demand action on gun reform. in a moment, i will talk to maria, whose organization, votes for latino, or to organized a rally. major new developments in what maybe the country s most closely watched senate race. on both sides of the ballots, but details of that are coming up. and democracy in danger. a bombshell report, secret tapes that reveal the gop plans that could help them steal the next presidential election. all of, that s plus the trial that may have single-handedly and did the me too movement. the detaining impact of the johnny depp and amber heard trial and they have had on count ability when it comes to domestic abuse. that conversation is ahead. we want to begin this hour with that breaking news. we told you about last hour. one of the largest u.s. factories for baby formula is back up and running. abbott laboratories announcing today it has restarted specialty formula production at its michigan plants, which had been shuttered since february. nbc s steve patters
performing districts. there s two things going on here. first there is voter suppression. no question. they re trying to suppress the vote in democratic districts, precincts, communities of color of color in particular, to reflect the lessons the republicans of learn from the last cycle. if you can create enough chaos to prevent certification by state election administrators, secretary of state, then you get to move the election into the hands of the politicians, and then in that case, republicans would win, should republicans control the levers that decide elections in that state. the age old voter suppression. i ve been talking about this and dealing with this for a very long time. danielle, and then you talk about the lawyers involved. each party always has a team of lawyers willing ready and able to act. we re talking about activating that s different. activating da s. yes. everything that the republican party is doing is targeted and
the u.s. it s important to use technology. there s no such thing as a cold start when it comes to a cyber attack. the hackers will routinely use surveillance on their intended tar g that s an opportunity to get out in the networks and use cognitive computing to sift through the big data and find out where the threats are so you can preempt them. i think our dhs specialists have been working very effectively with state election administrators, providing them with technology and also with training so they re as equipped as they can be to defend themselves from these attacks. they haven t stopped since 2016. they re not going to stop. it s as if we re constantly in a race to deter, defend and counsel r tear these ongoing counter these ongoing attacks. mike: what about the ransomware mess, locking up local government systems until they pay. do we have an answer on that front? the answer is, there s a lot
of answers. one of the best ways to deal with ransomware is to have a backup system so if someone wants to charge you to unlock your system, you cannot worry about it and you ve already got a backup system that has no errors in it, that is not connected to the internet. that could be one way that we seek to del woul deal with it. getting the messag mess messageh dhs has done, it s a good indication and warning for all of the state election administrators. it s all the states in our country have got to focus on this and they are, with suitable and appropriate assistance from the federal government. mike: dan hoffman, thanks for your time and analysis. laura: we want to take you back to that breaking news, reports of an active shooter in the midland, odessa, texas area. there are reports of multiple people injured, possibly as many two suspects at large in two separate vehicles. joining me now on the phone, dana coalson, former assistant director of the fbi, to talk
predetermined, and that your votes don t matter and won t be counted because somebody else has decided the way that election should go and that s just not the case. our election system is quite the opposite. it s designed to prevent and to stop and to catch that. the second thing i would say is just at a very granular level, you know, you walk into a polling place, you will see teams of election officials, ordinary citizens, working in teams of two, in most places. one republican, and one democrat processing voters, checkingim i in state that s required, over their shoulders will be another team of individuals. republicans and democrats who have been appointed by local parties and candidates to observe the election and you ve got state election administrators watching everything. and then any members of the public, so to rig an election like this, you would have to have this vast by partisan