Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Influence american voters, including a Covert Campaign to spread Divisive Political messages. That has raised questions about what the government is doing to stop them. As the Washington Post reports lawmakers and independent analysts say that Voting Systems are more secure against hackers thanks to action at the federal and state levels and that the russians have not targeted those systems to the degree they did in 2016, but russian efforts to manipulate u. S. Voters through misleading social media postings are likely to have grown nor sophisticated and harder to detect. There is not a sufficiently strong Government Strategy to combat Information Warfare against the u. S. Outside experts say. Joining me now nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house, Nbc National Security and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post, phil rucker, Nation
so in terms of the legal nitty-gritty of this and how it all plays out, that s still very much to be determined. but i can tell you that a number of constitutional scholars that i spoke to said that this would stand alone as one of the most obvious violations of article 2 looking throughout history. health care. going to be one of the number one issues in the midterm elections. that s what voters say. they are really concerned about health care. if you go to certain states, you don t wall it obamacacall it ob say it s a wonderful thing. good or bad for the president to be undermining this law? he campaigned on it. but if he is trying to keep ind pent voters? all we know about obamacare and the electorate is that it s a disaster when the electorate is asked to vote or judge it, okay? because of the name? it s not the name. i mean, it may be the name. it may be the policy. it may be the sense that obamacare was an effort to