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Coordinator michael daniel told the committee that by late august 2016, he had already personally concluded the russians had attempted to intrude in all 50 states based on the extent of the activity and the apparent randomness of the attempts. intelligence developed later in 2016 bolstered mr. daniels assessment. all 50 states were targeted. >> thank you, chris, for your question. im a recovering computer science major, and i worked on cyber security issues since ive come to congress. it is not ...

President, override a veto. you cant do this with a republican congress. weve got a few republicans to support us in the arm sales resolutions. today in the foreign relations committee, we passed another bill cutting off arm sales for a year. but there arent enough to actually stand up to the veto and the compromised nature of american foreign policy today poenl possibly explained, likely explained by the presidents financial intertwinement with many of our adversary series absolutely bone-chill...

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Buck. you look at something like twitter. twitter has more users than america has americans. those are global users, but the point is with a simple retweet of a conspiracy theory, a lie, misinformation, inflammatory content, especially from someone like president trump, they get to reach so many american voters instantaneously, which is very different than traditional means of trying to use propaganda or other covert activities. >> i want to play some sound from michael daniel, president obamas ...

Understand where that information is coming from to the best of your ability. >> all right. michael daniel, appreciate your perspective. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much. >> absolutely. and its a critical election with a lot at stake obviously. the balance of power in congress. 36 governor races. thousands of local elections. were going to bring you all the key races with up-to-the-minute results. our special live coverage starts on election night at 5:00 eastern. a u.s. sold...

Needs to happen now. >> the way to find common humanity to find what it is in our culture driving this fear. if we could try to understand what each other are afraid of, at least that, and how we understand the world, then maybe we could at least begin to come together. >> you can watch the rest of the interview with jeff ballabon at cnn.com. next, democracy under attack. twitter deletes thousands of automated accounts that were trying to discourage people from voting. barak obamas former cybe...

Elections, where are the russians? from cnn politics, russian troll threat hasnt gone away as election day nears. are federal and state and local governments ready to protest or to protect, rather, these elections? we have michael daniel with us now. the president of cyber threat alliance and the former cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to president obama. thank you very much, mr. daniel, for being with us here. you had testified i know before the senate intel committee in june. an...

Course on this. thanks for the reporting. lets talk more about this now with michael daniel, former cyber security coordinator and special assistant to president obama. nice to have you. >> thank you for having me. >> so, you said, look, it is not surprising that facebook found this kind of activity and we know from all our u.s. intelligence agencies that they were going to do it again. but the -- when you look at what the head of cyber security policy at facebook says. "these bad actors have ...

He will not face charges. former president barack obama cyber chief confirming that he was told to stand down in response to russian meddling. as far as your cyber response, you were told to stand down; is that correct? >> we were -- those actions were put on the back burner, yes. that order coming from then national security advisor susan rice. michael daniel said he recommended a full range of actions to, quote. impose costs on the russians, but those offers werent accepted. this is a reminder...

>> former president barack obamas cyber chief confirming he was told to stand down in response to russian meddling. >> national security adviser susan rice. more on the shocking revelation. >> pres. obama cyber security coordinator michael daniel confirmed what was reported in the book, testifying before the intelligence committee and asked about excerpts from russian roulette and they knew about cyberattacks in the 2016 election here and planning to respond. dont get ahead of us in 2016, anothe...