hacking efforts? it s interesting. there was some of this reporting much closer to the 2016 election about some of these efforts to compromise election systems or really to you know, sort of voter files, things like that. this isn t terribly surprising. i think it s taken a while to get there, to get the notifications to states. but i m not sure that there s anything particularly suspicious about the timing other than it took a little while. kevin, i want to get to the personal element of the health care fight between president trump open john mccain. we just heard him talking about it before. is his tis dislike for trump stronger than his bond with lindsey graham here? this is fascinating because senator mccain of course has been best buds with lindsey graham for years. you can t get two more close political allies on capitol
on the evidence of these tapes, erin. and just to underscore a point you just made there, jeff, thatanswering the question that was asked. they missed the technical deadline and what they submitted was a copy of a tweet from yesterday. they waited to miss the deadline and put that out. they could have done it this morning and this didn t come from the white house counsel s office. was this building, was the administration taping in any way. this is a letter from the head of the legislative affairs office like literally it s a two paragraph letter i just read to you, erin. it is cutting and pasting the tweet the president sent far more than 24 hours ago. thank you very much. we re going to get response from congress in a couple of moments about that. also tonight an explosive report from the washington post detailing the hacking efforts by russia, the ones the president cavalierly referred to as a democratic hoax and that sean
processes. so it s the secretary of sate, the cia director and of course nikki haley to the un. these are current officials who work for donald trump. are they wrong? but we re presuming they have seen this evidence. you just heard rex tillerson has seen it, says there is no question. did he testify he s seen this evidence and did he tell us what it was? he testified he has seen the evidence and he said he had no question from it. i d like to add a follow up question on that. what was the evidence that you saw? was there a report from the intelligence community, or was it actual documents that showed the hacking efforts that allegedly came out of the russians. i m not denying that happened. i don t know why we found out about this leaks from the intelligence community. then we find out one of the head people is confessing he intentionally leaked information to his political advantage and to the disadvantage of the president. so we need more credibility than we ve been seein
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jackie: a lot of people are running on sunshine. rob: if we were running on sunshine, we have a problem because there s none out there. fox news alert. intelligence contractor under arrest accused of leaking a top secret report on russian hacking efforts. jackie: days before fbi director fired fbi direct or james comey to testify about investigation. live in washington, d.c. with the very latest. good morning, griff. first arrest we know that appears relate today russian meddling, 25-year-old contractor from augusta, georgia charged with removing and sharing classified materials with the media. the new leak a classified