he came across and your shot in town on a business trip who then took the dog to the vet. and paid the surgery bill. even better news, she adopted him. thanks for joining us, i am melissa. ♪ >> jon: i am a jon scott emperor shepard smith today. the latest verification from the white house after president trump had a meeting in helsinki. right now about the senate is voting on a resolution against russia -- i guessed russia, i should say to questioning u.s. officials. that would include formal ambassadors to russia. moscow asked to question the ambassador in exchange for allowing the u.s. access to access the queues in russian meddling. president trump called it an incredible offer. in the last couple of hours, officials said president trump

disagreed with it. they had called russia's request absolutely absurd and ambassador michael mcfaul tweeted that he would hope the white house would correct the record on what he calls a ridiculous request. so right now, in the senate, they are voting on this nonbinding resolution. we will keep you apprised as to what that vote reveals. >> all right, remember yesterday a reporter asked the president if he thinks russia is still targeting the u.s. resident trump said no. contradicting his top intelligence official. the white house later claimed that president trump was saying no to answering more questions from reporters. they were poor, president trump said that he meant to say he wouldn't when he said "i don't see any reason why it would be russia interfering." meantime, the director of national and intelligence dan coats is scheduled to speak in aspen, colorado. and we are expecting to hear more about all of this

back-and-forth. earlier today homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen set at that conference, while there is no question russian meddled in our election, there is no proof that the kremlin tried to help president trump. >> i have not seen any evidence that they attempted to favor a particular party. i think what we have seen on the foreign influence side is that they were attempting to intervene and cause chaos on both sides. >> we have a u.s. intelligence report on that issue. it reads in part "we also assess putin and the russian government aspired to help trumps election chances when possible by publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him." we are expecting to hear from president trump at a white house event. we will bring you live when it starts. there is the chief of staff, john kelly getting ready for the

president. white house correspondent at the white house now. kevin customer >> you know, it is never a good sign when you're constantly trying to clean up ts statement or backtracking, or just trying to get things out clearly. that is where the white house find its this afternoon. they feel after the helsinki summit involving russian president vladimir putin. all that said, i can also tell you that we did get a direct response during the summit. you mentioned it briefly, the idea of swapping interviews. and this is a nonstarter. sarah sanders, the white house press secretary said, once again trying to drill down on this idea that while the president on the one hand, john said it was an interesting proposal. the white house is putting an x on all of this or not. it was a proposal that was made in sincerity. but president trump disagrees with it. hopefully president putin will have the 12 identified russians

to come to the u.s. to prove their innocence or guilt. now putin's offer was to allow the u.s. to question those in exchange for permitting russia, you may remember, to interview americans that they accuse of specified crimes. the president called it an incredible offer for which he was criticized both at home and abroad. the president meanwhile is on twitter all day long talking about russia and to the summit. here's a tweet i want to share with you. he said the summit with russia was "a great success. a great success he called it. "except with the real enemy of the people, the fake news media media." and he added a really interesting line. he said "i look forward to our second meeting so that we can start and permitting some of the many things discussed including stopping terrorism, security for israel, middle east peace come up with. and more." there are many answers, some easy so hard to this problem.

they can all be solved. very interesting indeed, john. >> there is a new report out that candidate trump was told before his inauguration about the election meddling. >> it is a very interesting piece. if you have a chance, take a look at today's "new york times." in it they describe three senior administrative officials in the obama administration briefing the president. also interesting that rogers were joined by jim comey afterward, again, to lay out, not just what they knew about russian hacking and disturbances and creating chaos here in the u.s. political election and political system, it also described a so-called dossier, at least mr. comey did. there is a person that was there that i could us a lot more about it, we are talking former homeland security advisor tom. he was there, listen to what he

had to say about that today. >> i was in that brief income of the two weeks before the inauguration. that would focus primarily on the cyber component of what the russians did. not the information operations. those information operations are ongoing. i agree with the fbi director. >> just to give you a little clarity there, what he is suggesting, jon, is that this is a broad sweep briefing that you get so often especially in transition circumstances. it did not give grandeur to detail about some of the information that the russians both had and were attempting to exploit, and that is something that i'm sure the president got plenty up in the days after. back to you. >> jon: kevin at the white house. kevin, thank you. i mention that the senate is voting on that nonbinding resolution to keep the trump administration from letting moscow to interrogate a former u.s. ambassador. lawmakers including many from the president on party, immediately rejected that interview idea.

our chief correspondent is like out here with more. >> pay 23, good afternoon. a powerful figure was quick to eject that idea. >> i cannot see any good that will come of it. and i'm leave that up to mr. mccall. i think this whole idea of turning over or facilitating interrogation of americans is not a good idea. >> he was not alone. a key democrat lasted any senator to moscow for questioning. >> i have never heard in 40 years of public service a more preposterous and dangerous idea than giving russian intelligence access to one of our senior ambassadors in that kind of interrogation. >> the white house is saying

that it is vladimir putin's ide idea. capitol hill was saying that it is a horrible idea. jon. >> jon: is it seems like lawmakers are going to be able to get on the same page? >> not so far. it is a nonbinding. ed seems to have most bipartisan support so far. >> the idea that somehow it was an incredible proposal, that ambassador to russia would be subjected to cross examination a hostile power, sadly shows our president does not understand what it means to serve the united states overseas. >> a republican senator says that this will be added to the list of secretary of state questions when he comes up to capitol hill next week. >> talk that we would even retain sending like this has to be chilling. i don't understand what the

reluctance is. i can tell you mike pompeo will be here next week. he will certainly be the first question for a lot of us. >> as we are final vote count, it's important that it is nonbinding resolution. so far, the legislative branch has not passed anything significant to this point. >> jon: mike emanuel on capitol hill. thank you. we are waiting for president trump to take about. there is his daughter, a punk appeared for president does get there, we will to get a life. >> in the meantime we wanted to continue the discussion with columnists as "real clear politics." the senate is about to vote on some kind of verbal smack down on the notion of response to vladimir putin's request that an ambassador be subjected to russian interrogation. it is not sound like there is anybody on capitol hill who thinks that that is and i do.

>> it was clear that this was never going to fly. as kevin outlined, the president did refer to this interrogation swap as a credible offer. he seemed as if he was entertaining. sarah sanders emphasized in a follow question with "the new york times" that yes it was a under consideration. there was no decision made. the idea to both her publicans and democrats that this was being entertained was what needed to be met with a swift response. they have been waiting for the president to come out and say that this was not possible and no one from the diplomatic or former ambassador of the knighted states of america was going to be brought before interrogators and russia in exchange for our chance to interrogate people. so i think that it is a nonbinding resolution. they were doing it even though the white house has come out with some statement saying that it is not on the table that is

not under consideration. they were looking for immediate complete disavow. they did not get it. they wanted to send this message to our allies involves that that is something that would never be possible. >> jon: the flip side of that is that there are people on capitol hill who will tell you with a straight face that that they would really like to see vladimir putin deliver those 12 russian agents over to the u.s. for trial. that is not going to happen either. why does anyone pretend that it might? >> they know that that will not happen. they will try to do after monday is change the subject from what happened to president trump throwing dan coats, the director of national intelligence, name checking him in public, siding with vladimir putin's denial or the assessment of the u.s. intelligence community was trying to change the subject to a tough stance on russia, a tough stance on putin and the reassurance of our allies. mitch mcconnell say, i want

our friends in europe to know unequivocally that this is where we stand and we support nato and we are going to front putin and we don't believe him and we also believe the input of our intelligence committee. we want to get the subject off a president trump and the press conference performance that he keeps tweeting about and they want to keep the message back on a tough stance on putin and a supportive stance on posture with our allies. >> what went on in that to our meeting between the two leaders? i really think that this is the question. to say that the summit was a success as a failure, we don't know. the most important thing that happened was secretive to our meeting for which the government says there is a record. our own department of defense has no idea what happened. until, unless we know what happened with the agreements, the state propaganda russia keeps talking about were made behind closed doors, we had no idea what can happen in the future. that is the most critical question, more important at a press campus. >> jon: the only american in

the room was the state department and later who had long years of experience, apparently, doing the kind of work. there are a lot of people that say let's bring her in front of congress and testify. ♪ we are taking you back to the jobs event at the white house. you see there in the ornate east room, there is the president having been introduced by his daughter a vodka. his several members out there on the dais who have been invited to this jobs event. what is obviously on everybody's mind as questions about what happened in helsinki as we were just talking about with a.b. stoddard from "real clear politics." the president wanders off script and he may do so now pick let's listen in. as mike that is a very good group i will tell you. i see them undercover of all the magazines every week. every month. high fred. on my fred. that is great. thank you monica for your incredible

leadership of the white house. you really have done an incredible job and you have worked so hard. i want to say everyone here is proud of you. especially these folks like you. that is the future. i want to thank you, honey. i am thrilled. [applause] i am thrilled and honored to be here today to launch the national council for the american worker. joining us for the announcement is secretary wilbur ross. secretary, good. second alex acosta. education, acting secretary peter o'rourke, director mulvaney who has worked so hard on the is. small business, thank you linda.

and jared, fantastic job. chris, incredible. what a group. nobody knows. all stand up, fantastic job, andrea. please stand up. [applause] really great. thank you. i want to thank you all, so we have some very special people here. workforce chairwoman. now it's a chairwoman, right? we like it better. virginia foxx. virginia. thanks virginia. great job. we have representatives rick allen, jamie herrera butler. thank you, thank you. john duffy, sean, brent jim and ac

we have some very special other folks here in a very high administrative capacity. we have a favorite of mine, governor scott walker. a great job he has done. thank you, scott. and montana state auditor matt rosendale. matt, i hear that you're doing good. i hear big things from matt's. we are really especially grateful to be joined today by the top ceos union leaders trade associations, and educators from all around the country. these are the biggest, these are the best, these are the most talented. among those, and i am going to be introducing them and going around the table with them as they signed their pledge, but we have a friend of mine for a long time, the really, founder and creator, and i heard that he did a report on his school and he got low marks because they said it did not work, but he ended up

getting high marks. it is called fedex. that professor did not know what happened. brad smith. thank you, fred. people have to give that professor low marks because it worked out. [laughs] it worked out well for you. home depot ceo, doing a fantastic job, craig rainier. thank you. ceo, maryland. how is it doing? on-time? tom kennedy. thank you, tom. president, kathy warden. and we are going to introduced everybody in a little while. i also want to recognize chairman of the american trucking association. along with johnnie taylor, president of the society for

human resource management. they have been fantastic and really worked hard with us. everyone here today is united by the same goal, to train, recruit, hire american workers. thanks to our commanders tremes economic success, we have had a lot of them. as a country we have never been more successful than we are exactly right now today. the numbers coming out are beyond what anyone ever thought possible. [applause] and so if there is never been a better time to hire and grow in america. we have created 3.7 million jobs since the election. in the month of june alone, we grew the workforce by more than 600,000 workers. i say that if i ever mentioned this, if i ever mentioned this during the campaign they would have said that there is no way. there is no way. there is no way that that could

happen. well, it has happened and far more than we ever thought. we are in the longest, positive job growth streak in american history. african-american on employment has reached its lowest level. and american history. at its lowest level in american history. asian unemployment has reached its lowest level in american history. women's unemployment -- oh, this is too bad, it has reached its lowest level in only 55 years. but, within about two weeks, i think we will be able to say in american history. because it is moving quickly. 65 years isn't so bad, right? [applause] consumer and business confidence has reached its all-time highs. highest ever recorded. and 95% of manufacturers are

optimistic about the future. that is the highest number ever recorded. a lot of good things are happening out there. every day, we are lifting our forgotten americans off the sidelines, out of the margins and back into the workforce. we are giving a second chance at life to the 620,000 former inmates who reenter society each year. there is nothing like a great, great jobs market to take care of that situation. it is incredible. people who were in prison previous to this could not get themselves a job. and now, they are being hired and people are loving them. it has been really incredible to see. [applause] but to get this momentum going, to continue this economic miracle, and that is what it is, a miracle what has happened in the last year and a half.

we must invest in job training and vocational education. the fact is that companies are pouring back into our country. companies have frankly left ten or 20 years ago and we need to come back and work for those companies. we need talented people, we need people training. that is why in a few moments, i will be signing an executive order to establish the national council for the american worker. that is a first. this council will be made up of top officials across the government. we are also establishing an outside advisory board of industry leaders and experts which we will announce in the coming weeks, very shortly. a lot of people want to be on that board very badly. they're great people going on the board. together, their task will be to develop a national workforce and strategy to equip americans of all ages, and all stages of their career with the skills they need to thrive in the

modern economy. whether it is a high school student looking to land their first job, first time ever, we have a lot of enthusiasm. they lose that enthusiasm when they do not land that job. but now, they are all lending jobs. or a late career worker who wants to learn a new trade. we want every american to have the chance to earn a great living doing a great job that they love when they wake up in the morning and they can't get to work fast enough. a lot of these people know that feeling. that is why that they are in the position that they are in. i'm excited to announce an exciting new challenge and the beginning of a new national movement. we are asking businesses and organizations across the country to sign our new pledge to america's workers. today, 23 companies and associations are pledging to expand apprenticeships.

that is an interesting words for me to be saying. "the apprentice." i never actually put that together until just now. that was a good experience, i will tell you that. isn't that strange? i never associated, but here we are. you can't get away from that word. it is a great word. on the job training and vocational education. they will sign the pledge, committing to train and retrain more than 3.8 million american students and workers for new jobs and rewarding careers. [applause] this is only day one and we far exceeded our initial goal of 500,000 students and workers. we thought it was going to be 500,000 and it is close to 4 million. by the time the day ends it will

be well over 4 million. in the days and months ahead, we hope the hundreds of companies and organizations will join us in this effort. i want to thank all of the wonderful companies and associations who are about to sign the pledge that we are about to introduce. i pause your civic leadership, it is incredible. your great people. and your commitment to training and recruiting american workers. also here with us are american workers who know firsthand how job training transforms their lives. i would like to invite a couple of them to speak. brian, rihanna, where is breanna? breanna, come on over here. breanna d'angelo from greenwood indiana. she does apprentice for gaylor electric. a good company. that is a "yes" ." please say a few words.

>> hi everyone. i was a former college student turned mother, turned electrician. i was given a great, lifelong opportunity from gaylor electric and the partnership with the associated builders and contractors, i am standing here today for my daughter, 3-year-old, she has a long ways to go. i am standing here for her and women. they can see that they do not have to conform to what society says that they have to. they can do anything. i am going to be an electrician in two years. thank you. [applause] >> president trump: very nice, also here today is janita mcnair from orlando, florida. she is completing the hotel and

lodging associations apprenticeship or managers and there are really a lot of talented people coming out of the program. please. thank you. >> the president is introducing some of the personal stories of people who have benefited from training programs. he has asked some of the companies in the room, home depot, the homebuilders association, defense contractors to commit to training more such people. and he asked for half a million jobs, we understand since they have offered a whole lot more opportunities than that. that is the issue that perhaps most americans care about, the job situation. but as the president was speaking, the senate unanimously passed a nonbinding resolution that addresses the controversy of the moment saying that the u.s. should refuse to let the kremlin question u.s. diplomats

and anyone else as vladimir putin had offered during that to our meeting in helsinki. president trump previously called this an incredible offer. but in the last couple of hours, the white house said that president trump disagreed with it. act now to a.b. stoddard, associate editor and columnist at "real clear politics." we broke away from that conversation, he said that what happened in that event is really the nuts and bolts of helsinki. we heard the press conference and a lot of people were astounded by it, but we don't know a great deal about what happened during a private meeting. >> right, and jon, that is the most consequential thing of it the entire summit is that meeting. 90 minutes is a lot for no staff and off the record, no notetakers. 90 minutes-2 hours. president putin is not our friend.

he is telling people at home that the summit was beyond super, and they are on a positive path. they made all sorts of agreements that are going to help our relationship. the president, as you know is tweeting over the success of the summit. problems or challenges across the world's hot spots that can be solved. he needs russia's cooperation, a good relationship with russia. that is not what he talked about in that press covers. they did not come out and announce any confessions, pledges, agreements. that is why you see that interest in how we are going to learn, how we are going to unearth what actually happens from the president of the united states. we do not have a recording. the russian propaganda and the state media is flowering with all sorts of ideas about what president trump might have agreed to with president putin.

this is really the most critical outcome of the summit. what might have come to pass in that meeting that we are going to learn about in the future. >> jon: in our final minute, people are talking about, let's put the translator in front of the senate and ask her to tell us what happened in that meetin meeting. is that a viable idea? >> it is not appropriate and not realistic. translators are not focused on content, number one. they are just trying to translate words. and get through a language process here. and they are not involved in the topic and the substance. but also, it would set a dangerous precedent for any kind of private meeting of allies in the future. in any kind of discussion where no one would want to come in knowing that the u.s. is going to hold translators before congress for testimony. that is not the route for truth of what happened in the media. i don't think any translator is going to be brought before the congress. >> jon: a.b. stoddard from

"real clear politics." coming up next we will head to aspen, colorado. the director of national intelligence set to speak at the big confab there a few minutes from now. dan coats in the last week have been clear in their assessment of russian election it appears. he says president trump walks back his own comments on russian meddling. what will direct your say no? that is up to come.

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>> jon: breaking news and the director of national intelligence, dan coats about to speak in a security conference in the aspen, colorado. the warning lights are blinking red. cyber threats about the u.s. russia is one of the worst offenders and the russians are still trying to undermine our democracy. on monday, after president trump refused to say whether he

believed intelligence or vladimir putin, intelligence agencies have been clear in their evidence of russian meddling. she is life at the security conference in aspen. >> jon, this is one of the most highly anticipated panels at the barn. the director of national intelligence is the nation's top spy and he speaks for the 16 intelligence agencies. that's why his statement earlier this week rebuffing the president over his comments in russia was so significant. he is also issued a series of warnings about russia and other nations. >> the warning lights are blinking red again. today, the digital infrastructure that served this country is literally under attack. every day, foreign actors, the worst offenders being russia, china, iran, and north korea.

>> one of the things that we understand, all of these nations do is use cyber to try to gain the advantage. it is the gray zone. these groups use information warfare to try to level the playing field where they cannot have the military or economic advantage over the united state united states, jon. >> jon: we also heard from the fbi director? >> that is right. he was in aspen last night, and he took a number of point questions about helsinki and the president's comments about russia. the fbi director was very clear that the evidence has always been solid about russia's involvement. >> he has his view and expressed his view. i can tell you what my view is. the intelligence community's assessment met changed. my view has not changed. that is that russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage

and malign influence operations to the state. >> that phrase "malign influence" is another way of saying that they are engaged in information warfare. they are looking for issues that they believe can really divide americans. let us listen. >> they will identify a divisive issue and through a variety of means, some overt, some covert, some through fake news, some through propaganda will essentially so divisiveness, spend people up on both sides of the issue and kind of watch us go at each other. >> so it all is about sowing dissent and division. the big headlines last night, for some people's surprise came at the fbi said the most serious and in some ways comprehensive cyber actor against the united states is not russia, it is in fact china, because of the way in which it has been able to

leverage business intelligence affirmation as well as military intelligence information and they said consistently that they have chinese counter investigations and all of their field offices across the country, jon. >> jon: as we wait for the director of national intelligence of the conference, thank you. let's bring in caitlin owens, a reporter. we expect to hear from dan coats in about 10 minutes that the confab is running a little bit behind schedule, we understand. he is and kind of a difficult position. appointed by the president, but has to be somewhat critical of the president, right now. >> right, i think he is walking a pretty difficult liner no. he has been very clear that the intelligence is that russia meddled in the 2016 election and is attempting to do so in 2018. he is been very straightforward about that, that is what the intelligence is at the same tim

time. president trump has been flip-flopping about whether or not he believes russian meddled in the election. this week has been one series of flips and flops after another. the difficulty here is, if you are coats, how do you maintain what you know to be true, what the evidence is pointing to without angry president trump who does not like to be crossed by anyone in the administration. >> jon: because the president said yesterday that he accepts the conclusion on the meddling. >> this has cleared up as the week went on. when a statement came out monda monday, he has been an extremely difficult position but what we have seen is, sometimes in the past it has not worked out so well for administration officials that have criticized the trump. he did say that he excepted the view. he is in the clear for now. >> jon: the legislative branch, a coequal branch of government.

we just had a unanimous senate vote during this hour condemning the idea that any u.s. ambassadors or other personnel would be required to go over to russia and be submitted to some kind of cross-examination by vladimir putin's government. what is the reaction going to be at the white house for that? >> this is no surprise. republicans, democrats, for years, we have viewed russia, the kremlin as a foe, not a friend. no one takes putin's word as fact or to be just appeared i think that is what president trump has realized from the back lash the few days. he said on monday about putin being strong and putin saying that he didn't meddle, and why would you believe that? he saw the backlash, and i think that he is coming to terms with

it. there will be a strong reaction to what the senate just did. it is hard to predict. >> jon: thank you. >> thank you. >> jon: now this breaking news, the director of national intelligence, dan coats speaking at the conference in aspen, colorado. >> there will be times when i have to bring news to you that you do not want to hear. i want you to know at the news that i bring to you, the information that i bring to you will be to the best extent that we can be unvarnished. nonpoliticized. the best that our incredible intelligence agency can produce so that you will have the information that you need to make the policy decisions that you are going to be faced with. and on that basis, we started a good relationship. at this point in time, what we had assessed and reassessed and

reassessed, and carefully gone over still stands. and that it was important to take a stand on behalf of the intelligence community and behalf of the american people as we have seen, the president has made statements relative in support of that. which i appreciate. the latest being on one of your rival networks. i will give you the privilege of not naming them. we will keep nbc in front. therefore, it was part of my role. i felt that it was important that i do that. it has been set and discussed personally with the president and i think that it is time to move on. >> except that the president has made so many conflicting statements.

he has switched from one position to the other even in the same day as recently as yesterday. and i am wondering, when you watch that in helsinki, what was your gut reaction watching him validate vladimir putin's assessment over years? >> my thoughts were that i believed that i needed to correct the record for that. this is the job that i signed up for. that was my responsibility. obviously, i wished that he had made a different statement. i think that now that has been clarified based on his late reactions to this. and so, i don't think i want to go any further than that. >> in the cabinet room, one of the statements that you referred to, he said, i except our intelligence agencies conclusions that russians meddling took place.

could be other people also. could be also people also quick to mark what know that you don't know? >> that is not a definitive word here. could someone else be looking at how to do this relative to our elections, possibly rogue stakes or whatever? we know others have the potential. it is undeniable that the russians are taking the lead on this. they are the ones that are trying to undermine our basic values that divide us with our allies. they are the ones that are trying to wreak havoc over the election process but we need to call them out on that. it is critical that we do so and then take steps to make sure that they are not able to do this with an election coming up. elections in the past have put in place things that we need to put in place in terms of making

sure that we can guarantee to the american public, when they walk in that bunny was and cast their vote, however they cast it, it is a valid vote and will not be tampered with. whatever result comes from the selection is something people can have confidence in and not manipulative by anyone whether that was externally or internally, politically, there have been times when parties have been trying to manipulative the boats, one way or another. that simply is not acceptable. the very basics of democracy is the ability to have confidence in elected officials and that they are elected legitimately. we have to make every effort to make sure that it happens in this upcoming election and future elections. >> just to nail this document the night they 2017 intelligent assessment community, the findings said putin and the russian government developed a

clear preference for resident elect trump. has anything changed that would make it more or less certain that it was vladimir putin in charge of the? >> i don't want to give into too far with the investigation is going through. >> we continue to provide intelligence that we achieve, relative to our customers. which is the president, the policymakers and the white house, the oversight committees and the house and the senate. in that basis, it is available to them. we will keep doing that. relative to what is coming in 2018, as he said this morning, they do not have evidence anywhere what happened in 2016. despite that given we cannot

rest on that assumption. as i mentioned in my speak at hudson commit just a week or so ago, just one click of the keyboard that could change this narrative. we have to be ever vigilant on this, and i think we have to be relentless in terms of calling out the russians for what they have done. we have to be vigilant in putting steps in place to make sure that it does not happen again. more transparency we can have relative to this issue the better. >> men and women who work for you are working around the clock. pick out they are. >> around the world and putting their lives on the line in many cases. to make sure our democracy is sacred what you say to them when the president is about their work or others, or governments disavow or criticize their work? >> i say there are people around the world and in the 16 agencies within the united states, i said

to them, we are professionals. we are here to provide professional service to our government. we need to keep our heads down, we need to go forward with wonderful technological capabilities that we have to produce intelligence. there is a lot of political swirl going around, just do your jobs. our goal is to make on politicized information necessary for our policymakers to make good decisions. and so, try to get up every morning, go to work, do your jo job, if you're thinking one way or another way, develop a plus or minus, set that aside, go home and think about it whatever. the product that you're putting together has to be absent from any kind of political manipulation. >> in helsinki, the president

was alone with vladimir putin for two hours, for the two hours with only translators. basically, how do you know what happened? you are on the dark side of the moon. how do you have any idea what happened in that meeting? >> you are right, i do not know what happened in the meeting. i think as time goes by kim at president has already mentioned something that happened in that meeting, i think we will learn more. that is the president's prerogative. if he had asked me, how it would be to connect, i would've suggested a dip away. that is not my role, that is not my job. it is what it is. >> is there a risk that vladimir putin could have recorded it question work speak of that risk is always there. >> is there a risk that the soccerball could have been wired?

>> [laughs] is not a world cup soccer ball? we have an ability to measure those kinds of things and determine whether or not they are risk. >> i figured that you did. >> every time i come home there is a limit to what they can give you and you meet with foreign adversaries. all of that has to go through radar and processes. is it less than $20 or whatever? i am sure that that soccerball has been looked at very carefully. >> i bet that you look at that big letter from president kim jong un that was part right into the oval office but that was really something else. >> today the white house at that the president now disagrees with vladimir putin's offer to question ambassador michael mcfaul and other americans or diplomats. as a former ambassador, are you dismayed that it took the president three days to come to that conclusion? >> andrea, i don't know how to

answer questions like that. my focus now is on what is happening around the world. threats that face the american people, threats to undermine our democracies. that is what i was hired to do. i cannot focus -- when i was a policymaker in the congress, we like to think as senators we have an answer for anything, even though we don't. we like to think that. now, i am on a completely different job. i spent a lot of time trying to get my name in the paper back at home, you know, so people would vote for me, remember my name when they went into the voting booth. i am in a job now where it is just the opposite. i spent my lifetime not being in the paper. not having my picture or words, i do very few of these types of -- >> i know, we are very grateful.

>> it is hard to say no to an invitation to aspen. especially, in the hot summer of washington, d.c. but, i try to keep my focus where it needs to be. and so, there are some things that i just don't get into. >> let's focus on your morning. on friday, you said the warning lights are blinking red again. your speaking about cyber. >> i was. >> you said russia was the most aggressive and cyber. >> by far. >> what is it mean by attacks, frequency of attacks, successful attacks? >> and means that we are under attack in many, many ways. a critical infrastructure, our industries are in many ways the plus side of what the

interconnectedness of the world through the internet, all of the revolutionary things that have incredibly impactful as far as moving us forward, we are now learning about the dark side and it is pretty ugly. and what we see every day against our institutions, against our military, i guess our financial services, against our critical infrastructure, stretching from those who have major capabilities of doing this, starting with russia. including china, may be for a different purpose, stealing our innovations. their intent i think, is different than the russians. add isis into that. we first learned about isis, when they started slicing off heads. we identified isis as a seventh

century barbarism. it was totally unacceptable and where did this come from and where did this theology come from? at the same time they were slicing off heads, they were operating a sophisticated cyber program to reach out to recruit people, to give them instructions to inspire them to take acts, to join this jihadist movement through some very capable -- i mean incredibly capable cyber. you see the danger that cyber can provide if you do it in those ways. it is everything from a sophisticated nation with a lot of capabilities to rogue states to criminal organization, to a kid sitting in his dorm room that can wreak havoc on our economy, wreak havoc on our country, on our political infrastructure. we are throwing everything we have on it's to prevent it from

happening, but it has become in my mind, and what i said in the threat assessments, up there at the top. we need to understand that. i was worried about complacency. every day you hear, 100 million people's names have been snatched from equifax, whatever, and they probably got stuck from your phone, you should be changing your password every week. i'm not going to do that. i cannot remember the password, et cetera, et cetera. there is a complacency of what is happening. this is the result of it. i'm concerned -- you say what are you worried about at my customer concerned about cyber 9/11. pick up what would that look like? >> well, you shut down wall street per week. i would that do investment's question work is a you crash bank of america or wells fargo, or whatever, and all of a

sudden, people are saying, wait a minute, what happened to my account? what happened to my retirement? we will get it back. we have seen this. we have seen coverage of this. we have not seen the big one. what about an attack on the electric grid in new england in january? sophisticated enough to take it out for three days. how many people will die from minus degree weather on that? those are the things that i think you have to try to anticipate, what are the capabilities that our adversaries now have if they wanted to use them? asked charlie allen, who in my mind is a legend, and i look to him for advice on a regular breakfast, i won't tell you where we meet. but these are things, i think, strategically, we have to look forward. tom clancy's sum of all fears when a terrorist group obtains a

weapon of mass destruction picked the weapon of mass destruction had been one of those airliners that hit the twin towers, we would not be talking about 3,000 victims, we would be talking about 300,000 victims or more. these are the things that we have to think about it we cannot rest on our laurels that we collect a lot of information, we know what is going on. there are people out there playing this game of chess with us in ways that are going to take us down. we have to be better than they. that is a huge challenge and that is why i say it is a whole government effort that has to take place relative to cyber. >> if the white house fired at cyber coordinator and has not replaced him, as the president really engaged in this mark because, if the president is not leading the charge, will the troops really try to take the health? >> as you know, we have a national security advisor, john

bolton. he made a change relative to who is handling that at the white house level. john bolton is putting in place the replacements for that. he assured me that that is a key issue that we need to address. in the meantime, this has spread throughout our various agencies. each one, somewhat different than the other, taking major steps. we have fusion centers, we have processes underway. kirstjen nielsen -- >> jon: dan coats, the longtime u.s. senator from indiana and for an ambassador to germany speaking at the aspen security conference, one of the most interesting lines is that he, now our nation's top spot as director of national intelligence, he says he has no idea what happened during that two hour meeting in helsinki between president trump and russian president vladimir putin. right after the show, you can

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