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some breaking news here at home with the
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FBI just confirming to NBC News in a new
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statement that it is investigating
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claims by the Trump campaign that it was
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hacked by Iranians kend delanian is
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joining us now and Ken this is new
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information because up to this point it
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was not clear if or how the FBI was
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involved after the Trump came out uh
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campaign I should say came out over the
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weekend and said that it had been hacked
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walk us through what we know that is
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correct hiy and the FBI says they are
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conducting a criminal investigation
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that's a formal procedure uh under FBI
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policies and it gives them access to
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compel uh turning over certain documents
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for example but I'm told the Trump
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campaign and Microsoft which runs their
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systems are cooperating with this
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investigation and remember Donald Trump
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said in the truth social post that the
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campaign had been hacked by Iran
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directly now Microsoft said in a post on
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Friday that an Iranian leaked linked
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group had uh attempted to Target a
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senior campaign official without
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identifying the Trump campaign so there
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was a little bit of ambiguity about
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exactly what was going on here but
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remember that Politico and other news
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organizations said over the weekend that
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they had been approached by an anonymous
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person offering what looked like
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internal documents from the Trump
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campaign including a 271 page Dosa of
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opposition research on Vice Presidential
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nominee JD Vance that contained some
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unflattering characterizations and so um
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it's looking more and more like this may
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have been a state sponsored uh hack on
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the the Trump Campaign which would make
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it the second in American history after
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the Russian sponsored hack in 2016 of
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the Democrats and it's going to put news
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organizations in a real dilemma about if
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if if offer this material that's
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newsworthy what to do with it uh the
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Trump campaign is already saying you
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shouldn't use it you're playing into the
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hands of a foreign adversary but of
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course in 2016 Donald Trump welcomed
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with open armed the leaked material uh
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that was hacked by Russian intelligence
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and and leaked through Wikileaks
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embraced it used into this campaign and
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was roundly criticized in a bipartisan
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Senate intelligence committee report uh
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for what they described as a Counter
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Intelligence nightmare that was then
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this is now but it's something we we're
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going to be confronting probably in
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every election going forward hie thanks
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