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There are not auditable. all of those things are deep flaws and the russians in 2016 apparently have exploited many of those and apparently theyre continuing to go after them. another issue is, obviously, the allocation of funding to do it. money was raised by congress, none of this as far as i can tell has been spent. the republicans just shut down a second appropriation for election security. weve got to get everybody -- we dont actually have everybody from the same hymnal. what we had was a p...

Agency has in the past. facebook executives admit it is a fight without any end in sight." >> security is an arms race and its never done. weve made it harder for inauthentic actors to operate on facebook. yet, we face determined, well-funded adversaries who wont give up and who are constantly changing tactics. >> the news caused alarm on capitol hill with some democrats blaming the president from there you are not standing up to president putin and the republican party as a whole for not adequa...

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Identities for the russian-based internet research agency, and facebook executives admit it is a fight without any end insight. >> security is an arms race and it is never done. we made it harder for inauthentic actors to operate yet face determined, well-funded entities who are constantly changing tactics. >> on capitol hill, some democrats blaming the president for in their view not standing up to vladimir putin and the republican party as a whole for not adequately funding election security. ...

Meeting, its first meeting on election security chaired by donald trump. and the irony of this, lawrence, is that meeting took place two years to the day, precisely two years to the day that donald trump in july of 2016 called on russia to find hillary clintons so-called missing e-mails. and what we learned from the mueller indictment just a couple weeks ago to the day that russia actually started to try to hack into hillary clintons personal e-mail. so i think we have to marry those two facts t...

>> and ned, it certainly fits with what we know about donald trumps personality and character that he would want the continued help of anyone who wants to help with his election and with his campaigns and with republican campaigns, including the russians. >> well, thats exactly right. and i think when we look at the lack of action on the part of this administration there are only a few plausible explanations. and to my mind that is the most plausible. look, it was 18 months into this administrat...

It seems as though this is an all-out approach. >> the russians are at it again, and they are going back to the very same playbook. its the same dual-pronged approach, not only using these internet trolls on twitter and facebook, as weve seen, but also pursuing what they consider to be valuable intelligence targets. in this case, three campaigns, we learned from microsoft in aspen a few weeks ago. theres something particularly instructive about what weve learned from this facebook case, thats ho...

Actually started to try to hack into hillary clintons personal e-mail. so i think we have to marry those two facts to understand why we have a president who would not want to prioritize election security. because election security or lack thereof, the deficiencies of the system in 2016, worked to his tremendous advantage. and even beyond working to his advantage, he actually leveraged those insecurities, the deficiencies in our system, to help him, to your point. so of course he wouldnt want to ...

Theyre doing. >> while facebook didnt directly blame russia, some lawmakers are pointing the finger at moscow. the senate intelligences committee top democrat, mark warner from virginia, says its time for the trump administration to get serious. >> what is disturbing is that we still have a white house that refuses to acknowledge this problem. we had a closed testimony this morning the banking committee. some of the folks talking about the sanctions on russia. no one from the administration can ...

Summit yet. thats another reason the white house ended up pulling that invitation back because it wasnt likely to be accepted. i think putin feels, probably rightly so, theres not a whole lot of good that can come out of another summit, a washington meeting or even a moscow meeting when the political environment in washington is so toxic, and the white house is just trying to manage that. the president really wants to meet. he thinks summits are the way to go. putin doesnt. he understands theres...