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Walk out the door of your job and keep the hall pass. what you said about fox is right. you walk out the door you dont get to keep your i.d. that lets you back in through security. it doesnt work like that in any employment ive ever been in including public employment. i walk out the door of state government, you think i carried passwords with me to the computer system? absolutely not. they were all changed. here is what i think you have to remember. john brennan didnt just say i disagree with p...

The question. >> you know what the russian capabilities are. you also know what our capabilities are. is that the president saying hes going to do enough in your mind or does he need to follow that up with the threat if this continues? >> at the first step. two leaders meeting, beginning a dialogue. i dont have my expectations for the president was correct with regard to their cybercapabilities, they are using their cybercapabilities whereas in the united states, we have some reservations about ...

Unprepared for this when he has pompeo, bolton and -- >> its not the media saying it. its the people inside the white house saying it. >> the only preparation has been john bolton going over last week and pursuing a policy thats completely the opposite of what john bolton has espoused his entire career. >> its one thing to do the spying and all the other things that russia has been dying. but again when its turning americans against americans an that was their point, to americans not to trust no...

Not 100 percent because you can never predict or give 100 percent guarantee that this can happen again? >> that is true.i do not think there is any computer system in the world that could be completely impregnable. elections are no different. we lacked the wherewithal to be close to perfect when it comes to cybersecurity. we are doing the best we can and the federal government has recognized this as a serious problem. it designated elections is critical infrastructure, congress recently approved...

Summit with vladimir putin on monday, or can he say, well, this gives me an opportunity to ask him about it? >> its going to have a direct and major impact on that meeting in helsinki. if you think about the primary responsibility of the president of the united states, defend the country, defend the country from foreign attack. this is an extraordinary grand jury indictment alleging a criminal conspiracy by the russian military to undermine our elections. theyre very specific, into the computer ...

I figure id just as soon be as smart as he is. >> for all you hear about friendly, they arent really, except for playing pac man. >> a small snag in computer marketing is called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and...

Said that. because they read lag as some sort of attempt on his part. so we had lag, and it happens. i dont know why it happens. last night i dont know why it took us a little longer through the computer system, computer systems do that. but we immediately, we didnt have the luxury of waiting, we turned to the help we used. >> meaning when you were taking his fingerprints, he was moving them around or what was the problem. >> i cant answer that. im not dissembling. i have no idea. >> was that 12...

But we had lag and it happens. i dont know why it happens. last night i dont know why it took us a little longer through the computer system. the computer systems do that. but we immediately -- we didnt have the luxury of waiting so we immediately turned to the help that we used. >> meaning that when you were taking his fingerprints he was moving them around? >> i cant answer that, maam. i really cant. im not dissembling. i have no idea. >> was the shotgun .12 gauge or 20 -- >> it was .12 gauge....

Database system. if you think about it, this is sort of how the national fingerprint system works. obviously, the government doesnt have a copy of everybodys fingerprints on mile. anybodys who had a background check, convicted of a crime, pictures taken, they will be in the base and they can figure who did a crime based on latent fingerprints found at the scene. similar, taking something physical in the world, like a print or a picture, and using dimensions to digitize that and put it in a compu...

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