i think that means he is going to be looking for what tools does he have to apply pressure to those nations that are executing the sanctions against him, and how can he bleed off some of this increasing domestic pressure. the cyber element, and the disinformation piece becomes very attractive. in the coming days and weeks you re going to see a more aggressive use of cyber coming out of russia. what is your reaction to his announcing that he s putting his military command, his nuclear deterrent forces on high alert. do you think he s bluffing? always concerned because that is a significant set of capabilities that you would hope never are used. i think you saw the reaction from the united states and others. we re trying to be very measured here. just because you choose to potentially escalate in the nuclear dimension, we will not go down that route. let s hope that he is trying to use this as a means of signaling to the west, look, i have a whole broader set of capabilities, some of
it was supposed to be a comedy. and it didn t feel like a comedy. i did not know that fact, chuck. thanks for telling me that. i do worry about it a lot. i worry especially, you know, the disinformation piece, you know, that can be handled. companies out here are trying to work with it. i support the legislation that would provide more information about that. i don t see it going forward. the thing i really worry about is something on election day, even some fragment, 100, 1,000 voters in which is that show up, their names aren t on the list and you and i and everybody focuses on that. in a close election, that could be become scandalous. that could become threatening to our democracy, especially if president trump is not winning. then he can say well, hey, i told you it was going to be falsified. now it has. then we re really in a constitutional crisis. this is serious stuff. because i have your national security brain on the show, it was a topic i quickly brought up