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Ability, for the metaphor, to clear the forest. or is it too vast? what is your sense here. >> we have the capacity but it requires strong presidential leadership. the president has to say this is a national priority. we are going to protect american elections and protect the important institutions that make up our democracy. and then put together an interagency task force and charge them with doing everything that is necessary to protect our elections. we have the capability, we have great law ...

Side of russia against the american intelligence community and dismissed an attack on our democracy. and there was followed up by republicans and then congress who took $380 million out of funding for election security. when we tried to put it back they blocked that amendment. this is serious. we ought to be coming together, republicans, democrats and independents to prevent foreign adversaries from interfering in the elections. >> talk about the fallout of the meeting with vladimir putin in hel...

Washington, lots of times the fbi follows them around and never arrests them. this time shes being prutd. the other thing rod rosenstein said they will do going forward is take greater steps to make these things public when they see them. theres an issue of classification, because often the way they learn about this stuff is through secret intelligence records, but it could be helpful if they could expose covert campaigns and say this is the russians. american public, you need to know that. rod ...

Putin instead of with america. >> republicans say congress has fully funded election security, this is all political theater. what can you tell us? what should people know? >> we are not acting as a country like weve been attacked. after 9/11, the government reorganized itself and put billions of dollars into combatting the terrorists. were not doing it with the foreign influence threat. money isnt the only way to secure elections, but its part of the problem. states have outdated equipment and ...

Munich conference, indisputable evidence russia meddled and the president said what mcmaster forgot to mention is i won -- whatever it was electoral votes, crooked hillary was terrible. that got under his skin. again, like, this is -- these advisers are not crazy to think that this dan coats interview could have a fairly interesting impact once the president watches it. >> we will see what happens. jonathan swan, thank you so much. always appreciate it. coming up later this morning, we will be...

President turning a blind eye to russian meddling, a house spending bill vote later today does not extend funding to help states with election security. >> we have sworn an oath to defend our constitution and our -- >> the gentlemans time has expired. >> -- against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> the gentlemans time has expired. >> you have the opportunity to do that today. >> the russia debate across the capital but we begin with the president who now says he wants another, a second meetin...

Secretary clinton and contrasting her unfavorably to him. jim sciutto pressed the secretary of the homeland security department on her answer. take a listen to this. >> are you saying you agree with not only the assessment that it was russia that interfered but that their intention was to help donald trump and disadvantage hillary clinton? can you say those words very simply? >> i agree with the intel communitys assessment full stop. any attack on our democracy whether successful or unsuccessful...

Security, meanwhile the house rejected an effort by democrats to make in order, a plan offered by mike quigley of illinois, a democrat to add $380 million additional for election security. but republicans rejected the effort. then rising to chant "usa, usa, usa." it is getting raucous up in there. what do you make of that? >> ari: i dont know what that was, have yet to see it as congress does these things, was it an order or something they should have been doing at the time? but what bothers me ...

Security of our nation and its critical infrastructure. department of homeland security has taken the lead in working with all 50 states, local governments and private companies to improve election security. dhs has increased coordination among all election partners. 34 states, 52 county and local governments, and five election companies received cyber security scans regularly from dhs. d had. s plans to provide onsite risk and vulnerabilitys sismen asseo all states that request it. so for five ...

Director comey was getting to. the republican party cant handle controlling the white house and both houses of congress. the fact of the matter is theyre letting an autocratic president run wild. they dont have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the president. yesterday you heard tweets about how they disagreed with the president on helsinki, but theyve done nothing in terms of showing their mettle in votes to show they want to protect this country. theyre going to get to vote an an amendme...