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Sense? if they were trying to cover anything up, they might have instructed her not to talk about it. but shes saying they havent told her one way or the other. >> perhaps the single most important issue with bilateral relations with russia and the united states is their meddling in our election process, hacking into databases to interfere and influence that election thats profound. and her answer is what do you want me to say to them? i can give you a list of instruction it is she wants one. li...

There is a threat. there has to be a proportionate response. you want to block off religious refugees, christians, jews, muslims. they want to flee syria and iran to come here. that is bad policy. isis is happy about it. its propaganda for them. >> lisa: even the previous administration, officials admitted that one of the big problems with countries like syria is difficult when the country itself doesnt have the databases like we do in america. its difficult to check and be aware of the individu...

And any time money is spent to influence the election, the american people have the right to know where than money is coming from, and that its not coming from foreign sources. so we need to toughen up our rules to make sure that we can provide those assurances to the american public. >> i mean it sounds, commissioner, like youre saying it could be even worse than it looks, and that theres been attention about what russia and its hackers and affiliates may have done on the campaign side. but you...

Types of intrusions are concerned with law enforcement taking a look at their databases. its a problem. i dont know how we get past that. people are concerned about losing some of their intellectual property or having things leaked or maybe concerned about the language they use in their own private conversations, but its definitely something we need to look at and figure out a response to. >> fascinating insight especially considering the dnc ultimately went to crowd strike, a private cyber secu...

Should just get to work solving this. these election officials are desperate for someone to come in and provide the technology and expertise to help them. why are we deflects on collusion rather than talking about what were doing for these 50 states that are trying to run elections whose databases are vulnerable today. >> did the dnc reject help from the obama administration when that hacking happened? >> i wasnt there at the dnc, so i dont know. i think -- i think both sides could have done a b...

Have an effect on the results of an election, right? if a hacker screws up the voter file, voter registrations, that too could have an impact, particularly if it creates chaos on election day. we talked about that on last nights show. today "time" magazine moved the ball forward on that. theyre reporting that the hacking of state and local elections databases was, quote, more extensive than previously reported. they say there was, quote, at least one successful attempt to alter voter information...

Administration officials made the claim to me, yes, you can criticize for not acting publicly faster. they claimed the action they took based on the intelligence did slow the russians down and maybe there was a plan to infiltrate the elections data and trying to mess up on election day itself and that the response whether it was president obamas personal appeal putin at the g-20 or whether it was the sanctions or whether it was the in fact they got outed that did stop the program, do we know tha...

President trump once again criticizing his president with robert mueller calling his friendship with fired fbi director james comey bothersome, but president trump says he has no intention of firing mueller. were back with andre carson, member of the house intelligence committee. there is a report in time magazine that says thousands of voter records were stolen from state and local election databases last year. time says its unclear if russian hackers were responsible, but a lot of those stolen...

Federal authorities then told dallas that at least some of those 17 i. p.p. addresses thatd hit them were definitely from computers in russia. hacking doesnt have to mess with the actual tabulation of votes to impact an election, to have an effect on the results of an election, right? if a hacker screws up the voter file, voter registrations, that too could have an impact, particularly if it creates chaos on election day. we talked about that on last nights show. today "time" magazine moved the ...

To benefit the trump campaign. he unquestionably did that. that is the conclusion of the 17 u.s. government intelligence agencies. so there should be no debate about this, but there should be an investigation to determine what exactly russia did succeed in doing and make sure that when the 2018 elections roll around that they cant do it and we need to make sure that elections architecture, the people responsible for administering elections in localities across the country, they have bolstered th...