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Those things from the white house? >> i can assure the american people the men and the women of the f.b.i. starting from the director on down will follow our oath and do our jobs. >> i have a question for director coats. director coats, how would you characterize the current russian efforts to medle in the 2018 election relative to 2016? is it more intense? do you see the efforts focused on a particular party? in general is the pace of the operations in any way relative to 2014, 2012? or more intense? >> relative to what we have seen for the mid-term elections it's not the robust campaign we a...

Categories? and how should americans process that where we go to the polls in a few months? should people be confident when they pull the lever they are secure? >> i think we have said this fairly consistently in the context of 2018, we are not yet seeing the same kind of efforts to specifically target election infrastructure, you know, voter registration data bases in particular. we are seeing malign information, the information warfare we talked about. that is a 24/7, 365 days a year phenomenon that doesn't turn necessarily on whether or not we are in the middle of an election season or not....

Them. we will address that through comments of the heads of the operating agencies. i might also say by way of introduction that many federal government actions to protect the elections in the united states such as those implemented by the intelligence community or the law enforcement agency are necessarily sensitive. and highly classified. we do not wish to make the efforts of thed a vertaries easier -- efforts of the adversaries any easier. we have offered to do before and continue to offer briefing to members of congress in secure facilities. what i'd like to do is turn the briefing over to...

Monitor and warn of any such efforts. i am committed to making sure that the intelligence community is working together in integrating it across organizations and missions and seeking greater transparency with the public. the odni instituted a broad spectrum of actions covering collection, analysis, reporting, education and partnership. designed to provide threat assessment to federal, state, local officials and to the private sector when necessary. for example, my office leads the interagency working group now meeting weekly as a push toward november. with department of justice, f.b.i., depar...

Work being done to protect integry till of the elections. efforts are underway to provide cyber security assistance to state and local authorities and the actions to investigate, prosecute and hold accountable those who illegally attempt to interfere in the political and the electoral process. to edress the matters furthers i want the welcome national intelligence daniel coats, christopher wray, secretary of state of the homeland security kirstjen nielsen. director of the national security agency, and the national security adviser ambassador john bolton to make comments and take questions on t...