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Vulnerabilities across the country. and jeh johnson, the secretary of homeland security and others went to work to try to protect our election. >> should we have known that? again, not -- i know hindsight is 20 /20. i would think as somebody participating in the election, if somebody was invading the electoral process, i would have known to have known that in september. >> this is something we talked about in the fall. we did make a strategic decision to keep this below the radar. the reason was...

And its tricky to figure out a way to push back hard against vladamir putin because of the involvement in our elections, any of the other activities s or russia is engaged in worldorldw. its difficult to find a good line of policy that doesnt have a lot of unintended consequences. so it goes from the range of a very strong cyber approach, are there signer vulnerabilities that the united states can launch attacks, all the way back to the somewhat emotionally less satisfying and less effective san...

Joining us now is ellen nakashima from the washington post one of the reporters who wrote this blockbuster piece today at the post. congratulations on this opus, this real achievement. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> so one key piece of your reporting and this is a complex piece, is that the obama administration was very worried as to what the russians might do in response if there was a strong american pushback, a strong american response to the attack before the election. is it clear t...

At ukraine and forcing blackouts by hacking their energy grid. the u.s. infrastructure energy grid is horrifically outdated so we have serious vulnerabilities, not just to our electoral and democratic system. we have serious infrastructure vulnerabilities that now the russians are going to be using to their advantage. >> evan, at the same time, just to go back for a second to the obama administrations response, if you look at it at the time, you were running for president. you could probably vou...

Today at "the post." miss nakashima congratulations on this real achievement. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> so one key piece of your reporting, and this is a complex piece, is that the obama administration was very worried as to what the russians might do in response if there was a strong american pushback, a strong american response to the attack before the election. is it clear that the obama administration had a clear understanding of the russians capabilities, about what the russia...

The russia information that the "washington post" reports he knew about in july of 2016. the president trump tweeting just out, the obama administration knew far in advance of november 8th about election meddling by russia. did nothing about it. now as more details unfold surrounding the russian meddling into the 2016 election, theres a journalist who says some experts are now looking at ukraine as the blueprint for whats to come in the u.s. he says the country is suspected of being russias cybe...

Nagashima. shes national security reporter for the post, one of them who wrote this blockbuster piece for the post. ellen, congratulations on this opus today. its a real achievement. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> one key piece of your reporting, and this is a complex piece, is that the obama administration was very worried as to what the russians might do in response if there was a strong american mupushback, a strong american response to the attack before the election. is it clear ...

In response if there was a strong pushback, a strong american response to the attack before the election. is it clear that the obama administration had a clear understanding of the russians capables? >> in fact, the white house did undertake a pretty in depth review of what the vulnerabilities is of the electoral system were last summer, and they had a top voting system expert in the country heading up that team. what they found was because theres something like 3,000 voting jurs disdictions in ...

Intelligence committee, is looking at as well? >> i cant comment on it at this time, but im sure in the very near future youll hear more about it coming from the committee. >> its a worrisome development if its true. >> very worrisome. i think for those folks who argued for keeping paper ballots and paper files and microfilm, i think they have a point. but we live in some a digitalized society that its very difficult to do, because i think in terms of keeping huge amounts of data, and were talki...

>> in the public intelligence that was released january 6th, and the motive seems to have ranged from wanting to undermine the credibility of our election, wanting to undermine the credibility of the clinton presidency, to favoring donald trump. >> why favoring -- why? we know that. but was there any intelligence, why they wanted to favor donald trump? >> well, you would have to look at the public reporting, but the more important issue here, frankly, was that there was a very powerful foreign a...