Will leave this program to go live to a conversation with florida senator marco rubio. Good morning. Im bob costa, National Political reporter here at the Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post live in another special any for the Texas Tribune festival. Today my guess is senator marco rubio, republican of florida. Hes been summit ive been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the use senate back in 2010. Senator rubio, thanks thanks for being your. Good morning. Thanks for having me. We are 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that seat what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . I think first we have to break up foreign interference into two categories. One is meddling and the actual architecture and mechanics of election. And then the other is sort of af the message, sort of the psychological operations and a war for design to divide against each othe
Im bob costa, National Political reporter at the Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post live and another special interview for the Texas Tribune festival. Today its senator marco rubio, hes been someone ive been covering for over a decade as he first ran for the u. S. Senate in 2010. Thank you for beinghere. Thank you for having me. Were 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that see what is the biggest to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . We have to bring up foreign interference into two categories, one is meddlingin the architecture and the mechanics of the election and the other is sort of the messaging. The psychological operations and the design to get us divided against each other and let me talk about the second one or a moment. Thats actually yearround and what their adversaries basically is a look at all these fractures in our society and they seek to drive. They seek official
Here. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Senator, were 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . I think first we have to break up foreign interference into two categories. One is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election. And then the other is sort of the messaging, sort of the psychological operations and warfare design to get us the divide against each other. Let me talk about the second one for a moment, in terms of putting out messages and the like, thats year around. What their adversaries do is look at all the preexisting fractures in our society and seek to push on that. On social media, what youre seeing is that theyre using theyll create a website somewhere. They may even hire americans to write on that website and put that out there as real news content. So, thats an ongoing challenge. And th
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