ongoing threats. he asked the officials standing next to me to brief the american people on the work being done to protect the integrity of our elections. efforts are under way to provide cybersecurity assistance to state and local authorities and actions to investigate, prosecute, and hold accountable those who illegally attempt to interfere in our political and electoral process. to address these matters further, i want to welcome director of national intelligence dan coats, fbi director christopher wray, director of the national security agency, general paul, and national security adviser ambassador john bolton to make some comments and take questions on this topic. as you all know, we've addressed what occurred during the 2016 election numerous times and rather extensively. the purpose of today's briefing is about what we are doing now and in the future to protect the integrity of our elections moving forward, and we ask you stay on that topic. in order to help this run smoothly, we'd also ask you