based on new data, the nsa documents has russian military intelligence was behind in august 26 cyber attack auto voting software supplier and a follow-on hack days before the election. at a congressional hearing, a senior democrat said the nsa report shows russia wanted more than stolen emails. we have in the public domain verified information that the russians made an aggressive attempt to access not only a vendor of voter software but also a number of states. the aclu said sources like winner come forward to inform the public and officials seek information all the time with no consequences. bret: thank you. up next, two u.s. bases in qatar, how the president is weighing in, how his administration is handling the middle east diplomatic row over
over what they say is qatar s support of terrorist groups. the president tweeted: during my recent trip to the middle east i stated that there can no longer be funding of radical ideology. leaders pointed to qatar. look! so good to see the saudi arabia visit with the king and 50 countries already paying off. they said they would take a hard line on funding extremism, and all reference was pointing to qatar. perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism! traveling in new zealand, secretary of state offered a more neutral assessment, saying the u.s. is hopeful these countries can find a way to resolve their differences. as to the president s tweets: the president has his own unique way of communicating with the american people in the world. i don t intend to advise him on how we ought to communicate. qatar argues that these countries are trying to blunt its regional influence. we recognized cutter continues to make efforts to stop the financing of ter
else the president would write. speak to say. what s the difference? i think the white house aides are getting them tied up in knots over nothing. bret: but the white house puts out this call from the king of saudi arabia, where he says, the president says that he wants the gulf nations to all be together. well, he tweeted out about how the gulf nations pointed to qatar, and it seemed to be diametrically opposed to the message that this call tonight is interesting. speak at what doesn t help them for that reason. several, but among them is, that it does show disarray. you get the administration saying a, and he says b. in this case, i think it is very unwise. why should the president andd a major attempt to get qatar to shape up? they are doing this thing to boycott, cutting them off from
bret: conor powell, thanks. let s talk about the war against isis and other topics with south carolina senator lindsey graham, member of the senate armed forces, appropriations, budget committee. let me talk about this qatar diplomatic row with the other golf nations. president seem to indicate qatar is funding extremism. we have a u.s.-based. i am with tillerson on this. we need to get the parties together. qatar has helped hamas. they have funded the muslim brotherhood. they allegedly said something positive about iran and now they re claiming it was a russian hack into the qatari news agency. it s best if we can get qatar back in the fold and bring everybody back together. we have 10,000 troops there, and qatar has been helpful. they are getting better in terms
they have made progress. we recognize more work needs to be done. with the region and president posing qatar, its critics say qatar will have to alter its behavior. mohammed fahmy, former bureau chief in imprisoned in europe, is criticizing his former network. in a statement of fox news, he writes qatar remains under an unprecedented siege until it shuts down al jazeera. and since financing of terrorist in support of the iranian agend agenda. airbase in qatar and its role in mediating conflicts. bret: u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley opened the session of the u.n. human rights council today with a warning to the group.