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Case. they addressed to i.t. professionals, but no clear reason for states to take this threat more seriously were given. russia was trying to undermine the confidence of our election system. were here to express concerns but also competence in our state and local governments. i think whats important to understand is that tomorrow we will have an open hearing on election security. mark and i will be joining by four other members who are taking the lead on recommendations that we will post. i thi...

The president and his lawyers. i think its a -- its a kind of high-wire act because whatever he says is going to be subject to a great deal of checking. and if youll recall, some of mr. flynn, for example, ended up getting into trouble for not telling the truth to federal investigators. that in itself is a crime. so hes got to be very careful if he is going to have that interview. and, you know, if i were betting, i would be inclined to think that they probably will not have that kind of sit-dow...

Protocol ip address to i.t. professionals, but no clear reason for states to take this threat more seriously were given. russia was trying to undermine the confidence of our election system. we are here to express concerns, but also confidence in our state and local governments. now i think whats important to understand is that tomorrow we will have an open hearing specifically on election security. mark and i will be joined by four of our members who are taking the lead on the recommendations t...

And i hope that will be expressed maybe as early as the omnibus spending bill. with that let me turn to the vice chairman for any comments he might have. >> thank you, richard. i also think it is an indication of whos got better eyesight that you can read from this and i have to read off of this. let me first thank all of the members for being here and the way this committee has performed to date and i think will continue to perform. youre going to hear from four members who have worked actively...

Board, and the others together. the one thing i will give president trumps appointees, they all recognize the problem in terms of election security, that were going into primary season and were not safer than we were in meaningful ways than we were in 2016. you have even had the former head of the nsa, the fbi director, and the director of national intelligence in public testimony say in the last two weeks that theyve had no indication from the white house that election securities have got to be...

Known individuals fired in the dead of night. so i dont know if you can say that its completely fair, but it is not unfair. i think that the president of the united states did have his thumb on the scale. i think sessions, the attorney general, wanted to please the president and he moved to fire him at that last moment. >> we also, ted, heard from senator marco rubio this morning who said mccabe could be called as a witness in the senate intelligence committee investigation. listen to the senato...

Candidate or campaign has had as much contact with a foreign government before the election and immediately after. im not going to get into a timeline. unlike some others were actually going to not overtally politicize this. next week well take a very important step. well come out with a series of bipartisan recommendations on election security. one of the great frustrations i have is that we know the russians intervened in 21 of our states, electoral systems in 2016, they did it with impunity. ...

The house intel committee would be anything but bipartisan -- but partisan rather? >> so the past years investigation that the house has conducted, if we even want to call it that, has been completely partisan as john says. and this is such a shame for this committee because you know the intelligence committees historically have played a very different role than other committees in congress. they have the trust normally of the intelligence community that they will have access to classified infor...

49, if we had 49 spook agencies, they would be even more impressed. these are the same people, by the way that the one practical thing to come out of this thing is that we need election security. and yet the same people who say that they are scared about russians interfering in the election are the same people who are saying that illegal immigrants should have the right to vote. in which case if a venezuelan or a colombian can vote, why the hell cant a russian interfere? we can all get a piece o...

Roles. im told that kellyanne conway who was reprimanded last week for having violated the hatch act is not likely to be disciplined by president trump but white house lawyers have stepped up their warnings and reminders to people in the west wing, even going so far as to send around individual e-mails when the president tweets, this one is a political one dont retweet. >> well see if they follow orders. >> im going to return like a broken record to the russia probe. theres always something to w...