biden and also elizabeth warren. so we re going to bring you more on that. stay tuned for that. and then there s this. after nine hours of closed-door testimony today cnn is learning that kurt volker, kurt volker is the former special envoy for ukraine, the one who abruptly quit last week. he says that he learned ukraine s leaders leaned on them to stay out of u.s. politics after that infamous phone call. he said stay out of u.s. politics after that call. a warning they apparently didn t heed. volker also saying ukraine s government had a lot of questions about why american military aid was being held up and he didn t have any good answers for it. he also said today that ukraine was upset about why a meeting with the president was put on hold. i know that s a lot. we ll get to it. there s more, though, on what volker told congress. the washington post is reporting that he says that he warned rudy giuliani that he shouldn t trust the information that he was getting from
threats are out there for them to face. and of course, this is so important, because a campaign, especially when we have so many of them, they are the ultimate startup, come in and extremely vulnerable and giving them basic tip, i.t. help as well, to know what kind of practices are best used to avoid these kind of attacks. let s talk also about the preparedness of the dnc here in general, also intelligence offices, and are they better prepared for the 2020 election versus 2016? well, there s so much more that they know about the threats that are out there than what was known four years ago. i think just the general awareness of campaign staff itself is so important. but we will also learned, as we talked to these officials that, the threat continues to evolve. last campaign, we were talking primarily about the kind of phishing tactics trying to hack into your accounts and now we learned that campaigns are being warned about things like voice manipulation, deep fakes, learning about
to lie about that. stating instead that the federal government was making this declaration of an emergency in north carolina at theequest of, not the democratic governor there, but instead at the request of one of the state s republican u.s. senators who happens to be up for reelection next year. the white house saying that that republican senator is the one who requested the emergency declaration from the federal government, and so that s why it was granted. i mean, i guess they re hoping that lie will help that republican senator back home in north carolina that will help him get reelected. but it is a lie and, you know, it means they re lying about a federally declared emergency. if you ll lie about that one of the adages about character is you shouldn t trust a person who shows no come puncompunction ab
anything unfriendly towards the north koreans and we will see continuation of american policy. i don t think that s a good thing but nonetheless, i think that we will have some very friendly words from president trump. heather: should we trust north korea? well, absolutely not and we shouldn t trust south korea either. just a day or so ago, moon, special adviser to south korean president, look, the north koreans should be trusted to dismantle arsenal without international inspectors, well, i think that that s just ludicrous but that s what the south koreans want. heather: so how do we handle that in terms of south korea, we can bring some of that in terms of petroleum product that is were sent to north korea, if you take a look at numbers, 2018, there it is. yeah, what we should be doing
with the united states. and conflict with american intelligence. and the idea that he may actually have you know, some argument that can persuade the american president that he shouldn t trust his own intelligence is very attractive to putin. can i get your reaction to the report? that the president had a private discussion with vladimir putin at the g 20. no aids or translater present at the meeting. does that give the russians an upper hand in our dealings? i m skeptical. you have no evidence of what the actual conversation was. all the indications we have had from reports from testimony from u.s. officials is that there were no promises made or representation or agreements. certainly nothing that we have seen and forced in u.s. policy. that anyone in the administration has a problem with. the idea of private exchanges,