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Interfering in our politics on social media. look, the white house just simply has not made russia pay a price for this behavior and until that happens, they are going to continue to do it. >> what do they say about the fact there is no national security adviser for national security at the nsc? a lot hasn't been done here. how do they explain that? >> they don't explain it, david. they are not a talkative bunch, this white house, on substantiative policy issues. they've eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator, also fired tom bossert, the deputy national security adviser for homeland security...

Good position to make sure that nobody else would click on something like this? >> absolutely not, katy. you can't defend against phishing. somebody is always going to click on a bad link. dan coats gave a remarkable speech where he said the system is blinking red. we are not seeing the kind of cyberintrusions massively against election systems that we saw in 2016, but we are a keystroke away from that. it's easy for the russians to do that. it's very hard to defend against it. that's why you need a geopolitical strategy. let me make sure our viewers understand what david just said. the trump ...

It's not one of their greater moments. there was a lot of debate about how to handle this, and they were people on the white house staff, michael daniel, the white house cybersecurity coordinator, and the chief russia specialist on the national security council, you have to strike back in real-time. they come back with these really creative proposals, cyber attacks and russian news sites dumping information, exposing information about putin's corruption, secret bank accounts in latvia, and the top policymakers in the white house were reluctant to go there. they were afraid of an excavation. >>...

White house, told about the russian meddling in the investigation, and, you know, a lot of it does not make the obama white house, you know, it's not one of their greater moments. there was a lot of debate about how to handle this, and they were people on the white house staff, michael daniel, the white house cybersecurity coordinator, and the chief russia specialist on the national security council, you have to strike back in real-time. they come back with these really creative proposals, cyber attacks and russian news sites dumping information, exposing information about putin's corruption, ...

If compromised, a new card with new numbers could easily replace it. another option is new technology called block chain, a network of many computers where data is transmitted and stored simultaneously and securely, each fact checking the other with algorithms that cannot be controlled by any one device nor compromised at any one point of failure. the white house is now just beginning the process of moving towards a new social security numbering system that is safer. the administration cybersecurity coordinator is asking all federal agencies to offer input on replacing the present system. in w...