You have been watching an extraordinary press briefing, im Brooke Baldwin, youre watching cnn. That was a true show of force right before the president begins his ten day summer vacation. You have these different federal intelligence chiefs stand he at the podium warning of russian interference both about past and upcoming u. S. Elections. To assure americans that the Trump Administration is actively confronting those Cyber Security threats. We have subsequently made the determination to make this a top priority that it doesnt happen again. Were throwing everything at it and we will have and will be discussing that here today. Relative to my discussions with the president on whatever issue it is, those i do noted go public with that. I dont think thats the right,
proper thing to do. Our focus here today is to tell the American People we acknowledge the threat. It is real. It is continuing. And were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the American People can have
this president to stop this russian interference in the elections, not just from what we experienced in 2016 but into the mid-terms this november, and saying quote the threat is real. so, tim we haven t heard from you yet and you were making the point we were chaptering during commercials russians have been attacking for a while, but to quote, to quote director coats they stepped up their game big time in 2016. we have to keep in mind that a large part of the russian effort is a disinformation campaign. this is not just simply the actions of russian intelligence officers in our country, it s also an attempt to shape our national dialogue. so, it s very important that the white house not forget that it s not enough to make sure that machines are secure and that we have good counter cyber capabilities. we also must not be sending a signal from the white house that is doing the russian work for the russians.
them to be double agents for you. or particularly to tim s point with disinformation, the way to neutralize it is to make it transparent. how you mean? that means if you re being bombarded by propaganda, the way that we as a free society, we re not going to shut down the outlets there are first amendment barriers to it. what we do is say hey you need to know the source of this information. this is what wray said is working with tech companies to expose where certain things are coming from russian actors. the indictment against the social media about the social media campaign is to let americans know you are being targeted with propaganda and it is up to us partly to be critical, to process information using critical thinking skills which seem to be, i think, in shorter supply these days. i hear you. and transparency is always a good thing but we were making the point telephone point is to