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At one point the former director of national intelligence james clapper became over it. >> i understand how critical leaks are and unmavgds and all these ancillary issues, but to me, the issue here is the russian interference in our election process and what that means to the erosion of the fundamental fabric of our democracy, and that to me is a huge deal and theyre going to continue to do it and why not? it proved successful. >> it approved successful, at least so far. joining us for the inter...

Protegs. if you will please rise. did you affirm the testimony at the subcommittee is the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god. mr. clapper. >> ranking member ask members of the subcommittee, certainly didnt expect to be before this committee again so soon since i thought i was done with this when i left the government. and this is only my first of two hearings this week. but understandably concern about the egregious russian intern fierce of the election process is is so...

2020 where director comey had said i expect to see them back in 2018 and especially 2020. those are his words. do you agree with that? >> absolute fwli. >> and that is why an independent commission could help us come up with an idea of how to prevent this from having again, how the media handles these things, how intelligence agencies handle these things, because we cannot allow foreign countries to influence our democracy. do you agree, director clapper? >> i certainly do and unmasking and all ...

Grudgingly though i admit it, serves that purpose to the extent that this can be shared openly. i do think as well there needs to be more done in the way of sanctions to the russians or any other government that attempts to interfere in our election process. >> im done. >> thank you very much. senator klobuchar. >> thank you, and we thank you both for being here again. i think senator graham then asked if you would want to come back, director clapper, and were very glad that youre here. when i a...

Different states have different election equipment and were working on a bill on this. how important is it to protect the integrity of our election? >> its quite important and speaking now as a -- as a private citizen, not in my former capacity, i do think that our election a rattus should be considered critical infrastructure and should have the protections that are attendant to that. a lot of states push back. secretary of homeland security engaged with state election officials about having th...

Thing we can do in this hearing. grudgingly though i admit it. served that purpose. i think that there needs to be more done in the way of sanction to the russians or any other government that attempts on interfere in our election process. >> im done. >> senator? >> we thank you both for being here again. i think senator graham asked if you would want to come back, director clapper, and we were very glad that youre here. so when i asked my questions before, i asked about this general fact if a h...

Punished russia for meddling in our election. thats about the most pro--russian thing you can do. >> absence of something. >> absence of something in american foreign policy is a major act. if a country meddles in your election process and you say were good with that is a benefit youre conveying to the other foreign power. >> in terms of politics the russian issue is not going away. today when sally yates testifies, russia will be back on the front page again. >> boom. all right. guess what else...

Different states have different election equipment, were working on a bill on this. how important is that to protect the integrity of our election? >> its quite important. speaking now as a private citizen, not in my former capacity, i do think our election apparatus should be considered critical infrastructure and should have the protections that are attendant to that. a lot of states pushed back when jeh johnson, secretary of homeland security, engaged with state election officials about havin...

We have different states with different election equipment, were working on a bill on this, how important is to it frequent integrity of our election? >> it is quite important. and speaking now as a private citizen, not my former capacity, i do think that our election apparatus should be considered critical infrastructure and should have the protections that are attended to that. a lot of the states pushed back when jay johnson engaged with officials about having that designation and having the ...

Raise your right hand, please. do you affirm that the testimony you are about to give to this subcommittee is the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> mr. clapper. >> ranking member of the subcommittee. certainly didnt expect to be before this committee or any other committee of congress again so soon since i thought i was all done with this when i left government. and this is one of my first two hearings this week. understandably, concern about the russian i...