our cybersecurity defenses. some experts are saying this is a cat and mouse game, it s like playing whack-a-mole, you get after one and another pops up. so how can you really protect the elections as the midterms approach? i think that it is a cat and mouse game, in part. we need systemic responses. the kind of step we re announcing today, this account guard initiative, is a systemic feature. i think the kind of step we took last week is systemic in the sense that we ve now been able to apply the strategy 84 times. but ultimately i think we also need to recognize something that is more sobering. there is clearly innovation on the other side. we re going to have to continue to innovate as well. i think it s fundamental to what it means to protect democracy in the 21st century. mr. smith, the president as recently as last night was suggesting there could be other players, it could be china who
people? i m very concerned, chris. i worked hard in a bipartisan way to get $380 million in election grants out and distributed to states. that s something senator klobuchar, senator lankford and others really fought for. and i m trying this week in the election excuse me in the upcoming appropriations votes we re having in the senate to get another round of $250 million in grants to states so that they can strengthen their cybersecurity defenses so they can procure new voting systems and equipment. senator klobuchar was just on in the previous segment with anderson cooper. yep. she and senator lankford have a great bill, the secure elections act, that i think we should take up and pass that is a corollary or a complementary
her bathroom which was unsecu d unsecured. that could be the focus of a lot of attention. you ve said that every conversation that we ve had, this didn t have an impact on the election. is that important? ambassador bolton makes the point that the russian efforts being incompetent or insufficient shouldn t make us feel better. it s not important to make the point that there s evidence that had an impact or any effect on u.s. elections. i think we ought to be doing what we can to say, look, that s unacceptable, we re not going to tolerate it even while we re attempting to do it to you. i get that. that s part of the postering and the diplomatic move that we have to take. this is a good time for us to explore the holes in our cybersecurity defenses and maybe the great focus, instead of putting om sanction on russia, although i don t have any
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secrets on a private server in her bathroom which was unsecu d unsecured. that could be the focus of a lot of attention. you ve said that every conversation that we ve had, this didn t have an impact on the election. is that important? ambassador bolton makes the point that the russian efforts being incompetent or insufficient shouldn t make us feel better. it s not important to make the point that there s evidence that had an impact or any effect on u.s. elections. i think we ought to be doing what we can to say, look, that s unacceptable, we re not going to tolerate it even while we re attempting to do it to you. i get that. that s part of the postering and the diplomatic move that we have to take. this is a good time for us to explore the holes in our cybersecurity defenses and maybe the great focus, instead of putting om sanction on russia,