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Being trained like that? i think doctors still think of themselves as these hyper rationale, hyper analytic and the bedside manner is old fashioned med medicine. theres meant to be these brainiacs. >> thats one of the problems, weve been selecting brainiacs. we wont need them and their grade point average and admission test scores. we need the people that are going to exude compassion. emotion gence is going to become a much more precious selection criteria. >> when looking at mental illnesses, ...

Extensive activity beginning in 2014 and carrying into 2017 in an attempt to intrude at some point all 50 states where the russians either tested vulnerabilities or extracted information. just your initial reaction to this. >> well, its exactly what you expect. i was just in europe talking to members of parliament and different countries there. they said russians are trying to do the same things there. we have to understand they will try to impact our elections. weve got to be very diligent. whe...

I think that tells you-- >> is there a reason for caution among republicans and trump supporters? this time four years ago everyone was saying donald trump is too crazy i, too far right, too bombastic, annoys too many people. never elected president and he was number one in the polls, and he came out on top. >> one thing you learn, especially in the age of trump, is never say never because-- im not saying he doesnt have any vulnerabilities, but he has somehow like a wizard made his opponents opp...

We need financial and technical resources to shore up our systems. >> more than laughable, its frightening to -- what do states do when theyre not able to rely on federal assistance? >> lots of states have been full lay wear of their vulnerabilities, have been trying to close them. second, theyre looking at redid you understand cities like paper and doing an so if something does happen, they would be well aware of it and disclose it. this is like telling states that youre under physical threat f...

Vulnerabilities maybe they were probing the vulnerabilities because they want to exploit them later. maybe they want us to know theyre probing the vulnerabilities, the notion is that if you undermine peoples confidence in the system, you have done really most of your work. you dont actually have to change votes or get in the systems. i wonder whether that, the reason i think its relevant is that they did so many things that were easily detectable. they didnt cover their tracks. when you look at ...

Accusing georgia officials for ground zero of election hacking and possible manipulation of election results. how much confidence do you have in states being able to manage this? >> theres a lot there but its awareness and resources for the states. we know what the threat is. pt thre the threat is the attack of our electoral system. its now understanding each state by state what are the vulnerabilities that they have internally and how were they going to put the proper resources against that to ...

Apologize is not calculated to look tough? what did he end up looking like? he ended up looking like an old white guy who doesnt know he ought to apologize when someone says you hurt me and then gin up the argument, make principled assaults upon them because he could have well said kamala harris has some vulnerabilities that need to be articulated that he could do. >> lets just be fair -- professor, i accept that but jennifer, what happens when you apologize in politics? you get beat up for apol...

Theyre on the campaign trail and on the debate stage next week. all that matters because several democratic strategists and canal pains i spoke with said that the policy rollouts are one way for candidates to try to close the gaps of vulnerabilities they might have. meaning its a way to preemptively shield themselves from attacks that might come from the other candidates on their record or positions on issues or the vision for the issue when theyre on the debate statement with nine other people ...

Targeted all 50 states in illinois as of 2018, quote, russian cyber actors were in a position to delete or change voter data, but the committee is unaware of any evidence that they did so. russia has targeted all 50 states. we know that to be sure. why wouldnt russians seize the opportunity to change voter data here? were they not able to infiltrate? >> well, they may have about, but honestly i think the overarching russian objective is to undermine americans confidence in the integrity of the v...

Exploited by the russians? >> so, there are a lot of outdated systems in our electoral infrastructure from voter registration databases to the voting systems themselves to the fact that several states are still using paperless ballots so that you cant verify paper ballot results with electronic results. these are vulnerabilities that the russians were at least probing in all 50 states in the runup to the 2016 election. whats important about the senate intelligence committee report is that it sho...