Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Summit was less than an hour and didnt have any follow through and that match is reporting the Trump Administration has no central policy for Election Security and no one is in charge. While were running through the facts, note that another appointee flagged that they dont have a key person minding the store in Cyber Security because the Trump Administration eliminated the job of Cyber Security coordinator. So thats a lot of facts. That is the current policy baseline. Experts noting the trump approach looks more like cyber lackadaisical than cyber secure. That is the framework for what happened today. A list of intelligence vips, marching into the White House Briefing room. And you can see it there. They were rolling deep. You see the leaders of intel announcing that contrary to what their boss says, the recent reports in the news of russian midterm meddling are true. That russian interference and u. S. Politics continu
baselines, follow me, i don t want to get to in the weeds benjamin: it s friday now. seriously though, they sometimes will put in what they call a policy baseline on top of what congress is asking them to score, their judgment about what the longer effects will be from various programs, it is a judgment call and quite useful, you will see that, they mention for trillion and i think that s a reasonable number. the original idea that house budget committee mark was 4.3 trillion, but if you scored a properly as my own mcginnis and some of the outside budget groups, it s about 5.5 trillion, because of this gimmick, this clever, but not really clever, shortening of the time frame. so they sunset it. but the idea is wink link, nod
summit was less than an hour and didn t have any follow through and that match is reporting the trump administration has no central policy for election security and no one is in charge. while we re running through the facts, note that another appointee flagged that they don t have a key person minding the store in cyber security because the trump administration eliminated the job of cyber security coordinator. so that s a lot of facts. that is the current policy baseline. experts noting the trump approach looks more like cyber lackadaisical than cyber secure. that is the framework for what happened today. a list of intelligence vips, marching into the white house briefing room. and you can see it there. they were rolling deep. you see the leaders of intel announcing that contrary to what their boss says, the recent reports in the news of russian mid-term meddling are true. that russian interference and u.s. politics continues right
can pass it in the next day or two and avert the first default on our national debt in history. i am worried about the size of defense cuts that may be contemplated, but that doesn t mean i m therefore rejecting the agreement. i m just worried. this is a head scratcher. stocks take a tumble after the debt relief rally that happened earlier this morning. the dow surged more than 120 points, but a weak manufacturing report, just sanction the market. stocks posting the worst weekly performance in more than a year in a debt stalemate last week. the dow is at 12:07. down 70 points. new reports of gunfire after what s described as a nationwide offensive against government protesters. sunday s clash killed more than 70 people in that country and at least 50 of them in the city. security forces were responding to armed groups who terrorized citizens by firing from the roof tops of buildings. that s according to government there. egyptian security forces shut down protests in ca