Early absentee ballots now out in north carolina. Five other states begin their early voting within the next two weeks. And for the race once predicted as a landslide, this one is increasingly looking like its going to be one of the closest elections in president ial history. Our Political Team is here. They are ready to go. We want to start with msnbcs alex seitzwald, joining me here in the studio. Thank you for being here. Quickly, i want to talk about Hillary Clinton if we can. She feels there is an opportunity here. Sse is trying to seize the advantage, as it were, after that commanderinchief forum on the topic of National Security. Its why she is bringing together this Bipartisan Team of National Security. And Foreign Policy experts. Talk about this strategy and how she sees an opening. This has always been her strong suit. Former secretary of state, of course, a lot of experience here, especially against donald trump. Its been a way for her to show she can be commanderinchief try
Cyberspace. We clearly are not where we want to be nor where we need to be in this regard. We continue to make investments in technologies and capabilities to improve detection of malicious cyber activities and make it more difficult for malicious cyber actors intending to do us arm. It takes talented, motivated people. Were investing more than ever in the recruitment and retnentin of a Skilled Workforce that is knowledgeable, passionate and dedicated in protecting the nation of or friend and allies around the world. Innovation is one of the key tenet of nsa and Cyber Command and we need to think creatively about challenges that do not ascribe to traditional understandings of borders and boundaries. This remains a key challenge as we look to the future. Cyber challenge is deploying teams to defend theital networks that support dod operations, sport combatant commands are in their Missions Worldwide and bolster dods capacity to defend the nation against Cyber Attacks of significant cons
Congressman mike pompeo for cia director a lot going on. We have peter ducey, sorry peter, work with your dad in the morning, steve. Outside trump tower. What did the Transition Team today say about the hearings . Heather, theyre watching the confirmation hearings in washington. They want to be clear about one thing, even if a nominee for a cabinet job doesnt said something that does not precisely line up with what the president elect has said, if theyre talking about russia for example, it doesnt matter. Each nominee they think will pursue the president elects vision and the president elects agenda. They dont see a conflict there the same way they think there was a conflict with the intelligence community. Until last night, mr. Trump had taken aim at five agencies during his press conference with the world watching suggesting that somebody there leaked information they should rnlt have leading to story and confusion about thor verified document that spread all over the world. Director
Islam ophobic. Firing back with the candidates suggesting on twitter that mrs. Clintons comment will hurt her in the polls. He attended yesterdays values voter summit in washington and today his running mate mike pence will be speaking. They are working to energize religious conservative bs a constituency with its doubts about trumps bona fides. Kristin, what can you tell us . Uma, both mike pence and donald trump are expressing outrage over clintons remarks. This morning trump posted on twitter, quote, wow, Hillary Clinton was so insulting to my supporters, millions of amazing hardworking people. I think it will cost her at the polls. And then his running mate mike pence said this while speaking to conservative christians here at the values voter summit. The millions of americans that are supporting my running mate were described in the most deplorable of terms. So let me just say from the bottom of my heart, hillary, they are not a basket of anything. They are americans and they dese
Power. Rex tillerson. Michael caputo, Jeff Sessions attorney general for donald trump, and members of the trump family itself. This matters. Its serious. Our battleships werent sunk and our towers didnt collapse a la 2011. But no mistake, 2016 is are year we should mark on our calendars. And its still going on. The attack didnt end on election day. And will continue, as you have suggest, unless we, all of us in this room, stop it. A admiral rogers you have proudly worn that uniform your entire career. I am proud of your service and grateful for it. But i would ask you, sir, not even with respect to this specific investigation, to use your own words as someone who no doubt has been in theater, who has lost brothers and sisters in combat, to explain to me, but more importantly, to the American People. Dont assume they know the answer. Tell them in your words, why we should care about russias active measures campaign aimed at destabilizing our democracy and that of our allies. In your wor