government, but it s still a concern. do you stand ready for any potential cyberattack? we hope so. that team is very vigilant. and, again, many cybersecurity teams think they re secure until they re attacked or until they re penetrated. but it s certainly a very high priority for us here at the senate sergeant at arms. and our thanks to the senate sergeant of arms karen gibson for sitting down with us. well, energy secretary jennifer granholm is echoing that same sentiment about cybersecurity. she warns that even the u.s. power grid is vulnerable to a cyberattack. and she talked with cnn s jake tapper earlier today. do you think that adversaries of the united states have the capability right now to shut down the power grid? uh, yeah, they do. i mean, i think that there are very malign actors who are trying even as we speak, there are thousands of attacks on all
bet you didn t even know one of those existed. it warned the administration that if the office tasked with protecting white house computers doesn t change direction, it is, quote, posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again. i am joined now by the reporter who broke this story alexi. what s the gain here in the white house not being the most fortified computer system in the country? that s what a lot of cybersecurity officials, current and former officials are asking themselves as they are seeing these mass departures from these cybersecurity teams across the board sort of happening and that have been happening for at least a year now but especially in the last few months. the interesting thing that i am hearing from the sources that i am talking to is that they re afraid that the network, as you just mentioned, are going to be severely compromised, especially heading into the 2020 election year. we have seen the ways in which russia interfered in our election in 201