I love the studio. Melissa almost like the studio you are in later. Almost the position. Dagen im on the five first time tomorrow. Look out. Im jealous. Harris . Harris we will begin with the fox news alert awaiting the start of the White House Press Briefing Amid questions looming about Robert Muellers russia investigation and whether we are closer to a potential sit down between the special counsel and President Trump. Its being talked about. We are covering it as we go outnumbered overtime. Im harris faulkner. Moments from now, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will step up to the lectern to the left of the screen inside the White House Briefing room. The Mueller Probe expected to be a hot topic. Sources telling fox news that they responded to a letter from the legal team about the scope of a potential interview. Are they pulling parameters
he has with the level of corruption we have seen from james comey, peter strozk, andrew mccabe. Harris the chief White House Correspondent john robe
type of information it s processed through the leadership of the respective house chamber. senate chamber. then disseminated down to the individual member who is targeted. so we have taken that action in place but i m not in a position now to release names. harris: will you support the legislation imposing sanctions on russia now that you say they interfered? we already had a lot of sanctions in place and i support any efforts that we can collectively put together to send a signal to russia there is a cost, price to pay for what they are doing. and if we want to have any relationship whatsoever in dealing with things of mutual interest, russians have to stop doing what they are doing or it s not going to happen. general, have you been ordered at all to or
will the government shutdown on the 1? in 2017, designated infrastructure critical, the critical sub sector. we priority efforts. any state with a vulnerability assessment, scans, et cetera, we ll prioritize in the budget. one last question. for the director and the general. can you unpack what you said. there was a question for the director and for the general. do you give us a better sense of who specifically is targeted? we know two senators said they were targeted by hacks. or people impersonating members. is it member of the house or the senate? we follow a procedure that is agreed upon some time ago in terms of when we see this
but it is important to understand this is not just an election cycle threat. our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and a regular basis, whether it s election season or not. there is a clear distinction between on the one hand activities that threaten the security and integrity of the election systems. and on the other hand the broader threat of influencer operations designed to manipulate and influence our voters and their opinions. with our partners we are trying to counteract both threats. we have three pillars to the operational strategy. the first is the investigation and the operations. and for a variety of reasons which i hope are obvious, and including operational sensitivities i m not able to describe the full extent of those efforts but i will tell you that the foreign influence task force works with the f.b.i. personnel in all 56 f.b.i. field offices. even as we speak, we have got open investigations with a
continues to be concerned about the threats of the upcoming u.s. elections. both the midterms and the presidential election of 2020. in regard to russian involvement in the mid-term elections we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. these efforts are not exclusive to this election. or future elections. but they certainly cover issues relevant to the election. we also know the russians try to hack in to and steal information from candidates and the government officials alike. we are aware that russia is not the only country that has been interest in trying to influence our domestic political environment. we know there are others who have the capability and may be considering influence activities. as such we will continue to