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Are afraid. we don't have to discuss at length where these threats are coming from. i just want to have election officials and have a functioning democracy. can you provide an update on the election threats task force and talk about the kind of threats we're seeing to election officials? >> yes, senator. very much like the circumstances with respect to the school boards when the national school board association wrote us a letter advising of threats of violence and violence. earlier this year, we received communications from the national association of secretaries of state and the national ass...

0 about a conversation that i'm not -- >> i'm stunned that you can't recall that. so let's talk about afghanistan. the secretary -- undersecretary for defense policy, mr. kael says, isis-k poses a short term external threat al qaeda could launch attacks outside afghanistan within a year or two. do you agree with that? >> i agree that al qaeda has always presented and continues to present a persistent threat to the united states homeland. >> the question is what's changed? you say always. has any recent event changed the likelihood of an attack? >> i don't know. >> you don't know that we withdr...

Sir david was stabbed multiple times when he was holding a regular meeting with his constituents in a church hall in leigh—on—sea, in essex in the south east of england. the prime minister, borisjohnson, and the leader of the opposition, sir keir starmer, laid flowers together at the scene. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports from leigh—on—sea. a united front in the face of a suspected terrorist attack. the prime minister, the leader of the opposition, the speaker of the house of commons and the home secretary. four of the most senior politicians in the land at the c...

In the south east of england. the prime minister, borisjohnson, and the leader of the opposition, sir keir starmer, laid flowers together at the scene. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports from leigh—on—sea. a united front in the face of a suspected terrorist attack. the prime minister, the leader of the opposition, the speaker of the house of commons and the home secretary. four of the most senior politicians in the land at the church today where sir david amess mp was murdered. he was killed doing a job that he loved, serving his own constituents as an elected democrati...

The leader of the opposition, the speaker of the house of commons and the home secretary. four of the most senior politicians in the land at the church today where sir david amess mp was murdered. he was killed doing a job that he loved, serving his own constituents as an elected democratic member. and, of course, acts of this are absolutely wrong and we cannot let that get in the way of our functioning democracy. it was formally declared a terrorist incident late last night. early enquiries suggesting the motive was islamist extremism. the man in custody, ali harbi ali, is understood to have ...