It is 4 00 a. M. On thee coast and 10 00 a. M. In paris. In this final stretch, there is now news that the campaign one of the candidates running has been hacked. The files posted online. For the very latest on what this might mean for that election, cnn is live in the french capital. Good to have you with us. Yeah, george, good to be with you. The campaign had said report rey during the campaign that there were hackers and this morning quite a shock to wake up to the news so close to the election that the campaign hasnt been hacked. Heres what we know. The Campaign Says that thousands of its files were hacked and then posted online. This just before a media blackout on the election went into effect late friday. Midnight french time. According to the macron campaign, some of the files are authentic and others are totally fake. They say youre not going to find out anything that is damaging to them in this because theyve essentially done nothing wrong. Lets talk about this with christina
Land, who denied having any contacts with russians during the campaign about the campaign. This is what attorney general sessions said during his confirmation hearing back in january. If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump Campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do . Senator franken, im not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians. All right. So that was january, and when asked in a written question whether hed been in contact with anyone connected with any part of the russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day, sessions responded no. Now, heres what he said when he recused himself from the russian probe back in march. Let me be clear. I never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the Trump Campaign. And the idea that i was part of
3. 5 million american citizens are without power and struggling with Severe Damage and worries about what is going to happen tomorrow and into the next day. We have a live report with the secretary of state from puerto rico coming up in just a moment this hour. Thats a very serious situation. Before we get there though, this is one of those days when the power of american journalism deserves appreciation. Its one of those days when the power of american journalism is like a klieg light in a dark sky. Look at what we have just learned. If you were able to follow each of these paving stones as they were laid down one by one by Great American journalists and published by free American Press, if you were able to follow this one story all along from the beginning, today was a day when righteously, you should just take a second and look back at where that path has led us to today and behold what Good Journalism can do and how valuable it is to us as country. What we have learned tonight in r
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