games. two small american cities are sent into lockdown. the only information coming from officials was basically, don t go outside. once a lunatic like this has carried out an attack like this, is it a safe bet there will be another and another and another? and the creativity will be that much more. because essentially, they re just, once you harden one thing, right? they re going to go to the softer thing. in this case, it s people traveling on a saturday during the long weekend. and the challenge from the law enforcement perspective, let s say he walks into a walmart, someone walks into a walmart or a big institution. normally, they would have communication protocols in place. they would have active shooter protocols in place. you can notify people what s going on. if you are in a car, how are you going to know that the car coming behind you is actually someone who s armed.
walmart or a big institution. well, normally they would have communication protocols in place. they would have active shooter protocols in place. you can notify people what s going on. if you re in a car, how are you going to know that the car coming behind you is actually someone who s armed? so your only choice as a law enforcement someone trying to protect the public is everyone off the roads. that s just not sustainable, honestly, as an open country. here s part of a statement from the governor of texas, greg abbott. i thank the first responders who have acted swiftly and admirably under pressure and i want to remind all texans that we will not allow the lone star state to be overrun by hatred and violence and we will unite as texans always do to respond to this tragedy. well, here is one response from the great state of texas. on monday a raft of new laws is coming into effect, making it easier to obtain or carry a firearm. or as the national rifle association noted back i
if there s a way to reconstruct an election on the back end, using those as well. redundant systems with regard to voter registration. you know, we have the provisional balloting requirement across the country in federal elections. even if, say, on the off chance a voter registration system were to be tampered with, we can offer a provisional ballot to voters to make sure that they get that chance to cast a ballot even if their name doesn t appear on a list. do you have does it matter what the federal government says about tampering in elections? we re all very worried about what president trump has to say about this. do you need to coordinate with the federal government on these matters? we absolutely do. my fellow secretaries of state and chief election officials from around the country have been doing that for the last year, meeting very closely, particularly with the homeland security. the fbi, we have been putting communication protocols into place, availing ourselves of the
to share? you re right. as a matter of fact, there have been discussions underway that iran wants to create their own national internet called the halal or second internet where they would effectively own all of the traffic coming in and out of the country and be able to monitor all those communications. the good news is and we talk about this in our book we actually have tools that nobody is completely anonymous but help put some layers around whether somebody is undercover in the military, intelligence or law enforcement or these dissidents to help protect them. obviously the concern is if iran builds its own internet the communication protocols used today to try and let their voices be heard are going to have to change and so that is one concern. could they effectively cut the people of iran from the outside world. shannon: how does the u.s., how do our own agencies keep up with these threats and the fact that technology morphs so quickly when we are trying to make sure that the