Page 494 - Election Security News Today

Republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee, who is reportedly not sold at all on the idea of ratcliffe being dni. im told he privately expressed some misgivings to the president but that the president clearly moved ahead. >> lets go back to dan coats. ned, in coats resignation letter he listed his teams accomplishments. i want to detail what he highlighted. reauthorizing surveillance rules allowing the united states to collect the on line communications of foreigners outside the u....

Ground in which private insurers would be able to continue to have a role but the public option would be in play for people to choose from. >> thank you. as you well know election security has been top of mind recently. mitch mcconnell defending election security right now on the senate floor and digging in and defending his lack of movement. lets take a listen. >> this administration thanks in large part to dan coats whom i was very sorry to hear is stepping down has increased and improved our ...

The summer of 2014 that russia was going to increase efforts to attempt to meddle in democratic elections across the world. i would argue that the obama administration did not do nearly half of what it had to do. >> fair enough. >> ned, i want to jump in here and say ive asked you a question about the trump administration and whats going to be done going forward. >> 350 million, theyve gotten much more aggressive. i will say this. i actually agree, ive seen democratic senators tweeting with thin...

Next when it comes to the government and taking on election security? >> we saw a dramatic and very rare act of bipartisanship in the senate with the relesiase o that report, which is a substantial and serious document that i encourage people to sit down with and read. its not that long. its about 65 pages. its really harrowing in a lot of ways. it has both democrats and republicans on it. then within 24 hours of the release of that report, we had a total breakdown of that bipartisanship with re...

>> i think the challenge that i have now is i think for the first time in a long time, you know, being a life-long democratic voter, i am now starting to feel a lot of separation within the party within myself. this very same thing we used to say about republicans, you know, at some point your rhetoric has to match your policy. same thing. and i know that theres arguments to be made about well, even if we push certain policies they wouldnt be signed by the president. well, that hasnt been a conc...

I dont think a female is going to be a nominee of the democratic party, which is really surprising because we just had one. i hear it from african-americans, too. theres no way especially an african-american woman is going to be the nominee of the party again and thats so striking considering where we were eight years ago. >> and by the way, the national party in south africa with 10% of the population stayed in power from 1948 to 1990. you can have a minority rule. we have it now. >> we have to...

Who will say i dont think well elect a female president. i dont think a female is going to be a nominee of the democratic party, which is really surprising because we just had one. i hear it from african-americans, too. theres no way especially an african-american woman is going to be the nominee of the party again and thats so striking considering where we were eight years ago. >> and by the way, the national party in south africa with 10% of the population stayed in power from 1948 to 1990. yo...

Vile things about them, but cant figure out how to say anything negative about vladimir putin, his bestie who happens to be a dictator. i find is crazy insane and ironic that we have a president of the united states who refuses to stand up and be a leader against known tyrants who attack our very democracy. >> jo, could i -- >> hold on. lets take a look at whats transpired the past few days. i want to look at this in detail. the day after mueller testified, mitch mcconnell blocked two election s...

Katie, thank you so much. >> thanks. now to election security. why cant president trump and mitch mcconnell see the threat or do they even care? hmm. exactly. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh... whats up with your... partner?

But president trump chose to relegate the position of the director of national intelligence to really just something more internal within the intelligence community, to a large extent intelligence is only as useful as a president chooses to make it. thats why weve had myriad briefings on election security. weve heard about various threats impacting u.s. national security from the intelligence community and president trump chooses not to integrate that intelligence and, again, to rely on his gut ...