Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. They will appear before lawmakers just, at that point, less than two months before the election again, i understand theyre going to ask some more questions, some more hearings. What is congress prepared to do to stop this, to say were do everything you possibly can to make sure there is not outside influence in our elections . Well, Lindsey Graham told me this shows we need an olive government approach. Introducing this legislation in part. Trying to get the president to joinest. He wants to see more pressure being put on russia. Were also hearing that some of these pages have been identified, and russia is an equal opportunity offender here. That our Political Leadership not to necessarily follow the rabl trail that the russians are
from the white house on this issue. Donald trump had his First Ever National security meeting the other day devoted to this subject. Didnt make any statements, didnt give any orders a
history. and people need to understand how really deeply serious the crisis is going to become. all of our opponents are watching biden fall asleep, the are watching kamala harris laughing, and their thinking to themselves, this is the executive branch leadership. this is the commander-in-chief? those are signals of weakness when seen by people as tough as vladimir putin. sean: hooton sees an opportunity, i would argue that s why he is building up troop strength on the border with ukraine. president xi doesn t care what biden has to say. and then you have to ask the question, if the compromise. a lot of business, had a lot of business dealings with both
executive branch leadership we have not seen, chris. let me get your reaction about the ads, the timing. here we are, 98 days out from the midterms. yes, in terms of the timing, what we find is usually they try and infiltrate audiences on social issues so that later they can drive them on political influence. so this is a tactic we saw in terms of both the left sort of leaning accounts and the right sort of leaning accounts back in 2016. we ve also seen mentioned, you know, there s been two different daily beast reports in the last week that have said that two different senators were targeted in terms of hacking or spear fishing or different baiting campaigns and that is if you want an influence in the election year, you target them with hacks in the year before, which was 2017. so what this shows is a very consistent pattern. even when the social media