Renovation and research looks at Election Security as camping 2020 approaches. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is is next. 24 hours ago at the white house, President Trump announcing the death of isis leader albaghdadi after a late Night Saturday raid in syria by u. S. Special forces. This is washington journal. We will start with your calls and comments on that raid and what it means for u. S. Military presence on the broader war on terror. Republicans, call 2027488001. For democrats, that line is 2027488000. Independents and others, 2027488002. You can send us a text as well. That is 2027488003. Make sure you put your name and where you are texting from on that. You can tweet us at cspanwj and we welcome your posts on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. That announcement coming just after 9 00 eastern yesterday morning during part of this program and we will show you some of the comments from President Trump in
Donors, you are completely nonpartisan and nonprofit. Host looking back to the 2016 election, what is the biggest lesson that you personally learned from that . Guest i think what weve learned, and these are facts that have been presented by both parties, the Senate Intelligence committee, our foreign adversaries are going to try to undermine our confidence in our own democracy and they are going to use whatever means at their disposal. Theyre going to try to attack our election infrastructure. Attempted a spear phishing attempts on vendors and Election Officials in florida. They are also going to flood of our social media platforms with misinformation, trying to make us think that we cannot trust that our votes are going to be counted, we cant trust that our votes matter. What the Senate Intelligence committee and others have concluded is that russia was enormously successful. 2016 could not, have been the first year that russian or other foreign entities tried to mess with our electi
Information today. I will talk about the 2020 election with david becker whos and executive director for the center for election innovation and research. Us about the work the center does. We were founded in 2016 after worked for several years leading the pugh election team. E department, forcing federal voting laws. Tot we do now is we work ensure the security of the overall election system in the United States and also worked to improve access and convenience for all voters. Host you are at electioninnovation. Org. How are you funded . By donations and other donors, you are completely nonpartisan and nonprofit. Host looking back to the 2016 election, what is the biggest lesson that you personally learned from that . Guest i think what weve learned, and these are facts that have been presented by both parties, the Senate Intelligence committee, our foreign adversaries are going to try to undermine our confidence in our own democracy and they are going to use whatever means at their di
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