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Over oklahoma city and dropped leaflets out of planes over black neighborhoods right around election time. those leaflets carried a message that was essentially the 1922 version of the president's tweet. the leaflet said, quote, do not attempt to vote unless you are legally registered. those cards dropped over black neighborhoods in oklahoma in 1922. they also had a little illustration next to the text, a guy in a hood with the initials kkk written on the hood. the "washington post" a few years ago dug up the coverage from the topeka state journal at the time of that leaflet drop, the way the ...

To? i mean there is a history of this kind of intimidation and threatening behavior and threatening messaging around voting in our recent past. we saw that in 2012, in wisconsin and ohio, those threatening billboards. there is also of course a rich history of this in our distant past, plus or minus the available technology. in 1922, somebody flew biplanes over oklahoma city and dropped leaflets out of planes over black neighborhoods right around election time. those leaflets carried a message that was essentially the 1922 version of the president's tweet. the leaflet said, quote, do not attemp...

>> he espionage is happening al over all the time. yeah, they can try. evidently from what i've heard, they didn't get very far. a >> so you're not worried about russian entities, people, bots we've heard that they used to deploy during the past election being able to do more in future elections if we don't get to the bottom of it? >> well, sure you it's concerning, but all dibd of espionage and operations are concerning, but we have to be manned up enough to fight it back. >> how do you fight back -- >> well, i think that we have pretty strong cyber capabilities. and i think that there are ma...

Uncertainty of it all. there was a leaflet drop over mosul last night that was trying to give people advice on how to keep themselves safe. telling them to put out white flags and also to tape up their windows. disconnect gas canisters, remove them from their homes, to not get close to explosion sites. and to try to stay indoors and keep wet rags next to them. it's such an unspeakably difficult time right now for the population. on the one hand, yes, they do want isis rule to end, but on the other hand, all they can do is hope they survive the battle. >> a long battle ahead, no question. arwa,...

Part of the u.s. plan is to hopefully in their view get as much intel to strengthen the targeting ability. so if you have a u.s. special forces raid and they are able to control some of the contents of a location, computers and address books and, you know, you can get a sense of what i'm talking about there, how can that then be exploited for future use? one of the other facts we were told is that u.s. airplanes had been coming back about 70% of the time with their ordnance still on the plane, meaning there was a sortie run but no target identified. we're told that dropped to 35%. meaning grea...