August 18th 2016 News Today

hey everybody, good afternoon. im yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, hes gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substanc...

If his loyalties change. maybe even sees that, my chance at a pardon is going away. if donald trump is going down in the polls. maybe now is the time for me to talk to doj. >> its likely they didnt even know the type of evidence that the department justice has before this indictment was unsealed. >> correct. doj, even before they knew what they knew personally, doj is not going to keep them in the loop as theyre conducting their investigation. thats not something doj just. thats one of the reaso...

August, august 15th, we now know the fbi was investigating not only what russia was trying to do to intrude in our election, but also whether the russians might have any american confederates who were trying to help them. by august 15th, the homeland security secretary jeh johnson convened a conference call with all the top elections officials all over the country to give them all an in-person warning from the secretary of homeland security about security risks to state election systems. he got ...

Alert from its cyberdivision, again, warning state election officials, warning secretaries of state that they needed to take steps now to beef up their firewalls, beef up their other security measures because it wasnt some vague sense of russian hostile intentions toward our elections. no, by that point the fbi cyberdivision had observed russian state hackers specifically targeting multiple u.s. states and succeeding in breaching security and getting into election systems so conceivably they cou...

Because of the dnc getting hacked. they now think our whole system is on the verge of disaster because some russian is going to tap into the voting system. and that is just not -- i mean anything is possible, but it is not probable at all. politico published that on the morning of august 28th, 2016. by lunchtime on august 18th, 2016, literally that same day, within hours of that politico piece being published, a researcher at an american computer security firm called up the election officials in...

Appeared to be their designs specifically on our election infrastructure in the states. now that call, jeh johnson will later explain, didnt go all that well, but then three days later, august 18th, 2016, the fbi sent out a secret flash alert from its cyberdivision, again, warning state election officials, warning secretaries of state that they needed to take steps now to beef up their firewalls, beef up their other security measures because it wasnt some vague sense of hostile intentions toward...

I also refuse to accept these warnings, he said. basically said this is all a liberal plot. this one republican secretary of state told the publication next gov at the time, quote, the question remains whether the federal government will subvert the constitution to achieve the goal of federalizing elections under this guys of security. he then told politico.com, quote, it seems like it is just the d.c. media and the democrats because of the dnc getting hacked. they now think our whole system is ...

Gov at the time, quote, the question remains whether the federal government will subvert the constitution to achieve the goal of federalizing elections under this guys of security. he then told politico.com, quote, it seems like it is just the d.c. media and the democrats because of the dnc getting hacked. they now think our whole system is on the verge of disaster because some russian is going to tap into the voting system. and that is just not -- i mean anything is possible, but it is not prob...

Specifically on our election infrastructure in the states. now that call, jeh johnson will later explain, didnt go all that well, but then three days later, august 18th, 2016, the fbi sent out a secret flash alert from its cyberdivision, again, warning state election officials, warning secretaries of state that they needed to take steps now to beef up their firewalls, beef up their other security measures because it wasnt some vague sense of hostile intentions towards our elections. no, by that ...

Registrations in at least two states. so the fbi sent out that flash alert august 18th, 2016, sent it from the fbi cyberdivision that was supposed to be a secret alert to all the states. of course, it immediately leaked to the press. but at least at this point, you know, the call from the homeland security secretary, with the public reporting that it was russian state actors who hacked the democratic party with this flash secret alert from fbi cyber, hey, this is happening, theyre really doing i...