bases from homeland security and other places. that s kind of like the cross check program that secretary of state kansas secretary of state has been running which has been proven to have a bis proportionate influence. but never threat disproportionately. because of the kinds of names that are likely to show up in the database. so everything about this commission from the president s statements about it, the formation of it, the membership, the plans for the commission, all of it leads to one conclusion that this is created to do the work that the piecemeal cases that we have been winning in federal court by the way on voter suppression and voter i.d., it s designed to take all of that piecemeal work and to combine it and put it together into one national platform that voter suppressers can draw on to continue their efforts through voter purges and other means. this is a reconfiguration of what happened during the bush
mode. itis not to the level of the president, so there s not integration with the intelligence communities. solely looking at physical threats against the protectee. that was the posture of terms during that meeting. then, what do you do what do you make of then the agencies response, this statement that they ended up. i applaud them for their immediate response. they are correcting a narrative that was false. you know, the secret service does not vet, at that time, does not vet against, you know, against intelligence community data bases. that was just wrong. do you think folks knew, your friend that is still work there would be entering a very public conversation here? no. they don t want to be in the public. the secret service has a responsibility to protect the president and the first lady and the first family. they don t want to be a part of a political narrative. there was a lot of conversation. i remember we talked about
that needs to be done. was this a dangal? were there other dangales being made by the russians? and do you see these emails or the meeting as a possible trial balloon to gauge interests from the trump campaign? jim and i were talking about how it struck us how explicit the email was laying out this is a russian government effort to support the trump campaign. what is your sense on this? i think as you step back and take a look at the wide range of what russia was up to in the lead up to this, we know, we ve already established firmly that they had a propaganda campaign going on, an influence operation going on. we know they were hacking into dnc and other data bases and part of this overall covert measures plan that the russian intelligence services put together was also probing to find out whether or not there was anybody in the trump team,
bloomberg reports that voter registration in 39 states was affected. election data bases were breached but the attack didn t affect the outcome of the election. there are now at least five different investigations under way into this whole thing which spreads way beyond the cyberattack. the fbi investigation is being run by special counsel, former head of the fbi, robert mueller. it s looking into russia s meddling, potential ties between trump associates and russian officials and reportedly whether president trump obstructed justice in the investigation although his lawyer denies that. the senate, by the way, and the house each have two investigations. house intelligence committee, senate intelligence committee, senate judiciary committee and house oversight and government reform committee. there are four separate congressional investigations into this. now, making things even more tense, the russians say that they are losing patience with the u.s. plan to turn over two russian embass
be going. if this commission wants to be serious about addressing important election relate issues, it should be addressing the issue of russia and the question of its interference in the 2016 general election, whether it actually successfully hacked any of our data bases and what it can do to protect that moving forward. we ll see if the president brings that up on friday. thank you very much. coming up, time is running out. cutter is staring down a deadline hours away to meet a list of demands from other states, mainly saudi arabia. it must meet these demands to lift the boycott of the tiny country. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,. isn t it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it s time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it s a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin