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former american president. its hard to overstate how not normal this is or how not normal it used to be before donald trump. since the search of mar-a-lago, there has been a spike in threats toward law enforcement. the bulletin was an internal warning for authorities to watch out, that their own personal safety might be at risk, quote, the fbi and dhs have observed an increase in threats to federal law enforcement and to a lesser extent other law enforcement and government officials fo...

Election interference. here we are about six weeks out before the midterms. how are we looking? >> were looking securely in secure. national security when you do a threat assessment you often look at at intent and capabilities. we have four adversaries that have the most advanced cybersecurity abilities in the world and john bolton says theyre trying to attack us. we have gross physical and social insecurities. our infrastructure, state voting systems, cane decades-old laws. and the ceo of twitt...

Largely because there were a couple reasons who were highly paid lobbyists in d.c. his opponent made clear that pawlentys negative remarks about president trump didnt reflect where the republican party was in the state and as weve seen across the country that meant pawlenty is no longer in politics. >> i think he left a $2.7 million a year job and his name is known so well in the state. thanks for taking us through it all. appreciate it. as we are fast approaching the midterms as we just talke...

To be running for governor. drew griffin has more. >> reporter: right around the same time russians were trying to penetrate state voting systems in the summer of 2016, cyber security expert and part time hacker logan lamb decided to check out how georgias centralized voting system was holding up. he found an open window. >> there were documents with election day supervisor passwords, a voter registration database with 6.3 million records of all of georgias voters. >> reporter: including full na...

Story for us. drew, this security breach in georgia going on for months, really alarming. >> honestly, thats all we know about. this could have been going on a lot longer than that. we dont know how long its been going on. the state of georgia didnt know how long its been going on and its led to this claim that the entire system in georgia is unreliable and insecure. right around the same time russians were trying to penetrate state voting systems in the summer of 2016, cyber security expert and...

Up, protect the president. and as again as you pointed out this is by the person whos charged with leading a committee that is tasked with oversight. >> one of the with us things you can do in intelligence is give away an intelligence source. u.s. congressman nunes was dismissive of the fbis concerns on that front. "the washington post" posted they are citing spurious national security concerns to evade congressional oversight. we will succeed in getting this information regardless of whatever f...

Concerns that seem to be amplified that you know, when some people say you cant prove that a single vote was changed, im not sure that the average american should be waiting for proof that a single vote has been changed. the idea there may have been state voting systems penetrated by russian interference voting lists scanned should be enough to worry all americans. >> very much so. i think secretary tillerson committed an important truth when he said that the russians will be agile here. in fact...

>> im now joined by national security analyst john mclaughlin, a former acting director of the cia. good to see you. >> good evening, ali. >> talk to me about these concerns that seem to be amplified that you know, when some people say you cant prove that a single vote was changed, im not sure that the average american should be waiting for proof that a single vote has been changed. the idea there may have been state voting systems penetrated by russian interference voting lists scanned should b...

Of trying to understand the russia connection question? is there anything you would tweak or change in the structure we have right now, with the special counsel and four investigations on the hill? >> no. i think that the investigations on the hill serve one purpose, and they arent looking at crim crimes. they do nothing about crimes. mueller can look at the crimes, but we as americans need to know what went wrong, how the russians were able to hack into state voting systems, how they were able ...

Effort to hack into the election system. we know that from various reports. and the attorney general said really nothing was going on, he hadnt been able to pay -- im paraphrasing, he said its important we havent spent enough time on it. im getting a sense thats true across the government. we have systems that were hacked within a half an hour at defcom by state voting systems, what is the fbi doing relative to preserving the integrity of the voting structure itself for the next election? >> mr....