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2020, what scenarios -- two-part question. what scenarios most concern you and what recommendations do you have for us that we should do that maybe is something thats not in place now? >> well, the scenarios that most concern me about the ining at the integrity of elections are not necessarily cyber security related. in the cyber security realm, what i do worry about are the vulnerabilities around state voter registration databases. and we saw those vulnerabilities last fall. so i think there ne...

Infrastructure? >> not beyond what has been out there open source. >> martha: jay johnson also expressed his displeasure with the dnc after he said they refused to turn their servers over after they were hacked. >> i recall very clearly that i was not pleased that we were not in there helping them patch this vulnerability. dhs does not have the power to issue a search warrant and go in and patch their vulnerabilities over their objections. >> martha: weird, right? raising the question, what was ...

Up. he expressed the sort of realtime reality that there was a concern about saying too much might interfere with the election given the fact, as he describes it, there was one candidate talking about the election being rigged. we remember that tand is now the president of the united states. he also talked about smomething that was frustrating to him. they believe it was a russian hack on their databases and security and refused the help of the department of homeland security and jey johnson sai...

Was there any level of cooperation at all? >> to my disappointment. not to my knowledge, sir. this is a question i asked repeatedly when i first learned of it. what are we doing? are we in there? are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities. this is fresh off the opm experience. and there was a point at which dhs cybersecurity experts did get into opm and actually help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the ex-filtrations or at least minimize some of the damage. so, i was anxious...

Arrested by the fbi for making specific threats on my life and hell be arraigned tomorrow, actually, on three counts. so there are specific threats out there. i will tell you, were never going to be able to perfectly secure ourselves. im on the homeland security committee. we deal with even a homeland security threat. we cant live in a fortress or a bunker. our job is to engage and be out in the community. >> but if you have enough lawmakers in the same place at the same time, shouldnt we have -...

Aisle. senators and members of the house, men women. weve got two women that actually play with us and its a great time together. a great moment of camaraderie. we do this for a charity event tomorrow that raises half a million dollars for local boys and girls clubs and things of that nature and i never felt unsafe. in retrospect, when you think about the fact that both on the republican side and on the democratic sad and weigh gather on the same venue every morning with little to no security an...

Look at the vulnerabilities right now. >> jon: everyone of these events kind of changes the learning curve. one of the changes that will take place going forward after this? >> i think what is so unique about this obviously, as with the gabby giffords situation, you have an individual that is targeted, not a group of individuals particularly on a partisan basis, i was obviously deranged. but nevertheless, do these gatherings provide another vulnerability, another target for individuals. are ther...

T. justice department charging reality league winner. the document she allegedly leaked was the basis for a story published monday by the intercept. >> it includes details of a 2016 russian military cyber attack on a software supplier. winner is due in court on thursday. national security correspondent tim scuitto has the latest from washington. >> reporter: dave and christine, lets talk about this nsa document first. we know it was classified, prepared just last month in may. so some of the lat...

October seventh and publicly on january 6th. we saw efforts by russian intelligence at scanning and probing voter registration databases and we were concerned about it. thats why i encouraged all throughout august, september, october state election officials to come to us for cer security asstance in the department of homeland security. r the most part, they did. i was pleased with that. i uncovered a number of vulnerabilities which we helped them correct. it is the case that we see and we saw n...

The planet even as you agree that the planet is warming and it is man made. >> despite the fact that weve had more energy reduction and reduced the co2 footprint. it is not a wise thing to limit the number of resources. it creates vulnerabilities. we need more diversity from coal, natural gas, oil, hydro, nuclear, across the board. what we ought to be talking about is how we burn coal, how we burn electricity using natural gas, using the latest technology, innovation to reduce emissions. thats w...