we have a stronger and better position to tackle inflation than almost any other country around the world. what juneteenth does it channels a way for america to talk about slavery and to talk about it without and tim dags and anguish to honor slaves who have never been honored. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. happy father s day to all the dads out there. and we begin tonight with new cnn reporting. u.s. intel is warning of another potential russian plot to interfere with the 2022 midterms. homeland and national security officials say they are worried kremlin meddling like hacking into smaller and more local election authorities in this country and creating disinformation campaigns could have a significant impact on the november elections. so this is not new, isaac, the idea of meddling in the elections. we know similar campaigns were used during the 2016 election and after that as well. what has changed with the threats since then?
idea of meddling in the elections. we know similar campaigns were used during the 2016 election and after that as well. what has changed with the threats since then? it s more sophistication and the kinds of asymmetric warfare involved here and, also, more divisions the russians are able to play into, what officials i spoke to are warning of is the potential that russian hackers will go in and deliberately get caught, get caught so that they are then exposed and people say oh, the russians got into our system and that undermines faith even more. obviously we re seeing it s a huge problem right now especially among supporters of former president trump who have pushed the idea there are problems with the election integrity. wow, that is so fascinating just the change in the thinking from the russian side, right, because before they always said we had nothing to do with this, but now they actually would want it to be they would want them to be identified. look, the fact is this is a