weekend after a warning russian operators could be hatching plan to undermine american elections. moscow tactics like mounting disinformation campaigns and hacking into small local election systems could disrupt the midterms this fall. cnn following the new warnings. it s a more sophistication. and the kinds of war fair that are involved here. and more divisions the russians are able to ply into. what officials i spoke to are warning is the potential that russian hackers will go in and deliberately get caught. so they are then exposed and people say the russians got in and that undermines faith in the elections en more. obviously that s a huge problem right now. especially among supporters of former president trump. who have pushed the idea that there are problems with the election integrity. wow. that s so fascinating the change in the thinking from the russians side. before, they always did the we had nothing to do with it. now they want it to be identified. and look, t
results of the election? are any of these things possible? they re all possible. but election security has gotten much higher over the last couple years. russians are playing into the intelligence officials think this feeling that is around that there are problems. you have to think about the elections workers. many of them volunteers. z civil servants. already under siege since 2020 election. now dealing with this. you have the atmosphere of distrust in elections coupled with the sheer number of local elections. u.s. officials are saying, there s no way to truly be ready for an attack. what if anything are they doing to counter act this? there are efforts going onto try to share information with local election officials. these are best practices. there s only so much that can be done. they are there s a lot of push among the officials that i spoke to to actually get out ahead