Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180115:01:29:00
Believe russians are trying to meddle and maybe others as well. two decades. so that spans multiple administrations. why is it so hard to thwart their efforts to undermine american institutions. >> one of the issues is, you know, elections are controlled by the states. and they're not controlled by the federal government per se. and so, in protecting our electoral system, you've got to work with the 50 secretaries of state across the country. and so just institutionally it's difficult, but it's more difficult if the extent of the meddling is not made public, if it's not known, if our election ...