Dropping. When you realize how big and how much of an effort now that the fbi is taking on in trying to sort of disrupt some of this. The American Public has to have confidence in the Voting Process in this country, josh campbell, and you say seeing all of those intel chiefs was a great step. Absolutely. We heard a lot of specifics here today. But theres also there symbolic effort which is so important for the American People to see. This united front. Seeing the intelligence chiefs standing there and telling the American People we take this threat seriously. Those of us who cover the Intelligence Community know they take it seriously but the public has to hear it. There are too many challenges they are focusing on. Physical infrastructure security, the voting systems, ensuring confidence in those systems. But then also countering these foreign influence Operation Sway her can y herculean task. Even if no vote is changed, if
foreign adversaries can persuade the American People that the
witness rick gates could testify we hear as early as tomorrow. gates is manafort s long time business part and a deputy in the trump campaign. on the topic of manafort, why is president trump using his name in the same sentence with notorious mobster al capone? he s done it several times. trump tweeting, looking back on history, who was treated worse, alfonso capone, legendary mob boss killer and public enemy number one or paul manafort political operative and reagan/dole arlington now serving solitary confinement although convicted of nothing. the fbi didn t think there was lining with paul manafort who really is a nice man. you look at what s going on with him. it s like al capone. daily beast special columnist michael daly with me.