democrat dechlic precinctses. the plan as outlined by a republican national committee staffer in michigan includes utilizing rules to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic majority polling places to connect a website in establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who can intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts. here is a clip of an rnc official in michigan making his pitch to potential recruits in october 2021. that is what we are here tonight for. to show the program that we are creating to create that safety net on the polls before election day, after election day to make sure that fraud does not happen again. i understand that we are upset with the 2020 result, but we cannot just look at the 2020 results or else the exact same thing will happen in 2022. we need volunteers on the ground on election day ahead of election day working so that that fraud does not
operations in support of ukraine, here s what it says. u.s. military hackers have conducted offensive operations in support of ukraine, the head of the u.s. cyber command has told sky news in an exclusive interview, the general explained how separate hunt forward operations were allowing the united states to search out foreign hackers and identify their tools before they were used against america. so phillip, the possibility of cyber warfare has been lurking around the ukraine conflict since the very beginning. it is not broken out in a way that s been highly publicized so far. we know stuff s going on under the radar and behind the scenes. when you talk to ukrainian officials, how aware are they of this front of the war and what s being done to try to help them by, as i said, the united states and other nato allies. this is something that we weren t aware of here and that ukraine and officials certainly haven t been talking about. what you re looking at here
feel like this should be a top priority issue. maybe he thought this would be handled over time and negotiations. but we don t have time here. we need to act now. we need to demand that these individuals responsible for this particular hack get arrested. the key gets turned over to the businesses that need to decrypt their data. biden has not called out putin publicly about this attack. but jen psaki said that biden officials are meeting to discuss ransomware. it is possible they will deliver a private warning. jeff? yeah. beyond the warnings, president biden, he warned putin that the u.s. will use cyber operation it s the kremlin doesn t reign this in. what retaliation might we see in the case of the attack. one thing military hackers can do is take down the networks used by this hacking group. there is precedent for this. u.s. cyber command took down troll farm on election day in 2018 to stop disinformation.
possibilities there. what we are being told is that the biden administration is now actively considering taking offensive action, using the military hackers cyber command to go after of this these russian criminals in russia. it invites retaliation from russia. some people would consider it an act of war, though they re going to calibrate it carefully to not hurt anybody or destroy any russian infrastructure. it s still a big deal and it s something that s under consideration. nbc s ken delanian with exclusive reporting. thank you. coming up, why a government report about ufos is raising new questions about our national security. ew questions about our national security or necessity. we can explore uncharted waters, and not only make new discoveries, but get there faster, with better outcomes. with app, cloud and anywhere workspace solutions, vmware helps companies navigate change
acknowledge that he ordered the russian military to attack american elections in 2016 and have him step onto u.s. soil is embarrassing, it s disgraceful. that meeting should not occur until the kremlin acknowledges what they did to america. according to a top microsoft executive, congressman, three candidates, three political candidates in the 2018 mid-term election campaigns, they ve already been targeted we re now told by the same russian hackers, the military hackers who attacked the democratic national committee back in 2016. what kind of message would it send if president trump were to invite putin to the white house as the russian government is still actively engaged, we re now told, in these cyber attacks against the american electoral system? so i have no problem with the u.s. having better relations with other countries. the problem is if we don t hold russia accountable for their attack on u.s. elections in 2016