in tampa, florida. the president sowing the seeds deputy national security adviser would not necessarily rise to of distrust in the electoral the occasion of doing something process raising an obvious question the very next day. so public and so extraordinary, does the president still believe that millions of people are voting illegally in this and also where does this go from country? is that the basis for this push here? is this something that we re going to see more of? for requiring voter i.d.s? are there more people, as even if there are ten people melania trump has implied in the that are voting illegally, it past, who she d like to get rid shouldn t happen. the president wants to see the of because she thinks for whatever reason they don t integrity of our elections belong working in her systems upheld. husband s and that s the purpose of his jen, i m thinking if, you know, michelle obama had done comments. sarah sanders could offer no this how that would be evidence o
e identify vulnerabilities. lamb didn t kn lamb called georgia s center for elections systems run out of this house on the campus of kennesaw state university to tell them. six months later, everything was still unprotected. everything was still available. what does that tell you about the secure election of the state of georgia? ga s election systems should not be trusted. reporter: eventually kennesaw state closed the loophole. a lawsuit was filed challenging the security of georgia s elections. then shockingly evidence of what took place vanished. i.t. workers wiped the election system s computer hard drives clean, deleting any potential evidence of tampering. i blow up government spending. reporter: the person in charge of georgia s elections is
republican governor rick scott. the administration responded to this warning from nelson this week by insisting they had no idea what he was talking about beak saying as far as we know everything s fine. that sounds crazy. rick scott himself gave a speech today in which he accused senator nelson of making things up. but senator bill nelson is standing by his statement and he s offering some important detail. also, notably, the state s other senator, republican member of the senate intelligence committee marco rubio is not disputing senator nelson s account. today he released a statement taking no issue with any son s remarks and declaring his state s elections systems have been and will remain a potentially attractive target for attacks by foreign actors. the tampa bay times also reports bill nelson s account was partly corroborated by two county officials who said they heard a similar warning at a private meeting with rubio earlier this year in may. senator nelson says both he and s
it s more of a wildfire. the u.s. is essentially facing a cyber insurgency. you re seeing lateral movement, they compromise systems and then move between connected networks and plant back doors or secret passage ways in the systems so they have have access in the future. this is being done in the energy and financial sector and targeting major institutions of the west from nato organizations to u.s. institutions themselves. energy, financial institutions. how about the elections systems? we re talking about vote counting, any evidence that is going on there? we have no true evidence it s going on in those systems but those systems are incredibly vulnerable to compromise and attack. those systems do not have security, they have not been assessed for compromises that may exist and some states have been reticent to help the help from the commerce department of homeland security and fbi in
president s involvement in there. his leadership, his determination, to prevent foreign influence in elections. we meet on this constantly. the senior staff and the white house. we meet with the heads of the different agencies. we ve already had two full national security council meetings chaired by the president. as i say, countless other discussions as well. since january 2017, the president has taken decisive action to defend our elections systems from meddling and interference. this includes measures to systems and processes, to confront russian and other foreign maligned influence in the united states. to confront such aggression through international action. and to reinforce a strong sanctions regime. as you know, elections are