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Here we g the white house asked for a letter about election security, not russia, and he said he asked democrats in all caps, not to do a public statement about russia during the same time period. give me a break. all right, katie pav lismt ch here as well. >> yes, president obama had the nsa at his disposal. homeland security, cia and he knew the russians were planning medal because they had medicine will in the elections before, not just the united states but around the world, and yet he did l...

That the obama white house asked for a statement about election security, not russia. mcconnells team also pointed to a "washington post" op-ed written by mcdonough last summer where he called the letter "ultimately successful." >> richard haas, at the end of the day, we hear this excuse for barack obama not doing enough in 2016, pinning it on mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnells actions i thought were really, really inappropriate and unfortunate. at the same time, as harry. is truman said, the buc...

Of all caps an exclamation points in polling right now. we asked in this new cnn poll, are you confident the trump administration is doing enough to prevent foreign influence in future elections? 60% say no, say the president, despite waking up talking about russia, is not doing enough to pre veent future influence. more fascinating, 80% of republicans say that he is. lynn sweet, thats a staggering split. >> you have that divide, partisan divide in other parts of your new poll, too, which is ver...

Dangerous in some ways kind of the easiest. its not that hard to hack someones inbox who is around a campaign and the thing its hardest to address. >> i also think by the way, very appealing to the public because everyone superiors their own privacy. they dont want to see the hacks whether theyre in business, whether theyre in a non-profit or political campaign. this means upgrading our nations security, doing what we havent done which our security heads honestly admitted today we have not done ...

Criminal sabotage noon inbotches that had a huge effect on the coverage. that seems like both the most dangerous in some ways kind of the easiest. its not that hard to hack someones inbox who is around a campaign and the thing its hardest to address. >> i also think by the way, very appealing to the public because everyone superiors their own privacy. they dont want to see the hacks whether theyre in business, whether theyre in a non-profit or political campaign. this means upgrading our nations...

Do expect to release a report on election security before next month. along with a review of just how extensive russias meddling has been in the elections that went by in 2016. >> pretty amazing reporting. thank you very much. senator, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> ill get to russia in a moment but first i want your reaction to the white house handling of the entire rob porter allegations. you know the chief of staff john kelly told the "wall street journal" that it was al...

More interested in this food fight of playing gotcha with the president or playing defense with the president rather than taking the necessary steps to make sure hostile powers do not influence our elections into the future. that ought to be the top priority. >> dana: mark, it would seem that this is something you could get bipartisan agreement on to try to tackle. is there anything concrete that you think they could have done that they havent done so far? >> well, look. i think there is a lot o...

Yet we have no minimum security requirements for the federal government purchasing of the iot devices. i have talked to general ashley on this, i dont believe there is even across the ic and d.o.d. prerequisite before we buy the connected refrigerators or consumer goods that there be that patchability. so i think theres a lot of work that we can do, but we dont have the luxury of short time. senator blunt raised some of the questions around election security. >> and right now on "andrea mitchell...

Ability, and proven to be effective as sowing division. there should be no doubt that russia perceived that its past efforts has been successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. >> reporter: and with congressional elections starting up again here very shortly, expect to see congress try to force this issue of how to improve election security because russia certainly hasnt stopped trying to weaken it. >> thank you for your great rep...

Visibility that the department had at the time. >> again, our cynthia mcfadden with a troubling report. catherine, theres a disconnect here in terms of the response. ultimately it is up to these individual states to be managing their voter rolls, to be managing election security. the role at the federal level, the role for the president, what should that be here? >> theyre very conflicted at this point because this president is invested in the idea that there was no russian meddling in the elect...