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Font Size: Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson ripped Wednesday into Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters for claiming he was pushing Russian disinformation regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story. Johnson, Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, spoke during the Senate Hearing on Election Security & Administration. At one point, he began talking about Russian disinformation and said that “the people peddling it are not on” his “side of the aisle. Johnson brought up the Justic...

As the nation sees ongoing accusations and lawsuits about vote fraud in the General Election, St. Francois County Clerk Kevin Engler recently explained the processes his office goes through to ensure proper vote security. In Missouri, each county decides where the ballots are printed and what machinery and software to use. Engler admits that the voting system was more sophisticated than he thought when he took office. “The two machines that are most important are the Poll Pad, which we use...

Mahmood Yakubu’s duty is clearly cut out Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu was last week sworn in for a second term by President Muhammadu Buhari, following his clearance by the Senate. This is a remarkable feat. Yakubu is the first chairman to be returned to the post of the electoral umpire since inception. That he is distrusted by the leadership of both the ruling All Progressives Congress (who accuse him of orchestrating their loss...

Irresponsible presidents in american history. its -- its just out of the -- not even within the norm at all. theres questions whether its even legal. >> mary bruce asking the questions late today. lets get to mary in wilmington tonight. there was news today about michigan where the president lost by about 148,000 votes. weve learned the president has called republican officials in wayne county, home to detroit, we know sometime after that call they tried to rescind their vote to certify the resu...

Withheld, telling abc news it "lacked the necessary context and evidence for broader dissemination." the spokesperson also notes that dhs did share three other reports on election security with state and local law enforcement. all of this comes after the director of national intelligence informed congress over the weekend that they would no longer provide in-person briefings on election security. when they made that announcement, they said they would continue to provide written reports, but tom,...

Line. and lavrsergey lavrov met with president earlier this month and the kremlin said that it did not signal a thawing in relations. where do u.s./russia relations stand and do you think that they are improving generally? >> i dont. i mean, if you are the russians, you look at one decision maker in the united states, that is the commander in chief, you say i understand where the commander in chief sits. but for three years, hes been close to vladimir putin. that said, if you look at what has ha...

White house briefing comes out. >> and we heard jeremy diamond talking about the matters of mutual interests could be between the u.s. and russia. what would you consider potential matters of mutual interest that could have been discussed? >> boy, you got to find out a better analyst than i am. north korea could be one, iran could be one. obviously the strikes today against iranian organizations would be one. the. i suppose that the president could have raised election security. but remember, on...

Term and a month-long attack by iran. among the hacked victims members the trump campaign. >> if undetected they would have successfully infiltrated these e-mail accounts of these key individuals. and from there they could either extract information, just espionage, or they could use their control of those accounts to launch attacks on others. >> election security has been a political football ever since the 2016 race. when russia tried everything to influence the outcome. hacking campaign e-mai...

Danger. election security, were coming into the presidential election year and we fail to have a national strategy on how to protect our elector rate. you cant talk about risk without talking about natural disasters. the impact of the climate and these types of disasters. one thing that is important to talk about, martin, is that all of these things, the reason why theyre compounding is they failed to act over the last year. whether it is turmoil with dha -- dhs, or thousand accuracy some of the...

Term and a month-long attack by iran. among the hacked victims members the trump campaign. >> if undetected they would have successfully infiltrated these e-mail accounts of these key individuals. and from there they could either extract information, just espionage, or they could use their control of those accounts to launch attacks on others. >> election security has been a political football ever since the 2016 race. when russia tried everything to influence the outcome. hacking campaign e-mai...