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Important component of the voting infrastructure so we wanted to highlight the vulnerability so i came up with the idea of having kids do it so that they would find it interesting. that being said even the kids, and 11-year-old girl was able to hack replica florida website. ed: 11-year-old was able to hack? >> just so you know, the guy who built this with the chief information security officer for rocketdyne, one of the biggest rocket manufacturers in the united states. he does cybertraining for...

Our values. the task force now brings together across the waterfront of fbi expertise. so were talking counterintelligence, cyber, criminal, and even counterterrorism. designed to root out and respond to foreign influence operations. for their part, our adversaries influence operations have encompassed a wide range of activities. so just like we have a multidisciplinary response, thats because the threat is multidisciplinary. so just a few examples of some of the things weve seen over the past. ...

Of the expertise, the cyber, and the counterterrorism designed to root out and respond to the foreign influence operations. for their part, our adversaries influence operations have encompassed a wide range of activities. like we have a multidisciplinary response, that is because the threat is multidisciplinary. examples in the past, targeting the u.s. officials and u.s. persons through traditional intelligence trade craft. criminal effort to suppress voting and provide illegal campaign financin...

Be able to get to the level of these adversaries and stare them down. were talking about the most sophisticated cyberoperators in the world, russian intelligence, the iranians, the north koreans. >> reporter: the trump administration has come under fire for not announcing a comprehensive, coordinated plan to thwart cyberthreats. >> i think it is an embarrassment that this white house has not made election security a top priority and has not put the kind of attention and focus on it that we need....

>> the trump administration has come under fire for not announcing a comprehensive coordinated plan to thwart cyberthreats. >> i think its an embarrassment that this white house has not made election security a top priority and has not put the kind of attention and focus on it that we need. >> in may, the cybercoordinator role on the national security councils was eliminated as top intelligence officials sounding the ararm. comparing the state of danks to the months before the 9/11 attacks. >> i...

Kated opera kated operators in the world. >> reporter: the trump administration come under fire for not announcing a coordinated plan to thwart cyber threats. >> i think its an embarrassment that this white house did not make election security a top priority and not put the kind of attention and focus on it that we need. >> reporter: in may, the cyber coordinator role on the council was eliminated as officials sound the alarm comparing the current state to the months before the 9/11 attacks. >> ...

Details how bad actors operate. they target voting infrastructure like voting machines. they steal and weaponize voter data. help politicians with compromising email to damaging political opponents. spread false information and rely on unlawful lobbiying efforts. same hackers who went after the clinton emails remain active. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and we saw metadata that suggests that those p...

Here at aspen yesterday and he said that he felt he had a public duty to be up front with the american people and traitor about wha -- transparent to the american people. americans know. they can be educated and armed in order to understand what information is really credible. >> public attribution foreign influence campaigns to help encounter and mitigate a harm caused by foreign sponsored misinformation. when people are aware of the true sponsor they can make better informed decisions. >> the ...

Credible. >> public attribution, foreign influence campaigns can help mitigate the harm caused by foreign sponsor misinformation. when team are aware of the sponsor, they can make better decisions. >> the newly-released justice department report lays out the key elements of the foreign systems that are targeting the u.s. they include attacking voting infrastructure so voting machines and the software associated with voting, also helping politicians damage their opponents think of hacking the dnc...

>> so, ill just say we once had a law in this country called the help america vote act, haba. funding for voting infrastructure to the states. we the. all right. thank you so much for spending so money time with us. we are grateful. when we come back, is the republican party effectively dead? one of its most recent leaders seems to suggest it is. at least for now.