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Been through two times that we dont have a situation where one of the states cant be defend on. >> and it almost happened in 2016 when two florida counties had their electoral infrastructure breached by russian military intelligence. so this is the real concern. there are over 10,000 electoral jurisdictions across the country. some of them dont even have dedicated i.t. staff. so you have all these vulnerabilities from antiquated voting machines to the software clinton was talking about, the vote...

Malware that is sent usually via email. its sent out to a workforce, say a state or local government. and when they click on it encrypts or destroys, prevents access to the data on that system, unless you pay a ransom to usually whoever the hackers are. typically, its via digital currency like bitcoin. if you pay that ransom, they will decrypt that information. but sometimes you pay the ransom and they dont decrypt it anyway. it has crippled many state and local governments. they have many vulne...

Working, the department of homeland security is working with state and local governments to try to shore up some of these vulnerabilities. on the other hand, were so focused on, you know, 2016 and president trump that we have myopia when we think about this issue. this is a long-term challenge. this is going to outlast president trump ultimately. >> this is why were talking about it. >> thank you so much. clinton watts, thank you so much. up next, trump setting his sights on the three likely rep...

We were watching the monmouth poll closely, bill, because it may have been the candidates last chance to make the debate stage. ten of them will be there for the first time altogether in that configuration, but at least ten more will not. as you look at this, bill, what do you make of the fact that besides joe biden were looking at largely progressive candidates? >> a couple of points. the monmouth poll is a pretty good poll. you have a higher margin of error when you have 300 rather than 400 or...

>> they are classic -- if the chinese way of doing business. they prey on any vulnerabilities that they can identify in susceptible americans and they found, in these cases, that there were problems there that they could exploit. they are very subtle, theyre very good at it. they have been doing this for a long time and unfortunately theyve been very, very successful. >> martha: so in many cases they had used chinese nationals, or reach out to them. theres indications now, as we saw in these pho...

Those tensions. give us if top line, the top prescription making that happen, given the perspective you have. >> well, as human beings, we get to choose. its important that we make a choice of love or fear. when we respond to fear with fear, we dont make the problem better. we have to respond differently and come at it from the place of love. >> theres a lot of talk about interventi intervention, when you look at what happened in el paso, for instance. how these things can be stopped or staved o...

So i did something that i typically dont do, and i actually went after him. i pursued him, and very quickly established a good rapport with him. and i listened to him and how tired he was of the hate and also how sorry he was for some of the things that hes been seeing happening lately. so really just listened a lot to him and i tried to be an ear for him because in that movement theres not a whole lot you can be honest about with the other people in it, its always about putting up a show of for...

American security. we heard the fake one from the irs trying to sue you. i got one saying saying that myl security was being suspended. i want to know what the recordings are in chinese, there are recordings in chinese, spook local numbers, who are these people, what do they get from us, who we are, you dont even talk to them? >> yeah, exactly. trust me ive been victim to the -- have been victim to same kind of thing, i think this really reflects two big ideas and that is that theres a cat and m...

Me and followed for a long time as ive been researching this movement and over the last couple years, ive seen some cracks in his armor so to speak. i seen hesitation. i did something i typically dont do, i went after him and established a good rapport to him and listened to him and how tired he was of the hate and also how sorry he was for some of the things that hes been seeing happening lately so i really just listened to him and tried to be an ear for him because in that movement, there is n...

I seen hesitation. i did something i typically dont do, i went after him and established a good rapport to him and listened to him and how tired he was of the hate and also how sorry he was for some of the things that hes been seeing happening lately so i really just listened to him and tried to be an ear for him because in that movement, there is not a lot you can be honest about. its about putting up a show of force. for the first time in his life, he had somebody listen to vulnerabilities. th...