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I love the studio. Melissa almost like the studio you are in later. Almost the position. Dagen im on the five first time tomorrow. Look out. Im jealous. Harris . Harris we will begin with the fox news alert awaiting the start of the White House Press Briefing Amid questions looming about Robert Muellers russia investigation and whether we are closer to a potential sit down between the special counsel and President Trump. Its being talked about. We are covering it as we go outnumbered overtime. I...

Type of information its processed through the leadership of the respective house chamber. senate chamber. then disseminated down to the individual member who is targeted. so we have taken that action in place but im not in a position now to release names. >> harris: will you support the legislation imposing sanctions on russia now that you say they interfered? >> we already had a lot of sanctions in place and i support any efforts that we can collectively put together to send a signal to russia ...

>> will the government shutdown on the 1? >> in 2017, designated infrastructure critical, the critical sub sector. we priority efforts. any state with a vulnerability assessment, scans, et cetera, well prioritize in the budget. >> one last question. >> for the director and the general. can you unpack what you said. there was a question for the director and for the general. do you give us a better sense of who specifically is targeted? we know two senators said they were targeted by hacks. or peo...

But it is important to understand this is not just an election cycle threat. our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and a regular basis, whether its election season or not. there is a clear distinction between on the one hand activities that threaten the security and integrity of the election systems. and on the other hand the broader threat of influencer operations designed to manipulate and influence our voters and their opinions. with our partners we are trying to...

Continues to be concerned about the threats of the upcoming u.s. elections. both the midterms and the presidential election of 2020. in regard to russian involvement in the mid-term elections we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. these efforts are not exclusive to this election. or future elections. but they certainly cover issues relevant to the election. we also know the russians try to hack in to and steal information from c...

Those things from the white house? >> i can assure the american people the men and the women of the f.b.i. starting from the director on down will follow our oath and do our jobs. >> i have a question for director coats. director coats, how would you characterize the current russian efforts to medle in the 2018 election relative to 2016? is it more intense? do you see the efforts focused on a particular party? in general is the pace of the operations in any way relative to 2014, 2012? or more in...

Categories? and how should americans process that where we go to the polls in a few months? should people be confident when they pull the lever they are secure? >> i think we have said this fairly consistently in the context of 2018, we are not yet seeing the same kind of efforts to specifically target election infrastructure, you know, voter registration data bases in particular. we are seeing malign information, the information warfare we talked about. that is a 24/7, 365 days a year phenomeno...

Them. we will address that through comments of the heads of the operating agencies. i might also say by way of introduction that many federal government actions to protect the elections in the united states such as those implemented by the intelligence community or the law enforcement agency are necessarily sensitive. and highly classified. we do not wish to make the efforts of thed a vertaries easier -- efforts of the adversaries any easier. we have offered to do before and continue to offer br...

Monitor and warn of any such efforts. i am committed to making sure that the intelligence community is working together in integrating it across organizations and missions and seeking greater transparency with the public. the odni instituted a broad spectrum of actions covering collection, analysis, reporting, education and partnership. designed to provide threat assessment to federal, state, local officials and to the private sector when necessary. for example, my office leads the interagency w...

Work being done to protect integry till of the elections. efforts are underway to provide cyber security assistance to state and local authorities and the actions to investigate, prosecute and hold accountable those who illegally attempt to interfere in the political and the electoral process. to edress the matters furthers i want the welcome national intelligence daniel coats, christopher wray, secretary of state of the homeland security kirstjen nielsen. director of the national security agenc...