramping up as congressional entities expand their scrutiny. the senate finance committee is examining data from the treasury department to determine any potential ties between trump and russia. >> one of the areas that we've now received two batches of information from treasury. and we may make more requests we're just starting that review. >> reporter: commit chairman richard burr feels confident that the committee will be eventually be given actos is the

john podesta says he was happy to cooperate with investigators, including the hack of podesta's own e-mailsde public by wikileaks during the campaign. it is the subject of the cnn special report tonight, the russia connection, inside the attack on democracy. jim sciutto anchors that special report. here is a preview. >> in addition to the organizations that were targeted, multiple individuals were targeted with spear fhishing e-mails that resembled google warnings. >> john is the director or intelligence analysis at the cyber security firm. >> they clicked on those thinking they were security warnings, and those basically transported them to a place where the adversary could collect their credentials and reuse them to gain access to their accounts. it was a realistic e-mail. it looked fairly legitimate. >> a prime target was the chairman of hillary clinton's campaign, john podesta. >> there was a google alert that there was some compromise in the system and to change the password. >> this seemingly benign message was a spear phishing e-mail that prompted him to change his e-mail immediately

it warned someone just used your password and prompted podesta to change his password immediately by clicking on a link. it was signed, innocuously, best, g-mail team. >> it actually got managed by my assistant who checked with our cyber security guy and through a comedy of errors i guess, he instructed her to go ahead and click on it and she did. >> the fatal error, podesta's i.t. person wrote back calling the e-mail legitimate, when, in fact -- he meant to say the opposite, right? >> he meant to say it was illegitimate. he said it was legitimate. the rest is history. >> one typo, one click, and russian hackers had gained free rein throughout the e-mail of the man running clinton's presidential campaign. >> the initial weapon as it were, cyber weapon, pretty schism. it's not high-level stuff. >> that is one of the frustrations i think for all cyber security experts. >> russia had now successfully breached two democratic party computer systems. out of the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee. >> we were kind of blown away by the brashness that they were operating wi

podesta beckoned him with a quick not. you go in there and deal with him.aul gathered himself and walked into find the former presidentmt sitting in a chair. it was wearing a suit and parent leather gloves. his arms were crossed. even if it hadn't been audible through the walls of thehe boutique it would been clear he was in a fall mood. his eyes were fixed on paul. if there is a rude time to know my stuff, this is it bill fired questions at him. what is outstanding in polk county, what about johnson county in cedar rapids? paul walked into the state were caucus results had not been reported county by county. slowly his anger subsided. even if his anxiety didn't. hillary had gotten out a to lead to where she thought should be on caucus night.on sanders was slowly closing in on her.repeat after paul briefed bill, the two men repeated their conversation in the room where the rest of hillary's team was assessing the situation. billboard down on paul, one source in the room noted a shift in bill's personality. usually when you're with him he's a storyteller. on

podesta beckoned paul with a quick not. you go in and deal with them.aul gathered himself and walked into find the former president sitting in a weather chair. bill was wearing a suit and apparel leather gloves. his arms were crossed. even if it had not been audible through the walls of the hotel it would've been clear that he was in a foul mood. his eyes were fixed on paul. if there's ever a time to make sure i know my stuff, this staffer thought, this is it. bill fired questions at him. what is outstanding in polk county? what about johnson county? what about cedar rapids? paul walked bill through the state and work caucus results haven't been reported county by county. slowly, the president's anger says subsided. even if it's a untried anxiety did it. hillary had a lead as to where they thought she would be on caucus night. sanders was slowly closing in on her. after paul big briefed bill they repeated the conversation in the room where the rest of hillary's titeam was assessing the situation. bill bore down on paul again. one source noted a market s

he says to rebut podesta about whether stone knew in advance about the hacking of his e-mail. says he'd prefer that his testimony would be in public. the goal of that investigation, the oathers a others going on, getting to the bottom of russia's interference in the election. we don't know how it's all going to end, of course, the pieces we do have make for a fascinating cnn special report. jim sciutto hosts "the russian connection: inside the attack on democracy." that's coming up next on cnn. thanks very much for watching "360." see you again tomorrow night. that special report starts right now. >>> the following is a cnn special report. >> the nation's bitter adversary. >> they're coming after america. >> dangerous and deceptive. >> a reasonably realistic e-mail. >> he meant to say illegitimate. he said it was legitimate. the rest is history. >> their weapons, insidious and unsuspecting. >> they're looking to weaponize information. >> threatening american votes and striking at the heart of democracy. >> do you think they see their interference in this election as a success?

did we learn anything about what podesta actually said to the committee. >> reporter: john podesta testifiedouse intelligence committee yesterday. we don't know a ton about what he said besides what he has told us because it was a closed session. as you recall, the leak of these e-mails was a pivotal moment of the election, because it really revealed the inner workings on hillary clinton's campaign. we found out about their strategies on how to defeat bernie sanders, who was becoming an increasing threat. we found out about her staffers' concerns of paid speeches and even what jokes she was going to tell at dinner that night. now, yesterday, john podesta was given the opportunity to throw barack obama and his administration under the bus for the way they reacted when they found out that the russians were trying to interfere in the election, and he declined that opportunity. he said that they made the best judgment they could when they found out about that because it was an unprecedented attack that we hadn't seen before. now that is not what we've heard from donald trump. as you've seen on t

it is likely podesta continued his lie that i knew about this e-mail.py that my testimony will not be in the public but believe it is more important to resolve the question of russian collusion with the trump campaign. back now with david gergen and david axelrod and robby mook. how big a problem is roger stone for the trump administration when it comes to this investigation? because he says, look, he can explain it all and there was nothing there? >> i think he could be in very deep trouble. if any of the statements, and, as you said multiple times, he claimed the contact through julian assange, he predicted that john podesta would be in the barrel way back in august. if those statements are true, if what he was saying at that time is true, he's in very big trouble and the trump campaign is in very big trouble. so i'm frankly surprised that he is willing to testify. if his story is different than the story he was repeatedly telling before the lelection whn he maybe didn't take this very seriously or any conversations with wikileaks very seriously, his

committee just yesterday and roger stone putting out a statement reading in part, i am confident podesta most likely repeated his lie that i knew in advance about the hacking of his e-mail and i'm anxious to rebut this falsehood. i'm unhappy it's not in the public but i want to resolve this. stone said he had communicated with wikileaks founder, julian assange. later that month he predicted it would be podes stas time in the barrel and later said he was talking about business dealings and then in october is when he wikileaks started releasing podesta e-mail. podesta saying he doesn't blame the obama administration for dropping the pal in the russian interference. >> i think the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of the fruits of russian cyberactivity and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. >> by the way, in addition to the remarks about assange last year, it shows roger stone had some communication with gussy fer 2.0 who claimed credit for hacking the democr

department allegedly helped hackers gain access to the e-mails of clinton campaign chairman john podesta is the news this morning well according to a new documentary on russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election race anyway it's been aired in the last few hours by the american network c.n.n. kara was what she and i took a quick scooter it just now lots of drama there lots of dramatic soundbites lots of dramatic music but i didn't get to see it all after say you watch more of it was that smoking gun. well kevin this is a special report that i add to viewers just a few hours ago as you said and it was billed as the first comprehensive telling on television the talk of the twenty sixteen race with geography lessons for the american league and the pup. about more still to come now who wouldn't want to watch this it sounds like c.n.n. is finally going to lift the lid on all this unsubstantiated evidence unverified source it's been used to suit themselves almost exactly it's been using this to russia for almost a year now so there's going to be a lot of disappointed viewers

john podesta's whose hacked personal e-mails were at the focal point of the election.e two-hour interview, podesta was tight-lipped on what he told the panel on what he knew about russian hacking, take a listen. >> obviously investigating russia's attempt to influence the 2016 election. they asked me to come forward to give, to the best of my knowledge, what i knew about that. and i was happy to cooperate with the committee. in their investigation. of russian interference with the democratic process in the united states. the chairman asked me to respect the fact that i would -- that the specific questions and answers would stay in the room. and not come out here to the cameras. >> meanwhile, the lawyer for the longtime associate of president trump roger stone has announced his client will appear before the house intel committee late next month. his lawyer said that stone had asked for a public hearing to address his communications last we're with wikileaks, the group that published podesta's e-mails. in a statement he wrote, roger looks forward to using his time in fro

that is podesta. he is just walking away. he is leaving us.he comes out, if we see him again, we'll take a comment. intel committee has switched their focus from the trump administration to the previous obama administration. what role, if any they played in trying to thwart an fbi investigation into hillary clinton. >>> we have more breaking news on the stock front. kb home releasing second-quarter earnings results following beat on earnings and revenue. home build are citing a 24% increase in revenue. 11% increase in deliveries for the beat. melissa: you are looking at a white house, where all republican senators, you will be in a second, there you go, they're talking to president trump about health care. we'll bring you details just as soon as we get any. david: this very disturbing story, the pentagon saying there is activity associated with chemical weapons in syria. white house is putting them on notice. former congressman pete hoekstra is with his take on that. >> goal at this point, not just to send assad a message. to send russia and i

emails leaked from podesta's hacked account caused major headaches for the clinton camp in the heat of the 2016 election. >>> minority leader nancy pelosi brushing off grumbling from within her own party declaring she has broad support among house democrats. some of those colleagues were meeting behind closed doors to discuss forcing her out. new york congresswoman kathleen rice, who went public calling for pelosi's ouster this week, hosted a dozen democrats to strategize. a defiant pelosi making it clear she's not going anywhere. >> i think i'm worth the trouble quite frankly. i like the fray -- i'm not disrespectful of members' views. i respect any views that members have. my decision on how long i stay is not up to them. >> congresswoman rice admitting to cnn part of the problem is no one has emerged as an alternative to pelosi. criticism of the democratic leader has mounted as democrats have lost special elections in the house. >>> facebook has been accused of dividing america. found mark zuckerberg says it will do the opposite. >> if you want to agree on things that the country is

wikileaks released thousands of podesta's private emails during the campaign. investigators say the emails that were released were meant to hurt clinton's campaign. after his meeting, podesta defended the way the obama white administartion dealt with the hacking. < john podesta / hillary clinton campaign chairman"the president and his entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of the fruits of russian cyberactivity and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people." >( darya ) next month, long-time trump associate roger stone will testify in front of members of congress. stone has come out defending the trump administration saying there was no collusion between the president and the russians. ( mark ) still ahead on the kron four morning news... wildfires continue to spread across california. the progress firefighters made overnight trying to contain these fires. and after the break... find out where the bay area ranks among the places with the worst drivers in the co

let's talk about john podesta. he did speak to cameras right after he finished his testimony on capitol hill. one of the things he did was make it clear that he was not blaming the obama administration for not handling the interference of russia properly. listen. >> i think the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incident of the weaponization of the fruits of russian cyber activity. and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. >> so there's going to be plenty for the house intelligence committee to talk to roger stone about when he gets there at the end of july. >> joe johns at the white house, thank you very much. >>> the united states has ships and aircraft in place if the syrian regime under assad decides to conduct another chemical attack. >> happening now, the ambassador to the united nations nikki haley is testifying on capitol hill. what will she say about the new u.s. pros tosture? >>> three chicago officers facin

podesta to come before the committee.kie spear, one of the members on this committee, democrats saying this is an effort to divert attention away from the central issues of the russia collusion issues, something republicans of course reject. right now, erin, these witnesses coming behind closed doors as this investigation takes shape. >> thank you. and of course behind closed doors could be crucial here in terms of what happened. good to have both of you with us. your next, john. roger stone, this is somebody they very much have wanted to talk to. it is a significant develop. they've got a date. >> america has got a date with roger stone, sadly behind closed doors. but roger stone is not a shy guy. he loves parading his opinions. he loves the attention of the press. but he is a person who has been of interest for a long time. he was at the center of so int int int intersecting relationships. >> wikileaks and all of these things. >> he's a proud dirty trickster in politics. >> april, it is significant that he's going to do

why isn't podesta being called to testify? this was not -- trump did not phish podesta's e-mails to say hey, you have to reset your password. >> john, thanks for your call. again, the overall investigations are into the iming pact of russia on the 2016 elections. the kmejs committee is investigating it. obviously, hearing with jeff sessions today. there's an investigation in the hoigs intelligence committee and the special counsel appointed by the department of justice. former fbi director robert mueller is leading that probe at the department of justice. jeff sessions the attorney general was asked about mueller and conversations in the last couple of days from some of trump's allies that had considered firing mueller. >> yesterday, yesterday, a friend of the president was reported to have suggested that president trump was considering removing mr. mueller in his investigation. do you have confidence in will mr. mueller? >> i don't know about these reports and i don't have the -- >> i'm asking you -- >> i have known mr. muell

, podesta's campaign e-mails were leaked by wikileaks and julian assange. i do have a back channel communication with assange because we have a good mutual friend. still, stone denied having any direct communications with assange and denied leaking podesta's e-mails. now intel officials want to know if roger stone had advanced warning of the e-mails leak and perhaps the russian hack during the 2016 campaign. the man whose motto is admit nothing, deny everything launched counterattack now back in the spotlight again. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> joining me now is senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. a fascinating piece for "the new yorker." jeff, roger stone is a fascinating character. as you were saying, you profiled him for the new yorker. he sort of thrives in a murkiness between fact and fiction. >> you know, that's exactly right, anderson. he is an unusual figure in that in my experience he embellishes the bad things he's done. tries to make himself look worse rather than better which is different from how most people i've interviewed over the years. >

more from washington now john podesta, one of the chief victims of russian hacking. pressed on why the obama white house did not do more to expose the kremlin before the election. >> i think they were, the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of, fruits of russian cyber activity, and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. >> podesta testified before the house intelligence committee yesterday, and joining me now is from washington, california congressman adam schiff. thank you for being with us. first of all he will's talk about john podesta's testimony. what have you learned so far? >> well i can't go into the particulars. i think it was valuable for him to come and testify before our committee. we're looking at a number of things obviously we're looking at the issue most people are focused on in terms of whether there was any coordination between the trump campaign and the russians, but we're also looking at issues about u.s. government resp

posted podesta's hacked e-mails but stone denies any collusion with russia. >> breaking overnight a police helicopter has fired grenades at venezuela's supreme court building. it's the latest development in thes ongoing political and economic crisis. many government opponents plame the supreme court for enabling the abuses of power by the president there but mature dura it didn't succeed. >>> tens of thousands computers were paralyzed and it originated in ukraine but hit hospitals and government offices and corporations here at home. abc's brian ross has the latest. >> reporter: the fast-moving cyberattack continues after freezing computers at hospitals in pennsylvania where surgerys had to be cancelled. >> he called me and said surgery was canceled because the computers were down. >> reporter: also down, computers at merck pharmaceutical in new jersey. even the company that makes oreo cookies may have been hit. >> you can't read any e-mails or files. basically your computer becomes a brick. >> reporter: it first surfaced in ukraine shutting down grocery store, airports and banks. a

and hacked podesta, they can put anything out there.o one has read all of podesta's emails, no one has read everything from the d.n.c. they can send whatever lies. if you're talking about did, was there cooperation with russians on that, there are some things where, you know, podesta's time in the barrel is very soon. charlie: roger stone said that. al: so that's kind of suspicious, don't you think? charlie: yes, i do. al: i mean -- charlie: she won minnesota. 46 1/2% to 45%. minnesota. your home state. al: that's right. there are a lot of people who voted for me in 2014, who voted for donald trump. charlie: why? because of all the things we've been saying. al: the things we're talking about. you know, our job is to send the message that we are looking out for them. i think that it helps when this president is doing things that he said he wasn't going to do, like cutting medicaid and then giving that as a big tax cut to everybody who makes over $250,000 a year. i mean, it's an -- the health care plan had an $880 billion cut in medicaid

first of all, they hacked into podesta's email because it is on the internet. the voting is not on the internet. voting in georgia is a closed system. there is no way they can hack into it. why we can't understand that. if somebody has a good computer science background, maybe they can call in and explain it, but the system here is you go into -- you can early vote, but it is all done on a machine that has nothing to do with the internet and i don't understand how the russians can hack into something that is not only internet. , the witnessesk before the senate intelligence , homelandyesterday security officials, fbi officials, they often said, i cannot tell you that in an open session. the senatehat intelligence committee chairman richard burr, listen to what he asked on why more details can't be made public. [video clip] >> through the long history that the department has in working with the private sector, state and local on security issues, we believe it is important to protect the confidentiality we have and the trust we have with that community, so that w

, leaked through wikileaks, writing to john podesta, she says let's put pressure on saudi arabia because they're supplying logistical and financial support to isis, the group we are in the middle east fighting against. saudi arabia supplying them. according to hillary clinton not indirectly but directly, who in their right mind would give money, arms, or share our technology with a country that has been supporting isis? who would do that? who would think that is a good idea? they will come here and say it is about iran as we have to combat iran, this will make the situation with iran worse. what you think iran thinks if saudi arabia gets weapons? they think to themselves if the saudis are getting more we need more. what do you think is real thinks you give the saudis get more we need more. never heard of an arms race? that is what this is. we are fueling an arms race in the middle east. every side wants more. we have to do this, we have to combat iran. how much the golf sheaf them, saudi arabia and all their allies bombing the hell out of yemen, do you know how their military spending co

to hacks in the first place by being down to john podesta of course every spawning to an e-mail from a hacking group requesting that he changes in mail passwords and him happily giving it away after an i.t. guy confirms that this team out was legitimity instead of a legitimate it was a typo that's the quote was our c.n.n. call the e-mail. as having helped the democratic party lose the two thousand and sixteen presidential race now also presented in this documentary is the so-called evidence presenting suggesting it was russia that was behind the hacks such as the hacks took place during moscow working hours the new hope people watching this will realize that moscow does share a time zone with many other countries. around yet also do hackers work nine to five . besides this let's take a look at this graph. but it's some of it surprisingly simple such as time stamps showing that the hackers were starting and finishing their work on moscow time for a good week for c.n.n. there was this. covert surveillance footage just a home of your own views on this where you think is a good or a bad

wikileaks released thousands of podesta's private emails during the campaign. investigators say the emails that were released were meant to hurt clinton's campaign. after his meeting, podesta defended the way the obama white administartion dealt with the russian hacking. < john podesta / hillary clinton campaign chairman"the president and his entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of the fruits of russian cyberactivity and i think they were trying to make judgments they could on behalf of the american people." >(mark) next month, long-time trump associate roger stone will testify in front of members of congress. stone has come out defending the trump administration saying there was no collusion between the president and the russians. (darya) a fight between several women breaks out inside a dollar tree store and it's all caught on camera. it happened in columbus georgia on tuesday. police say two groups of women got into an argument at another store. they then walked into the dollar tree and someone bumped into o

>> i think john podesta is right. were in an unprecedented and difficult situation, and they were trying to make the best decisions they could. but nonetheless, i think they should have come out earlier and attributed this conduct to russia while it was going on. in fact, senator feinstein and i, at the time this was happening, were urging them to do it, and when they were not willing, we did so ourselves, but that didn't have the same effect as an administration statement of attribution. when they finally did in october, it was only a written statement by two agencies and not the president himself, and there wasn't action to implement sanctions against russia in realtime, which i also think should have been the course. there is a lot of responsibility here to go around. the obama administration, i think, was doing this because they didn't want to be perceived as trying to influence the election. i think that was a legitimate motivation but didn't outweigh the public's need to know. but at the same time, donald trump

>> i don't have any questions for john podesta. this is, yet again, an effort by my republican colleagues to divert the investigation into areas that are not going to be necessarily helpful in determining whether or not the russians infiltrated into our election and whether or not trump campaign operatives were wittingly or unwittingly involved with russia in that infiltration. >> but you don't think it's important to find out exactly how the hack happened and to what extent the clinton campaign did or did not cooperate with efforts to try to -- that the fbi had to try to get in and help them out as dhs secretary, jay johnson said they had trouble doing? >> well, actually, jay johnson said that he was not privy early on to the hacking going on. it was much later in the process. i would say that that has some value, but it is not critical to the investigation, in my view. >> let's move to something else that is very critical on capitol hill and far beyond. the health care bill. republicans are trying to work through their version of

john podesta's testimony is not firm for next week but may be by the end of today. we'll update you as we learn more about that. russian backed hackers were behind the theft of the podesta e-mails and strategically leaked. the e-mails damaged candidate clinton. robert mueller was on capitol hill meeting with the house and senate intelligence committees and leaders of the senate judiciary committee to ensure that the overlapping investigations into russian interference do not conflict. the house intelligence committee has set a deadline today. they documented the private conversations with the president, shep. >> shepard: what are we learning about the closed-door testimony from the nation's intelligence chief? >> the director of national intelligence, dan coats, testified behind closed doors in front of the same committee. the senior republican on the committee along with the ranking democrat said there would be no selective leaks. within hours, there was an nbc report. >> i can't tell you who it is, but i can tell you this. you're going to have a chilling effect on

i do not know if the russians stick into john podesta e-mails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided. to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the beat n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an ethical government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. i'm tom hartman i'll give you what the mainstream media can't go big picture. and when you question more find what you're looking for. dog. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. on. all. twenty four and every. years the golden years and. this is anothe

unnamed members hack to the dnc in the personal gmail accounts of clinton's campaign chairman john podestahaving deduces might be the best way to hurt her in the campaign. the emails they exposed found a cozy relationship with the media on the democratic party. they showed that the democratic primary premise was rigged. they exposed wall street script transcript that clinton wanted to keep secret. in fact, hillary explains that the emails the russians hacked were boring, and contain nothing worth note. to increase the potency of this scheme, the trump campaign ordered russia to manufacture something called fake news out of the emails and distribute them for their network of bogus news outlets, which by the way, they have. you probably didn't know that. now, researcher the as stanford have discovered that the fake news that hillary discovered was seen by nobody, but according to hitler, it was enough in the end to bamboozle the sad and confused voters of pennsylvania and wisconsin into mistakenly boarding for donald trump. by the way, she feels sorry for them. according to hillary, the trum

we want the talk to you about what you heard from john podesta. him saying the last administration did the best they could with deciding what information to release about russia when they knew it. your reaction. >> that's one of the president's attorney first. here is what you've got. president obama knows all this purported activity is going on and does nothing about it. zero. he does nothing about it because he thinks hillary clinton will be the president of the united states. surprise, the president is now donald trump. so now we have a special counsel investigating the so-called russian probe and russian hijacking of the election. the russian hacking into the election when we know the administration previously had the information and did nothing about it. here is my question that i would ask john podesta and anybody else. why do we have a special counsel dealing with the russia hacking when they had that evidence and did nothing, why don't we have a special counsel reviewing why president obama did nothing after he assured the american people

john podesta testifies before the house intelligence committee about his e-mail hack about the man some alleged colluded with the hack. >> i'm very anxious to appear before the house intelligence committees. >>> plus under fire. critics slamming president trump for this moment with a female reporter which is now going viral. >> she has a nice smile on her face so i bet she treats you well. >> the legendary phil donahue is here to way in on all of it. >>> we'll begin this morning with resetting the repeal and the stunning decision by the senate republican leadership to postpone a vote on their highly controversial health care bill. there are a lot of questions this morning. so we are bringing in the best team of reporters and analysts in the business. here to explain where we go from here taking you to capitol hill where casey hunt is standing by. you spoke to senate majority leader mcconnell about this surprising announcement, surprising because he couldn't get the votes. let's listen. >> mr. leader, is your effort to repeal obamacare dead? >> no, no. we're continuing to talk about it.

i understand john podesta is going before the senate intel for a closed door meeting, not testimony. we have more information and it's all against the back drop of the stunning reporting we'll do later in the show about russia. what are you hearing from white house sources about the bigger question into their team and/or satellite associates as trump likes to call them and the broader investigation into russia? >> well, listen, this is an investigation that is a sprawling investigation. and i think we're starting to see and we will see in the next week with the sort of variety of people they're talking to both publicly and privately how deep it goes. the problem for the white house is that they really can't control any of this. and they don't actually have a great channel of communication to figure out where things are going. how to respond, to get in front of any of this. and so what you have instead is the president going out, he had this interview today which i assume was timed so that he could give an explanation for this whole tapes fiasco where he suggested there were tapes and

they were looking at john podesta's e-mails.n't saying america, stop what you ear doing. this is russia directed to create chaos here. don't pay attention to it. >> well, to be clear as it relates to the podesta e-mails in the first week in october, there was a statement that was worked on by the obama administration that was signed by all of the intelligence agencies of the u.s. government indicating that russia was involved in intervening and trying to meddle in our election process. so that was something that was widely known and actively discussed for a month before the election. so there's no mystery about what exactly was going on here, but as it relates to nick's point, look, nick, we did know that the russians were russians were scanning the websites and were trying to find vulnerabilitys in the election systems of local and state jurisdictions responsible for administering these elections. we absolutely did know that. what we chose to do is to work behind the scenes to make sure that russia did not succeed in interferin

podesta's testimony to lawmakers will be in a closed session. only various congressional committees, along with special counsel robert mueller are looking at the hacking of podesta's gmail account and it subsequent dumping of wikileaks in the coming weeks. >>> according to kuwait, which is acting as a mediator, the four gulf arab states, plus egypt, have sent qatar a list of 13 demands for ending the ongoing blockade in that country, including in that list reducing diplomatic ties with iran, closing the turkish military base, and shuttering state-funded broadcaster al jazeera. also included is a demand that qatar cut off relations with and stop financing terror, sectarian, and idealogical fp associations with hezbollah. there are allegations of terrorism funding, and that's given qatar ten days to dplie. nbc's lucy cav nay will have a lot more on that story. >>> also, new investigations by the ap and human rights watch. detail potential serious abuses at a secret prison network in yemen. the rorgtd reveals that hundreds of people are detained th

find testing interview with john podesta. i watched it this morning, wow.ut on the table. >> someone finally got it out there. maria: talking about trump and collusion. this should be a good weekend july 4th weekend. >> an important weekend, the box office down 7%, we see a lot of franchise fatigue between alien and pirates, another franchise the opening up will exceed expectations. despicable me, family-friendly movie, 85 to $100 million at the box office. my nephew is so excited about it, he is dressing up every day going to school. that is the audience. maria: i like the narrative of it. another comedy, the house, it stars will ferrell and amy faller as a couple who started an illegal casino out of their home. the second film they have done together. >> second phone, two very funny people, critics are not loving this movie. he has been at this sort of bashing the president like a lot of them do, that will heard the movie. bringing in 12 to $13 million, not a big number. maria: do they not realize it will hurt audience the way they talk about the presiden

our own maria bartiromo calling out john podesta today. they have russian ties also. so did you. you are not given 75,000 shares. i didn't have any stock in any russian company. go back and get your facts straight. we know that you will 75,000 shares. it's not russian company. it's backed by the kremlin. you are given 75,000 shares. that is not true. how may shares were you given. i do have any shares in any russian company. i was on the board of an american company that did business here here and only here that the russian company have a small investment in that company we can go round and round a tree. it's been widely reported it at that company has been backed by the kremlin. that you have to disclose. you can keep leveling of this charge it is not true. they do not give me anything. what a fight. maria was getting the double standard. let's go through the facts. >> he sat on the board of an american company. i got russian funding. it was taken by the kremlin. the kremlin didn't give them any thing. they got 75,000 shares. and it looks like he gave it to his daugh

>> i think it was valuable to bring john podesta in.e what the russians did and whether the russians had the help of any u.s. persons, but also what was the u.s. government response? how did they respond, how did the u.s. government, the fbi, the department of homeland security respond when we learned the russians were in our computers? how did they respond when john podesta learned that his emails had been hacked? this was obviously went to the core of our democratic process, and we need to learn because as james comey said, the russians will be back or more accurately in my view, the russians have never left. so i think his testimony was helpful, was important. we should not be afraid to find out the answers to any of these questions, and this is i think a core area of our interest. in terms of mr. stone, obviously there's been a lot said in the public sphere. i don't want to get into too much detail about it, but you know, he has said at various times that he was in contact with julian assange, that he had direct twitter communicatio