all investigators are looking at these things, but those are the things that jumped out at me. is it surprising to you that the department of homeland security hasn t been more front and center on this issue? absolutely. i have been saying it since the beginning of the week. the department was created because of september 11th. it has changed over time. it deals with storms and cyber attacks and everything else. but its main focus is to be the president s main communicator during before, after and during a terror incident. you could define this however you want. it is also intended to gal vvane state and local support and to talk to us, the american public, who may be nervous about what s in our mail system.
elections. there should be no doubt that russia perceived its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. we need to inform the american public that this is real and we need to stand up and say we won t tell some russian tell us how to run our country and there needs to be a national cry for that. and trump s department of homeland security hasn t released the names of the individual states. 18 and 21 that voters rolls were broken into by russian hackers. that is troubling, why? it s worth remembering going back to john bolton, john bolton was a russia hawk. i m old enough to remember
your chairman says he planned to have a public hearing next month. i think one of the big questions is we know russian bots and troll factories took out fake news ads on facebook. is there any indication that any of these russians who were behind the social media campaign were givenny information fromny americans on the best way to in influence the election via social media? well, jake, we don t have the answer to that yet. it s one of the reasons why we want to hear from facebook. we ll hear from fwitwitter next week. what we do know in terms of the investigations russian hacked into and released information on one party to help mr. trump and hurt clinton. they attacked 21 states electoral systems and unfortunately our department of homeland security hasn t shared that information. so i m not premard how we stop them coming back next year. and we increasingly know that
background checks. the problem is the department of homeland security hasn t given us kind of an outline exactly how they will undergo those background checks. the applicants will be accepted beginning on august 15th, shannon, which means the dhs has got to start hiring some more people to help process those various applications. reporter: they are going to staff that up. trace, thank you very much. reporter: sure. shannon: governor mitt romney raking it in just three months before election today. the g.o.p. presidential candidate s campaign announcing today with the help of the republican national committee it raised $101.3 million in july. that marks the second straight month it s passed the $100 million mark. the campaign also says more than 94% of all donations received last month were for $250 for less, focusing on the small donors. this is bad news for president obama who raised $75 million in
having this concern. i think this is a distraction from some of the real issues, like making sure we strengthen trade with mexico, that we deal with isis and make sure we have a right kind of relationship with russia. congressman, you know why i m talking to him. it s not because that s something i want to chase. i m an investigative reporter. there s nothing there for me to chase. it s because the president has put it on the radar and made it a political priority as he did, debunking the intelligence community s assessment that russia was behind the hacks during our election. what do you make of those positions? i m not criticizing you, chris, for doing your job, but these are some of the rabbit holes i don t think we should be going down. there has been zero evidence, credible evidence that i ve seen or have been presented to me. department of homeland security hasn t seen anything. they provide support to protect