jack kingston, thanks for joining us. thank you, wolf. jim sciutto, button this up for us because i ve gone through this report a couple times. you have as well. and there s a ton of information here including cutouts or third party individuals used by the russians to provide this information to wikileaks. two big headlines here. russia wanted to help trump win the election and weaken hillary clinton. two, they hacked both party, democrats and republicans. finally, they showed some of the goods to why they believe that including the middlemen russia used after stealing the toerl the get it in the public eye. it was also very interesting the fake news, the propaganda that they got out there very successf successfully. absolutely. they made it clear this is a comprehensive campaign, not just hack documents but in effect hack america news media to some degree, get out fake information as well. it would be on the internet getting a lot of exposure, all
is the united states already losing a cyber war with china and russia? american adversaries are stealing huge amounts of data from government and businesses and sifting through it to gain an advantage over the u.s. jim sciuto has been digging into this. it s alarming. i spoke to an official with deep knowledge to the extent of this. it s truly extensive and continuing, perhaps the most alarming thing, is that most government agencies do not have the ability to defend against these kinds of attacks. chinese and russian intelligence services are collecting information on a grand scale so they can target american workers. china has been particularly active the official says, part
the training of these rebels there s very little promise in his view is that they will be protected against assad. listen to this exchange. this is not a pleasant exchange i d like to have answers to questions. will we tell them that we will defend them against bashar assad s bombing? i think we have an obligation to help them will we tell them that? we have not told them that? we have not told them that. you re recruiting people and not telling them they re going too defend them because you haven t made a decision yet. you want to train them quickly and send them in. the u.s. the administration making the point there are no plans to send additional troops. maybe some acting as ground spotters for targeting in the future the administration making it clear, no change in strategy. jim? sobering assessment to say the least. coming up a civilian plane collides with the military fighter jet scattering fragments
and do trust her, at the same time we see in our recent poll nearly six in ten americans say they don t find her honest or trustworthy, that s significant. credibility so key to leadership while she s blaming republicans on this this is a recent development that we have seen with a couple controversies plaguing her, one being the e-mails which even democrats will say that s a self-inflicted wound that she was using her personal e-mail account only a personal server that she turned over e-mails she chose to but ultimately wiped her server and this issue of the clinton foundation having business. dealing with doe nation from countries that may have had business. and certainly will have had business before the u.s. in the future jim. brianna mentions those trust numbers, 57% in the cnn orc poll which is the worst figures for her any time since 2001 you see that reflected in other polls, in key swing states in pennsylvania ohio and florida. challenges on trust, and sarah mentioned a poll
hillary versus donald. she says she s disappointed in her old friend and former campaign contributor for his shocking remarks about mexicans. and tonight clinton is accusing the other gop candidates of not being all that different from trump on the crucial issue of immigration. plus midair collision. an air force fighter jet and small plane collide in mid flight reigning down debris over a large area how could this happen. and failure to train, the pentagon acknowledges a stunning lack of progress teaching syrian rebels to fights isis. critics say it is more proof that the president s isis strategy isn t working. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, wolf blitzer is off today, i m jim sciuto, and you re in the situation room.