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Strategy to protect future elections from getting hacked, as the president holds his very first meeting today with the national security council. are they doing enough? thats the key question. on the topic of election security, senator claire mccaskill says russian hackers were unsuccessful in their attempt to hack computers in their office. the man who helped solve the dnc hack will join me straight ahead to give us insight. stay with us. (vo) what if this didnt have to happen? i didnt see it...

If he violated u.s. law that deals with tampering with a witness, victim or an informant. all this as trump still struggling to clean up missteps in helsinki. >> dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think its russia. i have president putin. he just said its not russia. i will say this. i dont see any reason why it would be. >> sentence should have been i dont see any reason why it wouldnt be russia. sort of a double negative. >> reporter: a white house official telling cnn the pr...

Comfort to know theyre there working on this. >> yes, the administration has to have a coordinated voice and what theyre doing to protect the elections. the white house knows whats going to happen. russia, russia, russia questions. theyre not the only threat. often in washington, we forget about the cyber threats coming out of china and north korea. >> dana: and iran. >> and iran. its not just russia. the administration needs one solid voice on this. kirstjen nielsen did a fantastic job. the adm...

Talk. the more immediate victory may belong to the presidents fellow republicans especially those in the midwest who are worried about the impact of his policy but they dont want to risk alienating his base. then the issue of election security. the president took a ton of criticism again from republicans and democrats for insisting that russia wasnt targeting the u.s. that triggered a week long series of walk backs and clarifications culminating in this. president trump chairing a full meeting o...

Week, the house republicans rejected it. my hope is donald trump can now push for funding for election security. thats what we need going into november. >> is that tweet, the tweet today saying the russians want to help the democrats in the midterm elections, is it laying ground work, congressman, to blame russia if the republicans lose the majority in the house in november? >> its possible. its also not true. what we know from 2016 is that russians attacked not just the dnc, they also attacked ...

Using influence campaigns around the world, they did it here, doing it in france and germany. >> still doing it. >> still doing it. the worst possible thing can you do is give information from your own word that is they can use against the credibility of our intelligence and defense services around the world. thats what the russians are doing, theyre taking the presidents words and injecting it into the influence operations and thats a problem. >> what do you think? how do you explain it? >> i t...

Number one, he undermined our intelligence answers and i was saying to the congressman sometimes it feels like were upside down. democrats are defending the cia, our intelligence agencies and here we have the head of the republican party saying he believes putin over our own intelligence agencies. but secondly, i think there is deep trouble when republicans refuse to do anything to shore up our elections. and we just had a motion on the floor, motion to recommit a bill to put money into election...

Questioning peter strzok, questioning lisa page, but nothing about our elect shumpb security. i think what the president did w was incredibly disturbing on so many levels. it feels like were upside down, and here you have the president of the united states, the head of the republican party saying he believes putin over the russian intelligence -- over our own intelligence agencies. but secondly, i think there is deep trouble when republicans refuse to do anything to shore up our elections. and w...

While we wait for robert muellers investigation to determine the full extent of the 2016 election, dan coats continues to emphasize how nervous he is about future russian cyberattacks. >> these actions are persistent, theyre pervasive, and they are meant to undermine americas democracy on a daily basis. >> so in an effort to protect the upcoming midterm elections from hackers, democratic lawmakers have proposed switching to paper ballots and streamlining the way state and federal officials excha...

Afterwards, this chant in congress. talk about that. what was behind that? >> it was spontaneous. this is a moment where we were shocked republicans would not embrace the idea we should provide help to communities and states on election security. we know that the russians will continue to try to hack into our systems, they are going to continue this assault on the united states. everyone in the intelligence community says it. the idea that we would take down our defenses and not provide states a...