The Associated Press has called a key figure in the controversy, carter page. Page will join us shortly. First in the news breaking late today. The intercept is reporting that the Russian Military Intelligence Group executed a cyber attack on at least one u. S. Software supplier. The report indicates that russian hacking may have penetrated further into the u. S. Voting systems than was previously understood. In fact, just an hour after the story was posted authorities announced the arrest of the contractor who allegedly leaked that report, according to nbc news. Joining me is ken delaney, intelligence reporter with nbc news. Does this mean that the russians were trying to manipulate the voting itself, the counting of the vote . Theres no evidence of that. Intelligence sources say this document, while interesting, doesnt tell them a whole lot they didnt already know. It just adds further details that the russians were trying to hack into the Voter Registration system. So this document
And take a look at it. It says a real donald trump is bringing back plants and jobs to michigan. Justin, who is a congressman from michigan, is a big liability. And then scavino essentially calls out the trump train asking them to defeat him in a primary. Now donald trump is kind of talking broadly about perhaps taking on some of these Freedom Caucus members in primaries in the next two years, but never have they specifically called out a member of congress. One of the bigger critics of the Trump Administration seems to be the first person in their sights showing that this white house is prepared to take on people within their own party if they feel they need to. All right. Interesting strategy. Ryan nobles at the white house. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Lets talk more about all of this with cnn political commentator matt lewis. Also a senior columnist with the daily beast and lynn swede with the chicago suntimes. Were seeing a threat from the president in terms of saying hes u
Season. From the Justice Department to the white house. Ill speak with the times reporter who spoke the story of what trump told the russians. I want to begin our juchtd correspondent evan perez. You are reporting first here on cnn. What are you learning from your sources. Reporter erin, theyve begun researching impeachment proceedings. This is to prepare for what Officials Say is a distant and unlikely possibility. The president could have to fend off an attempt to remove him from office. Two people briefed on the discussions tell cnn the Research Efforts are informal and theyre being done out of an abundance of caution. They believe the president has the backing of allies in congress and that impeachment is not in the kashds according to the people weve talked to. Even dwems have tried to calm the wrim people talk this week out of kesh that its premature. Theyve begun collecting information on how such proceedings would work. A white house official we spoke to this evening afternoon
Russia. Thats taken off. Thats the quote. He added, im not under investigation. Thats also what he said to the russians. The white house did not dispute the account today, saying by grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into russias actions, james comey created necessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with russia. A very different reaction from democrats. A senator from pennsylvania tweeted, if there was any question as to why comey was really fired, donald trump just answered it. As i said, nixonian. Meanwhile, the Washington Post stated that the state of the investigation, quote, the Law Enforcement investigation into possible coordination between russia and the Trump Campaign has identified a Current White House officials a significant person of interest, showing tt the probe is reaching into the highest leveled of government now, according to people familiar with the matter. The senior white house adviser under scrutiny right now by investigators as some
I inadvertently skipped mr. Rooney for his own five minutes. So, mr. Rooney for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Director, i want to say that i have been up to the agency to review those documents that you had referred to before, and i look forward to talking about the information therein in our closed session. I also want to mention something that we had talked with admiral rogers and mr. Comey for in our last, or two open sessions ago, from the intelligence, house intelligence committee. Its one that sort of got a lot of hoopla on tv with regard to our side of the aisle here trying to make a diversionary tactic when we talk about the importance of what leaks do with our Intelligence Community, and i just want to ask you if you agree with admiral rogers that when highlevel Intelligence Community officials i think some news reports had almost 20 people leaking classified information to the press if you agree with admiral rogers that that kind of leaking with our ability to ha