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Kated opera kated operators in the world. >> reporter: the trump administration come under fire for not announcing a coordinated plan to thwart cyber threats. >> i think it's an embarrassment that this white house did not make election security a top priority and not put the kind of attention and focus on it that we need. >> reporter: in may, the cyber coordinator role on the council was eliminated as officials sound the alarm comparing the current state to the months before the 9/11 attacks. >> i'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red. again. the day the digital infrastructure that...

Details how bad actors operate. they target voting infrastructure like voting machines. they steal and weaponize voter data. help politicians with compromising email to damaging political opponents. spread false information and rely on unlawful lobbiying efforts. same hackers who went after the clinton emails remain active. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and we saw metadata that suggests that those phishing attacks were being directed three candidates all standing for election in midterm elections....

Here at aspen yesterday and he said that he felt he had a public duty to be up front with the american people and traitor about wha -- transparent to the american people. americans know. they can be educated and armed in order to understand what information is really credible. >> public attribution foreign influence campaigns to help encounter and mitigate a harm caused by foreign sponsored misinformation. when people are aware of the true sponsor they can make better informed decisions. >> the department of justice report really has five elements or prompts that look at this issue of foreign ...

Credible. >> public attribution, foreign influence campaigns can help mitigate the harm caused by foreign sponsor misinformation. when team are aware of the sponsor, they can make better decisions. >> the newly-released justice department report lays out the key elements of the foreign systems that are targeting the u.s. they include attacking voting infrastructure so voting machines and the software associated with voting, also helping politicians damage their opponents think of hacking the dnc and the clinton e-mail campaigns spreading false information and unlawful efforts on behalf of thei...

>> so, i'll just say we once had a law in this country called the help america vote act, haba. funding for voting infrastructure to the states. we the. all right. thank you so much for spending so money time with us. we are grateful. when we come back, is the republican party effectively dead? one of its most recent leaders seems to suggest it is. at least for now.