You have been watching an extraordinary press briefing, im Brooke Baldwin, youre watching cnn. That was a true show of force right before the president begins his ten day summer vacation. You have these different federal intelligence chiefs stand he at the podium warning of russian interference both about past and upcoming u. S. Elections. To assure americans that the Trump Administration is actively confronting those Cyber Security threats. We have subsequently made the determination to make this a top priority that it doesnt happen again. Were throwing everything at it and we will have and will be discussing that here today. Relative to my discussions with the president on whatever issue it is, those i do noted go public with that. I dont think thats the right,
proper thing to do. Our focus here today is to tell the American People we acknowledge the threat. It is real. It is continuing. And were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the American People can have
try and convince special counsel robert mueller that his own investigation is a witch-hunt. so let s go to katelyn collins our senior white house correspondent to catch some of this. watching that, how extraordinary to have all of those different intel chiefs standing up. seems almost like bizarro world given what we normally hear from that podium with regard to the russian investigation and to hear director coats say russia is trying to interfere, the threat is real stunning. reporter: when the white house brings out these guests at the beginning of the briefing it almost seems as they are filibustering to avoid tough questions that they know are coming from reporters. today quite a show of force with most members of the national security council, most people who regularly attend those meetings coming out to the briefing today, each one taking time to come up to the pod wrum to speak to reporters about the threat they believe is real, is happening, saying democracy is