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Different states have different election equipment, were working on a bill on this. how important is that to protect the integrity of our election? >> it's quite important. speaking now as a private citizen, not in my former capacity, i do think our election apparatus should be considered critical infrastructure and should have the protections that are attendant to that. a lot of states pushed back when jeh johnson, secretary of homeland security, engaged with state election officials about having that designation and having the federal government interfere. in their election process, but as a...

We have different states with different election equipment, we're working on a bill on this, how important is to it frequent integrity of our election? >> it is quite important. and speaking now as a private citizen, not my former capacity, i do think that our election apparatus should be considered critical infrastructure and should have the protections that are attended to that. a lot of the states pushed back when jay johnson engaged with officials about having that designation and having the federal government interfere in the election process. but as a citizen, i would be concerned with d...

On best practices as an advisory on how to secure election apparatus at the state and local level. >> very good. do you think we are doing a good enough job now, back to the propaganda issue, educating our citizens about this? >> no, we are not. the other thing we don't do is the counter messaging. >> how would you suggest we improve it? ago i would be, i have been an advocate for a usia on steroids. i felt that way in terms of countering the message from isis, who are very sophisticated at conveying messages and proselytizing and recruiting people. our counter message is too fragmented, and m...

That democrats have really not had the courage to take on. >> he's going with a really big hand. just 17% of republicans do. but, really, given these numbers, joe, he can go around some of these far right wingers. he has enough support without caving into them. >> don't forget this, and they eluded to it today, that election apparatus, which he now doesn't have to use to get elected because he'll never run for public office, again, i assume. but he can now use it for public opinion. i know what you're going to be doing tomorrow on your radio show and that is we're going to be using our apparat...