Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or
who feel like that would can then two more years of fix eighting on 2016 election events? our investigations should always be about the future. we look back to inform us how we can best protect our democracy from something like this happening again. i know mr. schiff has said and i agree with him that if bob mueller s investigation and the senate investigation are not able to produce i think refors that are needed to protect the ballot box going forward, of course, we re going to do our duty and go back and look at what is unanswered but if they do their job and bob mueller is able to tell the country what happened, i don t think we want to reopen that just for politics sake. it s also not too late for republicans to sign onto the bipartisan legislation you ve written with elijah cummings that would have an independent commission. i think it s too charged to handle this in congress. we should put expert anderson skates persons on this task, look at everything that happened, who worke