u.s. and qatar officials tell us that fbi sent a team of investigators to doha to investigate the alleged hacking incident reported in late may. intelligence gathered by u.s. security agencies indicate that russian hackers were behind the intrusion. it would add to concerns by u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies that russia continues to try to use some of the same

u.s. intelligence community law enforcement were monitoring russian officials who were having a conversationflynn. they weren't monitoring flynn. there is a difference. >> there is a major difference. there is nothing illegal with what the intelligence community did vis-a-vis michael flynn. this has been an issue that rand paul has had deep concern about for many years. his famous filibuster over this. this comes across as a red herring. there were reports that this tweet was conducted with communications department to release. this wasn't something done on a whim. again, if he was concerned about tapes he shot himself in the foot twice now because he didn't have to kick everyone else out of the room. he didn't have to kick senator sessions or his aides out of the room. they would have been able to back him up on his claims as opposed to now being his word versus former fbi director comey's word. >> the last hour also spoke to ranking democrat in the house intelligence committee. he said this about the president's statement today. listen to this. >> i'm glad the president has responded and t

u.s. intelligence agencies discovered that some trump campaign associates were in contact with russian officials, including fired national security adviser michael flynn. by the time comey met with the president in february in the oval office, comey says flynn was in legal jeopardy. >> there was an open f.b.i. criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian contacts, and the contacts themselves. >> reporter: comey told his

u.s. intelligence agencies publicly named and shamed russia. their statement read, "the u.s. confident that the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from u.s. persons and institutions." >> 17 distinct agencies together and say, yeah, we essentially all concur on this, that's a significant thing. >>> coming up, the releases of stolen e-mails accelerate. >> steady drip of stolen e-mail. >> e-mail. >> e-mails. >> e-mails. for 10 years, my tempur-pedic has adapted to my weight and shape, so i sleep deeply and wake up ready to perform. right now, save up to $500 on select tempur-pedic mattress sets at our july 4th event. find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com. looking for a hotel that fits... event. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over 200 sites to find you the hotel you want at the lowest price. grazie, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. i'm ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit cold turkey. i tried to quit with the patch; that didn't work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smo

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u.s. intelligence how the u.s. intelligence agency collects data from page uses can we glean she has more. the release today is not as else as latest in a series of leaks from wiki leaks they allege came from in ca known as four seven zero elser according to doctors or at least a little as the cia to track the geo location of the voice not by its g.p.s. foot instead by its proximity to wife i access points know this this argument today and you know where is the we could use of detail that is in the document it shows that there it's a device wearing a microsoft windows device even the device doesn't have even if it's not connected to the internet or time want to connect that want to his wife way enabled they can get along to choose the latitude and timestamp of where it is based on why for access points within its proximity and then using publicly accessible databases like google and microsoft can then stores information create time zone forward to what we can lease or describe as a target devices air pattern of life

u.s. intelligence agencies have sourcing inside the kremlin about his personal involvement in kremlin covert activities. that's a big freaking deal. i have no idea what that intelligence source is, but that is a big deal. and it is remarkable, honestly, that the "washington post" has been able to report that. the nature of the source of that intelligence, the danger the source of that intelligence must be in if that source is a human source. that's just palpable, right? how do you think putin reacted to reading this in the "washington post" today? the sensitivity of the united states having an intelligence source so close to putin, that is apparently what drove a lot of the extreme secrecy within the u.s. government about what the intelligence agencies knew concerning the russian attack. the post has some incredible details on that today, including shutting off all of the monitors that -- like the tv screens -- shutting off all the monitors in the situation room in the white house when senior officials were meeting to discuss these matters. they hadn't shut down all the monitors in the situa

u.s. intelligence community's case, pointing not only at russia meddling in the election but at vladimir putin himself, detailing that intelligence sources had captured putin's own instructions, directing the hacking and misleading the campaign, plus its goals to defeat and hurt hillary clinton in the election and help donald trump. but the post interviews with former obama officials reveals the pain now from some of them that more was not done to punish russia. quoting one, it's the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of choked. they say the administration was worried about appearing to try to influence the election themselves as well as provoking russia. one official explained, our primary interest in august, september and october was to prevent them from doing the max they could do. and after the election, some of the harsher options for punishing russia, like a massive cyber attack on them or sweeping sanctions, faced concerns and roadblocks from a number of corners. former deputy national adviser tony blinken today defended the obama administrat

u.s. intelligence has also picked up increase in communications, by the syrian military unit responsible for chemical weapons. pentagon officials cautioned the intelligence does not add up to a smoking gun. still, the white house rushed out a statement. warning that if the regime of ba sheer al assad conducts another chemical attack he and his military will pay a heavy price. ambassador haley expanded that to include syria's two main allies. >> the goal is at this point, not just to send assad a message, but to send russia and iran a message. >> about the same time haley was assad was given a tour of russian aircraft at their main base in syria. just offshore, four u.s. navy ships armed with cruise missiles were operating in the eastern mediterranean. twice as many as carried out the strike on sherrat airfield in april. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> holly williams has been given a rare look inside syria where fighters backed by the u.s. have surrounded raqqa which isis considers its capital. today, holly met with u.s. forces, just outside of the city. >> 12 miles north of the fro

u.s. national intelligence james clapper. proves moscow is still making attempts to influence american politics he was appearing in a new documentary heard by the c.n.n. news channel during prime time in america is there any reason to believe that russia is not right now today continuing to attempt to or to infiltrate u.s. political organizations individuals on board through or. think it's in their d.n.a. . or during the soviet era or know. well arty's nicky are enjoying kevin owen in the studio earlier to examine whether there was actual smoking gun this time round. there's so much anticipation over this latest special report from c.n.n. it was billed as the first comprehensive telling of on television of russia's attack on the two thousand and sixteen presidential race and also with jarring lessons for the american leaders and the public about more attacks still to come now who wouldn't want to watch this it seems like it was going to lift the lid on all of these unverified source is and then substantiated claims it's used

u.s. intelligence. the suit named numerous other defendants, including n.s.a. director mike rogers, former c.i.a. director john brennan, even former president barack obama. quote, records indicate the suit was assigned in washington to u.s. district judge richard leon, who in 2015 issued a historic ruling that the n.s.a.'s past bulk collection of americans' phone records most likely violated the constitution. thank god. he ruled as he did. the agency has since ended the practice but the pending case which is winding its way through appeals an motions, is likely to shine a lighten whether american civil liberties were violated during more than a decade of the war on terror. this is incredible. and then when we hope the courts another r help, we see answer that is incredibly discouraging. federal courts stepping in where they have no authority. federal court, district court, court of appeals, they got no authority to grant standing to people that are not in the united states, standing and rights to people that are not american citizens. not on american soil. but t

u.s. intelligence chief say meddling is in russia's d.n.a. proof enough that the moscow continues to. politics the comment came in a c.n.n. documentary. britain's prince william former prime minister david cameron are embroiled in a corruption scandal over england's failed bid for the twenty eighteen world cup according to a long awaited report. criticism is leveled that the u.s. administration for failing to give solid proof to back its claims of the syrian government is preparing a chemical weapons attack. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know me welcome to the program meddling is in russia's d.n.a. according to the former director of u.s. national intelligence james clapper not prove a small school is still making attempts to influence american politics he was appearing in a new documentary heard by the c.n.n. news channel during prime time in america is there any reason to believe that russia is not right now today continuing to attempt to infiltrate u.s. political organizations or individuals or are true or. do we think it'

u.s. perspective, that might make sense. an american intelligenceoperation isn't necessarily set up to use private sector hackers, but putin is exploiting that gray zone and that disconnect. so it's not surprising that he'd say something like, that but it no doubt comes with a wink-wink. >> yang: karen, what do you think of it? you've been watching the russians for a long time. what do you make of that? >> well, i think that the allegation has always been that the russians work through individuals, non-governmental individuals, in order to do this hacking and that they were guided by internal information over to russian intelligence. so i think what putin is doing is basically acknowledgeing that they did it in an indirect way, and he's kind of thumbing his nose at the americans and saying, you know, you can't pin this on us, even though i think that he's not really fooling anybody. >> yang: very good. karen deyoung, ali watkins, thanks for being with us. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: we turn our focus to politics now: from tensions inside the whi

u.s. intelligence and u.s. military. let's put up a map for a minute. raqqah. this city, isis self declared capital, has been undergoing assault from the air and by fighters on the ground for several weeks. it is isolated. they have isolated some isis fighters in the city. we know over the last couple of weeks many isis leaders have fled south to a town called al mayadin. it is in that region that u.s. intelligence is looking carefully to see if they can find evidence of isis leaders on the ground. chris. >> barbara, thank you for the reporting from the pentagon. let's bring in analyst lieutenant general mark hertling and arwa damon in irbil, iraq. general, what is your take on the reports? >> alisyn, this is very high skepticism. this is without the russians giving us where the information they are getting. this has been reported over of the past couple of years. one report that he was killed in iraq and before that, another report. there have been multiple killings of mr. al bagdadi. they all have been false. there is a reason he is called ghost. there is too

u.s. intelligence maintains the attacks did not affect the collection but the cyber attack described by the national security agency seems to go further than a previous assessment of russian hacking efforts. jeff pegues has the details. >> reporter: according to the nsa report the intercept hackers from russian military intelligence were trying to access voter registration information days before the election. the hackers stole user credentials from u.s. election software company in florida. they then used those credentials to send fake emails to 122 local government officials, probably involved in the management of voter registration systems. those emails were sent just over a week before the november 8th election and were laced with malware. the report says the viruses tried to access election related hardware and software applications. access to voter registration records could have allowed the hackers to delete or change voter information. >> what was your initial reaction? >> shock and dismay. >> reporter: the description is similar to what we heard last year from secretary of state mi

u.s. intelligence and u.s. government you know anonymous sources that c.n.n. is kind of taken the mantle of over the last few months or years maybe. does that affect credibility then when this things like this happen that you know a lot about as we keep pushing this narrative every time that you should never question the official story that why would you question the official story and one of them is that they have reported that the f.b.i. quote the f.b.i. recently sent a team of investigators to doha to help the qatari government investigate the alleged hacking incident intelligence gathered by u.s. security agents indicates that russian hackers were behind the intrusion first report about the government now as you said there is a completely different story now telling telling you know the media the attorney general saying we have evidence to show that i phones originating from the country is laying siege to us have been used in this hacking so here's the problem you jumped up and took a source that you have no. acting for that information and now it's shown

u.s. intelligence agencies disagree. they have concluded putin's government is behind the election hacking and disinformation campaign. >> he's trying to sort of create some plausible deniability. >> reporter: brett padres is a cybersecurity expert who has consulted for the cia. was there anything that he said that really surprised you? >> i think he might be concerned about some evidence that will be disclosed and he sort of wants to distance himself from those that might have been involved. >> reporter the obama administration was convinced of russian interference soon after the election and retaliated. it expelled 35 russian diplomats and seized russian compounds in new york and maryland. at the time director of national intelligence james clapper was surprised the russians didn't respond. no sort of reaction from them? >> it was very curious. >> reporter: the fbi's counterintelligence investigation is trying to determine whether the russians were given assurances by people associated with president trump. >> well, th

u.s. intelligence committee and would have said the thing is rigged. another attempt by democrats working with discredited intelligence community we have to try and switch the election in her favor. so i understood why the president was reluctant to do that and has proved -- >> in early october finally issued a joint statement, jeh johnson then secretary of homeland security and william, james clapper, head, director of national intelligence. issued a statement saying the russians did it at the highest levels and didn't name putin personally. was that a mistake? >> i don't think so. i think they withheld it, because, again, you need to protect that sort and method of, how did you get the information? do we want to continue to get this kind of information? if you compromise that, you've locked the door. secondly, i want to praise the intelligence committees, because they didn't leak this information. this information was given to the intelligence community and shows that -- >> given to the so-called gang of eight. the top two -- democrat and republican i

u.s. intelligence agency collects data from p.c. users with more not called mcglinchey their release today is known as el says latest in a series of leaks from wiki leaks they allege came from in cia known as false seven no else according to doctors at least they say to track the geo location of the voice not by its g.p.s. foot instead by its proximity to wife i access points now this argument today and you know as do we could be some detail of this in the document it shows that it's a device wearing a microsoft windows device even the device doesn't have even if it's not connected to the time once it's connected want to his wife i enabled they can get along the tube latitude and timestamp of where it is based on why for access points within its proximity and then using public the accessible databases like google and microsoft can then stores information create time zone forward to what we can lease or describe as a target device as a pattern of life time to talk football because attention turns to the knockout stages of the free fo

u.s. intelligence agencies can offer. we also can tell that you in london tonight, there is a vigil planned for about 6:00 p.m. london time near the london bridge. live at the british embassy, i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. >> thanks mel. >>> time now 4:32. breaking overnight from the middle east this morning, five countries have cut ties with the nation of qatar. bahrain egypt saudia arabia yemen and the united arab emirates announce they're withdrawing their diplomatic staff from qatar. the action is being taken because of qatar's support for islamist groups and its relationship with iran. the emirates airline says it will suspend flights to qatar beginning tomorrow. >> ♪ >> russian president vladimir putin is angrily denying any russian hacking of the u.s. presidential election. he is also spenting u.s. spice could havfa in a new interview putin claims it was "convenient for u.s. intelligence agencies to accuse russia but suggested private hackers may have also interfered." >> i have not seen any once any direct

u.s. intelligence has also picked up an increase in communications by the syrian military unit responsible for chemical weapons. pentagon officials cautioned the intelligence does not add up to a smoking gun. still, the white house rushed out a statement warning that if the regime of bashar al-assad conducts another chemical attack, he and his military will pay a heavy price. ambassador haley expanded that to include syria's two main allies. >> the goal is at this point not just to send assad a message but to send russia and iran a message. >> reporter: about the same time haley was making that statement, syria's assad was being given a tour of russian aircraft at their main base in syria. just offshore, four u.s. navy ships armed with cruise missiles mediterranean. twice as many as carried out the strike on shayrat airfield in april. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> mason: our holly williams has been given a rais rare look inside syria, where fighters backed by the u.s. have surrounded raqqa, which isis considers its capital. today, holly met with u.s. forces just outside the city

the sensitivity of the united states having an intelligence source so close to putin, that is apparently what drove a lot of the extreme secrecy within the u.s. government about what the intelligence agencies knew concerning the russian attack. "the post" has some incredible details on that today, including them shutting off all of the monitors, like the tv screens -- shutting off all of the monitors around the situation room in the white house when senior officials were meeting to discuss these matters. >> it's some of what our agencies know. sort of gets this early why it's so important that that kind of information shouldn't ever fall into the hands of anyone who, say, is beholden to russia for some reason. that is one of the things the washington post unveiled today. such a sensitive thing. it's almost impossible to believe that we get to read about it in the paper. i should tell you, though, there are sources for this report. according to them they're "more than three dozen current and former u.s. officials in senior positions in government." presumably they've got this nailed down, right? three -- more than three dozen sources. it's a

u.s. intelligence says the russian military action used online personas and d.c. m to released hack materials to influence the american election. u.s. officials say putin's fingerprints may not be on the computer keys but the operation had to have been approved by the top levels of the russian government. today putin said russia could have been framed. >> translator: i can imagine that someone is doing this purposely, building the chain of attack so the territory of the russian federation appears to be the source of that attack. modern technologies allow that kind of thing. >> reporter: perhaps he sees the trail of evidence getting closer to the kremlin. they're the work of hacking teams known as cozy bear and fancy bear tied to russian government and innocence agencies. >> are these deshelved hackers wearing military uniforms. >> they're more business focused and there's going to be a technical that may be a little informal and casual. >> reporter: experts say putin has plausible denightability that russian hackers outside the government could be targeting the wes

u.s. intelligence official says he had not seen the u.s. intelligence analysis of the incident at the time he spoke. police now say no one was shot and robbery may have been the real motive. the suspect remains on the loose. >>> ahead of tonight's tip off in game one of the nbc finals, super star lebron james is speaking out about a disturbing off the court incident. he delivered a powerful message after his home was vandalized with a racial slur. part of a wave of racist acts across the country and we get the latest from nbc's joe fryer. >> reporter: as lebron james gets ready to leave the cavs into game one of the finals he's pausing to deliver a message beyond basketball. >> racism will always be a part of the world. it's alive every single day. >> reporter: the comments come after his los angeles home was vandalized with a racial slur. a police source says the "n" word was spray painted on a gate. no one was home at the time and so far no one has been arrested. >> no matter how much money you have, now matter how famous you are, now matt

u.s. intelligence chief says meddling is in the russia's d.n.a. therefore it's proof enough that moscow continues to infiltrate american politics the comment came in a new c.n.n. documentary just there we'll tell you all about it. coming up two criticisms leveled at the u.s. administration for failing to give solid proof to back its claim that the syrian government is preparing a chemical weapons attack. a prime minister david cameron and prince william implicated in a corruption scandal over england's failed bid for the twenty eighteen world cup according to a long awaited faithful report out. i really want to run the world very good morning for me kevin owen it's just turned eleven in the morning here in moscow this wednesday the twenty eighth of june you're watching the international first meddling is in russia's d.n.a. says the former director of u.s. intelligence james clapper that proves he goes on to say that moscow is still making attempts to influence american politics he was appearing in a new documentary aired by america's c.n.n. news c

u.s. intelligence chiefs say he's meddling is in russia's d.n.a. amounts proof enough but also go to news to infiltrate american politics the comment came in a new c.n.n. documentary. the u.k.'s prince william and former prime minister david cameron find themselves embroiled in a scandal over england's failed bid for the twenty eighteen world cup finals after the release of a long awaited report. just after four pm here in moscow this wednesday but twenty eighth of june hello and welcome to r.t. international i mean an o'neil russia sees washington's claims that the syrian government could be preparing a chemical attack is an invitation for terror groups to carry out provocations. and joins me live with the details nicky. hi you know while the fonts that the u.s. not only appears to have preempted a chemical attack in syria but also appears to have planned how it's going to respond to an event take place this is a very worrying development to the russian side and a lot of this has to do with concern over the u.s. being perfectible to repeating past

u.s. intelligence community did conclude with a very high degree of confidence that it was russia. they also concluded nit was putn personally who authorized it, though they said only russia's seniormost officials could have authorized these communities, subsequently said it was putin. that's why i'm saying should the president raise this with putin and a severe warning with him, stop it, don't do it again. by the way, we showed some live pictures of the president in new jersey. the president arrived from new jersey and will be spending the weekend in his country club up there as well. you see the president and the first lady arriving in new jersey for the weekend. congressman, there is a lot more we need to discuss. i want to take a quick break. we'll resume our conversation right after this. >> thank you, wolf. i'd like to come back to that, too. i just saved a bunch of money on my car insurhuh. with geico. i should take a closer look at geico... geico can help with way more than car insurance. boats, homes, motorcycles... even umbrella coverage. this guy's gonna wish he brought

u.s. intelligence reports that have been made public mentioned the g.r.u. but this one is more definitive. that would be based not only on computer forensics, that's based on snalds intelligence and human intelligence suspended it tracking this thing back to particular ruckus officials. >> let's talk about this arrest. do you have reporting on how they were able to zero in on the person who was arrested, ms. winter? >> this is a really remarkable part of the story. they did it through basic forensics. she appeared to be rather careless. she e-mailed with the news site and then she printed out this document according to the affidavit, though she did not have a need to see it. we're talking about a 25 year old contractor here. the reason she was of interest to the nsa was she was a former air forceling quist. it's automated example how the nsa has a problem with leakers. you never used to see this thing happen at the nsa. once you got clearance it was a club, a trusted circle. >> one things of contractor edward snowden. nbc's ken delaney. we're all awaiting te

u.s. intelligence agencies agreed russia meddled in the 2016 u.s.er to get president trump elected. it wasn't true. "the new york times," one of the first to report that all 17 agencies agreed, they issued a major correction on that story saying, quote: the assessment was made by, actually, four intelligence agencies; the office of the dni, the cia, fbi and the nsa. the assessment was not approved by all 17 in the american intelligence community. we like to do this sometimes just for kicks, how "the new york times" finished today. let's see what it did in the markets. oh, it's to the downside fractionally, down ten cents. let's bring in geraldo -- >> how are my stocks doing? [laughter] elizabeth: wait a minute. >> you know, first of all, i didn't know we had 17 defense agencies -- elizabeth: until -- >> i've been around a long time. to me, the significance of this is not that there is serious doubt that russia hacked our election. i don't think that that is in doubt. where the doubt comes is this whole number of 17. how is it "the new york times" go

u.s. intelligence community that russia massively intervened in our elections.he threat we face is real and it's not limited to us. the recent events in france give a stark reminder that all western democracies must take steps to protect themselves. i believe the united states can and must be a leader in this effort but all require our administration to get serious about this. finally in the past several weeks, we've seen a concerning pattern of administration officials refusing to answer public unclassified questions about allegations about the president in this investigation. we had a hearing with this subject last week, i want to commend the chairman who at the end of that hearing made very clear that our witnesses -- it was not acceptable for our witnesses to come before congress without answers. the american people deserve to know what's going on here. thank you, i look forward to the witness's testimony. >> thank you. attorney general sessions, if you would stand, i will administer the oath to you. raise your right hand if you would please. do you solemnly

u.s. intelligence community is actually spying on the president and spying on him as well. ur reaction. >> i don't find that very believable. i am on the senate intelligence committee as you pointed out, and we work very closely with the entire intelligence community. there certainly are important questions, particularly in light of the unmasking of u.s. persons names during the course of the obama administration by susan rice and others that we need to look into as part of the russia investigation. we need to reassure the american people that american citizens are not being spied upon by their government, but, i'm not aware of any reason why the president should not have confidence in the intelligence community. i think they're doing an outstanding job. >> and you're on the intelligence committee as we note. the president, as you know, he was the original -- he made the original issue of tapes on may 12th when he tweeted this, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. that was witness intimidation? was that a thre

u.s. intelligence detected activity around shayrat airfield. from which that deadly april chemical weapons attack was launched. according to what a u.s. official tells our own cbs news' david martin there is activity around that same chemical weapons bunker that was not destroyed due to fear it would spread the toxic material. the u.s. has also picked up increased communications by the syrian unit responsible for chemical weapons. however, it is not clear whether that is preparation for an attack or simply movement for another reason such as an inspection. u.s. dip the mas tell me that they were caught off guard by the strong language that was used in this white house statement. however, this did come just hours after a tense phone call between russia's top diplomat and secretary of state rex tillerson. that extraordinary warning came following the call during which russia did confirm that preventing future chemical weapons attacks was a conversation point. lavrov also said he was very frustrated at three recent u.s. military strikes against mil

u.s. intelligence has known and trusted for years. a man who has a great reputation and what u.s. e does is sit down with him and say what can you tell us about your ces? what are you willing to explore here so we can verify it? i'm told most of it has been verified by u.s. intelligence. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. appreciate it. tonight's "last word" is next. ) listen up, heart disease. you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable. we're talking to you, cost inefficiencies and data without insights. and fragmented care- stop getting in the way of patient recovery and pay attention. every single one of you is on our list. for those who won't rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. optum. how well gets done. there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. they offer free cancellation if my plans change. visit booking.com. booking.yeah. sit can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. luckily there's powerful

u.s. intelligence community's case for russia's meddling in the 2016 election. and revealing it was directly ordered by vladimir putin. "the washington post" detailing that intelligence sources had captured putin's own instructions to disrupt and discredit the presidential race, with the goal of defeating or hurting hillary clinton and helping donald trump. the cia delivered the intelligence by courier to obama in august. the post reviewed by senior obama officials revealed the frustrations now among some of them that more was not done to punish russia, quoting one, it's the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of choked. they say the administration was worried about appearing to try to influence the election themselves as well as provoking russia. one official explained our primary interest in september, october was to prevent them from doing what they could do. and like a massive cyber attack on them sweeping sanctions, faced concerns and road blocks from a number of corners, former national security adviser tony blan

u.s. intelligence is still gathering new evidence of russian cyberattacks before election day. e leaked top secret nsa report was only recently completed and details how a week before november 8th, hackers connected to russian military intelligence sent e-mails laced with malware to 122 local officials controlling voting registration systems, the brazen scheme told russian president vladimir putin to stop the attacks. >> i felt the most effective way to make sure that did not happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out. >> law enforcement says that databases were hacked over a six-month period before the election. so you think the worse case scenario was they were actually trying to affect the vote total? >> i think that was their hope. >> jim louis advises the government on security. >> i think they hoped to manipulate the votes and discredit the electoral system which they came closer to doing. >> u.s. officials still believe the vote total was not affected. >> there is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than voting. >> today, homeland security secreta

u.s. intelligence is still gathering new evidence of russian cyber attacks before the election. e cyber attack report was only recently completed, detailing how hackers connected to military intelligence sent e-mails laced with mallware to 122 officials controlling voter registration systems. the brazen scheme came just weeks after then-president obama personally told president vladimir putin to stop the attacks. >> i felt that the most effective way to ensure that did not happen was to talk to him directly. and tell him to cut it out. >> reporter: law enforcement sources say voter databases nationwide were targeted by russian hackers over a six-month period ahead of the election. so you think the worse-case scenario was they were actually trying to affect the vote total. >> i think that was their hope. >> reporter: jim louis advises the u.s. got on cyber security. >> i think they hoped to influence the votes, maybe discredit the electoral system which they came closer to doing. >> reporter: u.s. officials still believe the vote total was not affected. >> there is nothing more fu