doubtful any kind of online activity could be done without his approval. the russian cyber attack. 2016. really three elements to it. the first was to penetrate the democratic party servers. and the e-mail top official the clinton campaign. the other was to get into state elections systems. to their data base. and the third element of the this was to inflame or create divisions within the american political culture. with twitter and youtube. and probably most of all facebook creating fake pages and fake tweets. putin s goal according to u.s. intelligence agencies was to hurt hillary clinton. help trump. and provoke conflict without leaving any fingerprints.
personally. because of the united states. sanctions and clinton. the russian cyber attack. 2016. really three elements to it. the first was to penetrate the democratic party servers. and the e-mail top official the clinton campaign. the other was to get into state elections systems. to their data base. and the third element of the this was to inflame or create divisions within the american political culture. with twitters and you tube. and probably most of all facebook creating fake pages and fake tweets. putin goal according to u.s. intelligence agencies was to hurt hillary clinton. help trump. and provoke conflict without leaving any fingerprints.
continues to suggest. it was directed by vladimir putin, something that the president still heretofore has not acknowledged. third, it was designed to help donald trump. and that s also something the white house and the senior officials won t exactly say directly. we need to be clear. those three things are facts. if we don t accept those as facts, we re simply not going to be prepared when they try to hit us again. and kristen welker, when we talk about the malign influence and the propaganda effects, what i ve been told from talking to people here, it s not that we have clear evidence that they are hacking into state elections systems, but there is plenty of evidence that the russians are again trying through social media to set americans against each other, taking both sides on controversial issues like police against black minorities, black lives matter, things that they did very effectively in 2016, forging or fomenting, i should
putin to distract and to enable him to continue an intelligence operation against the united states that s been ongoing for well over a couple of years now. heather? you know, there s been so much republican outrage. and yet, there s been a lot of words and not a lot of action. and i think now it s really important to really press them to do something. they actually have a number of constitutional powers. chuck schumer put out a tweet of a bunch of different things that cub done. i have four other ideas of what republicans could do. they could pass legislation to demand that donald trump do what every president since watergate has done which is release his tax returns so we know what the connections are financially. he could put this country on war footing for exactly the same reason we just mentioned in that we know that they are eyeing our state elections systems for 2018. republicans could actually say that we have to slow down this conversation about kavanaugh who
sophisticated, conscious deliberate persistent comprehensive strategy to undermine our democracy. i m sort of in the process, after working this for the better part of a year, putting the dots together. when you have the dnc hacking, you have the efforts to get into 21 different state elections systems, you ve got the misinformation on facebook, all of these things together come as a really serious threat. and i just don t think we re adequately dealing with it. here s the biggest problem that i see. we don t have any kind of announced doctrine or strategy or policy of responding to this kind of thing. the russians and the chinese, everyone else knows, if they send a missile to new york, they know what will happen as a result. in this case, if they try to take down our democratic system through the internet, or through computer systems or even people