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Period in the summer of 2016 and up until the election in november. when the intelligence community was providing information but really had to wait for policy makers to make decisions about what they could release publicly, you know what steps might be taken to respond or not to respond. and so were probably seeing that all the way up to today where even if the intelligence community has information perhaps about future threats or ongoing capabilities to influence or affect our electoral proces...

And so that -- that played obviously through this time period in the summer of 2016 and up until the election in november. when the intelligence community was providing information but really had to wait for policy makers to make decisions about what they could release publicly, you know what steps might be taken to respond or not to respond. and so were probably seeing that all the way up to today where even if the intelligence community has information perhaps about future threats or ongoing c...

Team. but the intelligence community is limited regarding what it can actually do about any of this. and so that -- that played obviously through this time period in the summer of 2016 and up until the election in november. when the intelligence community was providing information but really had to wait for policy makers to make decisions about what they could release publicly, you know what steps might be taken to respond or not to respond. and so were probably seeing that all the way up to tod...

>> that didnt happen the first 30 days. he talked about it, but it was just recently discussed. >> like i said, we have this commission thats going to touch those processes. but when you look at what took place last october and november, it was a total failure on the obama administration. the question is, what has the president done? >> hes put together this thing that focused on what he calls voter fraud. >> youre deciding what it is focused on -- >> im just basing that on his tweets. >> the tw...

With me and joy reid, that this could happen. not only could it happen but it would be to be the next step. president obama took seriously. john brennan in august called the director of the fsb. russian intelligence. hair on fire saying get out of our election. stop this operation that youre doing. obama called putin himself on the red phone and said do not play with the electoral process. i wonder, if that hadnt happened, if they would have attempted to take the steps. >> which leads to the las...

Congress still refuse to call it what it was, which was russian interference and really to start to take real action against the russian government to make sure that we send a clear signal to russia and other country whos would interfere are our elections in 2018, 2020 or beyond. for example, brian, i asked secretary johnson a direct question, which is does he know of any law that sets up any basic cyber security requirement to protect our voting systems? and his plain answer was no. that needs ...

Action against the russian government to make sure that we send a clear signal to russia and other countries who would interfere with our elections in 2018, 2020, or beyond. for example, brian, i asked secretary johnson a direct question, which is does he know of any law that sets up any basic cybersecurity requirement to protect our voting systems. and his plain answer was no. that needs to change. americans deserve to know that their democratic processes are secure and safe. >> how are you fee...

This is a crisis afoot and not acting to preserve and protect the next presidential election perhaps? >> yeah, whats specially disturbing is that president trump and the white house and even many leaders in the congress still refuse to call it what it was, which was russian interference and really to start to take real action against the russian government to make sure that we send a clear signal to russia and other country whos would interfere are our elections in 2018, 2020 or beyond. for exam...

Processes were tampered with. the influence was done to the election. the dnc was hacked. military members, u.s. military members were targeted on social media as part of this effort as well. it is across the board. there are 17 intelligence agencies that say that. and theres been no other explanation for where this hacking came from. and yet we still hear doubt from only one individual and that would be the president. >> phillip rucker, what did we witness in the briefing room today? in additio...

Biased and not an honest broker and now jared kushner has been sent, when he and his family have been involved in the investigations that have been such a conflict to the peace deal for so long. >> secretary of state rex tillerson is apparently not involved in this process. is there any outside way in which you can see this meeting thats going on right now with mahmoud abbas resulting in the palestinians saying, all right, maybe youre on to something. lets talk. >> no, i dont, to be honest. rex ...