A look at the days top news and headlines. The nation outline the Trump Interference in upcoming mid terms voicing concerns about threats and saying our democracy is in the crosshairs. Election infrastructure is not a destination. It requires aggressive and ongoing vigilance. Everyone must play their role to ensure that every vote is counted. Dana unprecedented briefing from all of those intelligence officials at the highest level coming to the briefing room, making a show of United Support and coordination at the highest levels of our government with Sarah Sanders explaining that the goal of this is to protect the 2018 elections, the 2020 elections and those in the future. They have their work cut out for them. We are less than 100 days away from the 2018 election. And joining me now is chief White House Correspondent john roberts live with more. Im just going to turn it over to you, john there was a lot there. I have a couple of questions that i want to talk about aside from the elec
sides in both parties. they don t necessarily hold any administration to account necessarily. they do forward a narrative that helps with, you know, making the case against whether or not a president is conducting himself inappropriately in office or one of the agencies is doing something inappropriate as the as in, you know, eric holder being, you know, brought before congress and ultimately, you know, censured and held in contempt. but to this day, do you think very many americans even know that or care about that? it helps drive a narrative but it doesn t necessarily settle the case. i think they ve got the media, they ve got the mueller investigation ongoing. this is just another arrow in their quiver that they will continue to attack the president. if they overreach, they will not succeed as republicans did against clinton. they failed ultimately. anita: i m sure you have a different take on this and
meddling. let s start there. when did you find out that this press conference was going to be held? do you have any ideas of what prompted them to do it today? we found out when they walked out. and i think it is probably an attempt by this white house to try to give the press more access to the people who were involved in this. and with the mueller investigation ongoing, with a lot of charges about russian meddling in the election, with the fallout from the helsinki summit still out there, i think the white house wanted to get out the principles and it was a real high powered group of people here. director of national intelligence. director of the fbi. homeland security and director of the national security agency. i think it was an attempt to explain to the american people what the white house is doing to ensure the integrity of the 2018 election. what i found interesting, this was an extraordinary press briefing today from a number of different points. but what i thought was very