this is our process, our sovereign responsibility, we re not interested in the federal takeover. doesn t the federal government have an interest in the integrity of these elections? i think the american public, the nation has an interest in the integrity of the election and i think you federally elected officials have an interest in the integrity of the elections that result in you sitting here, yes. but i think that we need to continue now that the campaign is over, maybe in odd years, if we could find a way to raise awareness when the temperature is down, maybe through grants encourage best practices at the state level and maybe encourage a uniform set of minimum standards for cyber security when it comes to state election systems and voter registration data bases. thank you. your time has expired. five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, thank you for
judge jeanine: let s talk about the fact we have involved in other country s elections. how would we do that? it s a form covert action. you have to do it pursuant to authority from the president of the united states.rt could do it in a million ways. you could pay people, you could hack data bases. you couldld threaten action if people don t do what we want them to. there is an endless series of techniquesop we could use. judge jeanine: let me posit a hypothetical question about russia undermining our democracy. if you are running large-scale covert ops would you say sitting opposite a russian ambassador in open daylight or emails going
so we re not going to state he or she, but we ve been able to ascertain that the individual was not, or did not have a previous history with the united states secret service, and at least so far, and danny coulson, said they ran him through data bases and so far the secret service tells us there has not been a criminal history found for the individual who scaled the fence last night. back to the story as news warrants. and then this, something the cia is dealing with this weekend. the wikileaks document dump that has rocked the agency. what julian assange has done has some experts and some in the government on high alert. we ll tell you why. and a judge weighing in on the president s revised travel plan. what it means for the airport and for your security at home coming up.
getting the attention it has. that s right. let me come back to that. ice is saying that your client is a self-professed gang member, that s ice, which is why they say he was detained. what is your side of the story. that doesn t make any sense does it? there s no criminal record attached to daniel, ice has access to every criminal data base, every gang data base in the universe. we have checked those data bases daniel is not part of those data bases, equally even more significantly he s been authorized twice to be a daca beneficiary, that s not a simple process, that s a process by which the individual gives up everything in his or her life, becomes an open book to the federal government, the department of homeland security in particular. a specific part of that criteria is do you have any criminal record, criminal attachments or
referred to the u.s. for resettlement. what happens then? how can you vet somebody when you don t know anything about them? how do you vet them? you can t. we know a lot about them. they are subject to the highest level of scrutiny, the security check they have to go through is the highest category of any traveler to the united states. that means background checks by the state department, the fbi, the department of homeland security and the national counterterrorism center looking for security risks and outstanding criminal violations. then they do extensive inperson interviews and they are fingerprinted to be checked against multiple data bases. it s going to be very hard to come in. it s going to be very, very hard. are you watching? it is not easy to come in even after they have been investigated by the five different government agencies. they have to go through medical screenings, cultural orientation class zs and more security