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As far as north korea is concerned success may take longer than i like. maybe longer than you would li like. >> china is the focal point of the diplomatic effort. beijing accounts for about 90% of the trade-in u.s. officials have openly criticize the chinese this week for not using the overwhelming influence to determine the nuclear ambition. well have to see if that changes after todays meeting. >> thank you. >> julie: at home state officials are meeting in indianapolis to tackle election secur...

Election security, state by state by state, from foreign actors who seek to undermine confidence in our system or worse through cyberattacks and other means. thats where we should be focusing our attention. thats where im focusing my attention and where i would advise others to do so as well. this is a distraction. its unnecessary. more than that, its harmful. >> i would agree with you i think many americans have come to the conclusion that the bigger threat to our voter integrity are these hack...

Conversations with folks in the intel community and the national security apparatus, these are patriots, and these are people who served the country. not one party or the other. what their gravest fear about a hearing like today, landing on deaf ears at the white house? >> well, honestly, their greatest fear is we are unprotected against what they expect will be another round of even more serious russian attempts to interfere in the election to attack the democracy, to destabilize. i mean, a cou...

Cnns manu raju is up on capitol hill. meantime, theres a lot of other activity going on. >> no question, jeh johnson is actually in the room right now, john, as this hearing is about to take place. hes already met behind closed doors with the senate and house intelligence committees as part of the investigation into the russia meddling issue and any possible collusion that occurred between trump associates and russian officials. also right now the senate intelligence committee having its own hea...

>> you found a handful. >> its a small number. as i say about voter fraud, it exists. its rare. were building a stronger system every day to make sure it doesnt exist or that we can eliminate it and, look, our system in ohio is as good as its ever been. we try to strike this balance 50 states operate under 50 different sets of rules. some emphasize election security, some access. we try to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. we think weve got a good formula here in ohio. >> what would a nati...

Was brought up before the election. not like hes coming out of nowhere. we did stories about it. a press release on october 7th about election security. they said the u.s. intelligence community is confident the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from the u.s. they did say the russian government, they believe, is behind it. so it was discussed. >> well, the reason they didnt say it was an attempt to support donald trump is because theres no evidence there was "a" and "...

There are leaks, very unfortunate leaks, what should concern us as americans. leaks there a confidential closed door house intelligence committee meeting where people are leaking, cia is leaking, somebody in the house is leaking and the fbi is coming back and saying theres not a consensus view, its, quote, fuzzy and ambiguous, its not at all clear. yet people are supposed to be led to believe that somehow this caused the election result. we know what caused the election result. we know why she l...

System. >> is this worth your time, do you think? all this money? when theres no evidence and given how difficult it would be to hack into these systems? >> you know, we should not have a voting system in which we have to prove that theres been fraud or tampering in order to have confidence. in my mind, the american people are begging for a system that we can believe in. theres widespread cynicism and disgust with our basic institutions from the supreme court to the presidency to the press, you ...

Can believe in. theres widespread cynicism and disgust with our basic institutions from the supreme court to the presidency to the press, you name it, we are off the charts right now in lack of trust for our basic institutions. for us to be able to trust our votes and know that our votes count and that they are accurate is just a basic principle of democracy. what we do know is that these machines have been proven in the laboratory of computer scientists and the scientists who look at election s...

Cia missionss in pakistan and missions for election security. no one know whats that should be. he contracted malaria in vietnam where he never served. and even if this was legit he should have been fired for not being around to do his job. >> if he did his job it would probably be worse. so that is a good thing. andy, he is an expert on climate change which means his whole life is built around fraud. >> first of all, you are all cheap. not surprising this is the usual tone. none are questioning...