acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and f.b.i. director christopher ray testify at a house hearing on national security threats. >> jill biden, and doug emhoff the spouses of presidential candidate joe biden and senator kamala harris were in delaware on wednesday. they b distributed campaign lawn signs and spoke with supporters. i retired this year after working for 37 years. she taught me the ropes and we have been doing phone banks -- >> yeah, we have been doing that for a while and we went to the democratic convention. [indiscernible] thank you for all your help. you are the second-highest phone banker in the state of new hampshire, right? [applause] this, this is at a picture of me and joe. [indiscernible] doug, the fellow in the brown --t [indiscernible] >> thank you for that. [indiscernible] >> we really appreciate it. >> tell everyone your name. >> my name is anna. [indiscernible] >> will have you -- [indiscernible] brandon, what is the best place to -- >> what's but here. >> awesome, thank you. >> i think we are going to g

now, in addition, murphy is also claiming in this whistle-blower report that cuccinelli and chad wolfo modify these intelligence assessments to really downplay the threat of white supremacist groups. zpa and instead emphasize these leftist groups like antifa. and of course, the president and attorney general have repeatedly blamed leftist groups including antifa for the unrest unraveling in this country. this has really set up alarm bells for the house intelligence chairman, adam schiff. he's called this a danger to our nation and also called on this whistle-blower, brian murphy, to come testify. in the meantime, dhs is saying all of these allegations are patently untrue. but john, it really raises this question once again, are top trump appointees really just trying to appease the president rather than following the intelligence and the facts here? john? >> and to keep things from congress and the american people. jessica schneider, thank you very much for being with us. i'm sure we'll hear much more about this in the days ahead. >>> the president's own director of national intellige

he complaint says in may, chad wolf told ryan murphy to cease providing intelligence asse assessmentsreat of russian interference in the united states and instead start reporting on interference activities by china and iran. it said that wolf told murphy that direction came from o'brien. here is o'brien's reaction. >> i've never even heard of that guy, i don't know who he is, and it's hearsay. he says he heard it from somebody else. i don't think anyone has been tougher on russia than i or the president has been. china is a serious threat to our elections, iran is a serious threat to the free and fair elections here. >> mark, what's your response to that? >> right, a few things. i didn't hear a denial that he told chat wolf that. so that's one thing. he said he didn't know the client. that's fine. we've never said he did. he makes a comment that it's hearsay. well let's understand, under the law for whistle-blowers, all you need to do is have a good faith basis and hearsay is perfectly acceptable, and we made it very clear in the complaint that this was chad wolf telling directly to b

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a.m., acting 9:00 homeland security secretary chad wolf and fbi director christopher wray testify at hearing on national security threats. ♪ >> you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government, created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. next, a look at key issues for evangelical christians in the upcoming election. the washington post hosted a series of virtual discussions with bishop pd jakes and ralph reed, founder and chairman of the faith and freedom, elation. topics included the black lives matter movement, u.s.-israel

a >> dagen: acting homeland security secretary chad wolf sending a strongly worded letter to the mayornd, oregon, last night telling him to ask for help federal help for the present will send in the feds. portland police declared a riot last night after hundreds of protesters marched on the mayor's apartment building. they set fire to it. at the president denouncing the latest violence months ago. >> president trump: lots of bad things were happening to this poor, foolish, stupid mayor. all he has to do is call and in 10 minutes their problem will be over. as you know they have to call us, they have to call and request help. all he has to do is call and the problem will end. >> dagen: in the meantime, sheriffs and to neighboring counties are refusing to comply with the government's plan to use their deputies up with the unrest in portland which is now stretched to more than 90 straight nights. when sheriff says adding law enforcement is not the answer, saying in a statement that the same offenders are arrested night after night only to be released by the court and not charged with the

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judy: i saw today the president formally nominated chad wolf to be the secretary of homeland securityhave been in touch with people at homeland security today. what are they saying about all this? amna: they flatly denthe claims. results of any invtion.he they say there is no truth murphy's claims. they said the agency is working rm address all threats to land -- to the homeland, regardless of ideology and chad wolf is focused on thwarting interference from any foreign powers or extremist group. weanhould mention b murphy has been invited by house democrats on the housell inence committee to testify before a private session we will follow up then. judy: so much to keep trackinf, almost dizfor the american public, trying to follow what in goinn washington. thanyou so much, so much important reporting. amna nawaz, nick schifrin, thank you. ♪ judy: the political fallout from the president's comments to journalist bob woodward about the coronavis remains to be seen. but there are also questions about what more could or shauld been done when president trump realized the coronavirus was muc

downplay the threat from white supremacists, specifically murphy says that the acting secretary chad wolfse providing intelligence assessments on the threat of russian interference and instead focus on gathering information on iran and china. now, those two countries as set forth by the intelligence community say that they actually favor joe biden over president trump in the upcoming november election. now murphy also said that these instructions were put forth at the direction of the national security adviser robert o'brien, and then secondly, murphy also says that both chad wolf and ken cuccinelli actually made moves to alter the intelligence assessments when it came to the white supremacist threat, instead kind of modifying that language and emphasizing instead the threat from lefties groups like antifa. of course, the president as well as the attorney general have consistently hammered in on antifa and leftists groups as really the main culprits of all of this unrest that has unsettled the country. so, of course, all of this, these complaints coming out in the whistle-blower complaint

. >>> to the west coast, acting homeland security secretary chad wolf sent a message to portland's mayoring if he did not request health, the administration will act on its own. we have the latest from portland. >> black lives matter! >> reporter: portland is quickly reaching 100 straight days of protests with no end in sight. monday was day 96, hundreds hitting the streets, setting fires and watching toward the mayor's condominium tower. >> a black family's house was set up and they didn't have cops for 17 hours because they were so busy arresting people like me -- peaceful protesters. >> reporter: aaron danielson died from a gunshot wound to the chest. on monday a small memorial was held for danielson. >> reporter: oregon's governor kate brown authorized state police to assist the police department but the head of the police association said state police backup will not be sent to portland because criminal rioters are not being prosecuted are held accountable. >> we think it's really important at this point in time to end the violence on the streets of portland. >> reporter: and acting

the honorable chad wolf is the acting secretary of the department of homeland security. mr. wolf was appointed to the acting secretary position following his confirmation as undersecretary for the office of strategy, policy and plans in november, 2019. while serving as the senior official overseeing the department's policymaking process, mr. wolf led the development in coordination of strategies and policies to advance the department's homeland security mission. mr. wolf previously held numerous senior leadership roles within the department including serving as the chief of staff for the department. prior to joining the administration, mr. wolf served as vice president and senior director at wechsler and walker a bipartisan public policy consulting firm. mr. wolf? >> well, good morning, chairman johnson and ranking member peters and other distinguished members of the committee. certainly an honor to appear before you today as the president's nominee to be the secretary of homeland security. i'm grateful to the president for the faith and trust he placed in me to serve the tre

he also has homeland security each secretary chad wolf along as well i will be serving the damaged areaso be made with local law enforcement as well. >> president trump: biden wasn't going to come out of his basement until the election but now he had to. i leave early in the morning and get home late at night and that's what you to do as president. i knew emerson college survey shows the race tightening. biden leads by just two points down from the four-point average back in july. are democrats concerned about the tightening race? >> we've known from the very beginning that it was going to be a tight race. let's be real, and understanding here, this is the president election to win. that's historic and we have known that this time around. we have an economy that is one in ten americans unemployed. and this is certainly not your typical election year. and what we can tell you is that biden can make the case for the american people. that president has failed to meet the moment. it's actually a president who will care for you and work to end a pandemic once and for all. a lot of people won

murphy who oversaw the intelligence division until last month alleges that acting dhs-second second chad wolf and ken cuccinelli offered to be changed because they made the president look bad. murphy said he was told focus on the sbrrch activities by china and iran and he said that wolf told him that these instructions came from white house national security advisor robert o'brien. >> i don't think there's anyone who's been tougher on russia than very. >> murphy said he was told to modify intelligence on white supreme cysts in a manner that will made appear less severe. in line with the president's public comments. >> antifa's a criminal organization. >> mark seine is nur fi's attorney. >> information pertaining to russia and the analysis and the russian intelligence reports was downplayed in order to assure additional favorable information to president trump. which was something mr. murphy said no, he would not do. >> the w hou denst briever dictated such changes. meanwhile on capitol hill, house intelligence chairman adam schiff wants murphy to testify before his committee later on this mon

chad wolf is the acting secretary. we are glad to have him on tonight.tary, thanks so much for coming on. joe biden threatened, denounced, choose your verb, that the president is reelected, we will see more violence. are you worried about that? >> i'm not, tucker. i would say that that is a delusional statement. the idea that the department of homeland is somehow the reason or the cause behind this violence is just absurd. look, the department has been at this since early july. he was in portland addressing some of this violent rioting and looting that has been occurring. we have been at this for some time. we understand. we have been having been described as causing this violence. we know that's not the case. and now, before they ignore it, it became dhs's problem. and now they are saying that it is the administration on the course the president that is causing this. all of these allegations are absurd. they are not true. i think most americans understand what is going out there. really the cause of all of this is state officials, local officials not ta

on july 8th this year, he says chad wolf told him that an intelligence notification regarding russian disinformation efforts should be "held" because it was unflattering to trump the official alleges and ongoing efforts -- chad wolf told him to producing intelligence assessment in russia these instructions originated from the white house, the white house national security adviser, robert o'brien this is a serving official in the trump administration he filed an official complaint which we could read. this is a remarkable thing he's being directed and it embarrasses the president, stop producing intelligence assessment about russia interferen interference i want to point out one aspect of this that i am not sure it is widely discussed it strikes me as quite bad homeland security intelligence report they're not the kind of thing that gets a full public airing they're not fully declassified and distributed for the public to read. maybe they sometimes get distributed to the public and maybe they don't it is reporting on the whistleblower complaint. these reports are what they really used

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it is a pleasure to introduce chad wolf, a fellow texan and a dedicated public servant. he is an individual i believe is eminently qualified to be the next secretary of homeland security. chad was born in jackson, mississippi. he made his way to the great state of texas and grew up in plano, texas. he began his career working for not one but two texas senators. hell after -- the hill after the september 11 attacks to protect our country from attacks. he became an early leader at the tsa, finishing out his first run -- in 2005.005 after over a decade in the private sector there, chad turned to the tsa as chief of staff in 2017 before becoming deputy chief of staff and eventually chief of staff at the department of homeland security. he has been the acting secretary since november 2019 and in that role, he has shown strong leadership. that leadership has been tested in particular by the protests that became ryan and the violence we have seen across the country. worsee was that violence than in portland oregon. attempted toem -- recount it -- recap he took the responsibility

and by the way, this last point, it's illegal for chad wolf to do that. chad wolf, who is a former lobbyist, speaking of this swamp, you know, no experience in homeland security or the military or police, he shuts down this intelligence memo. that violates the u.s. code. there's a specific -- it's 18 u.s.-c 595. it's against the law for him to do that. now, what would we have expected in a normal world? the chairman of the homeland security committee call a hearing. guess who is that? that's putin's boy ron johnson. >> oh, god. >> it is unbelievable how putin has weaseled his way into our politics through donald trump and his minions. >> you know, director brennan, i'm going to ask you to respond to claire here and let me just, she brought code there, let me just read you this headline about alexei navalny. chancellor angela merkel said he was a victim of attempted murder and the world would look to russia for answers. apparently the world looking for answers doesn't include the united states. how unprecedented is that? >> well, i think we've seen so much

we saw pompeo speaking in israel, the white house press secretary interacting with chad wolfe. something the committee is going to pursue? >> absolutely. we have to pursue this. it is government 101 that official resources should not be used for political purposes. here we need to hold to account the administration and anyone else who are using official resources as well as the time of white house employees and other government staff to put on this convention. that's clearly i don't think. in the lead-up to the election the american people need to understand exactly why this happened and how these resources were spent wrongly. >> congressman, we covered a lot with you. thank you so much. >> thank so much. >>> still ahead, what the new unemployment numbers don't tell us about this covid economy. you are watching msnbc. how about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. what if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks? smell clean? now they can! downy unstoppables in wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh way longer

acting dhs secretary chad wolf and his acting deputy are accused of ordering career officials to makere that threat assessments line up only with what the president says. the complaint was filed to the dhs inspector general by brian murphy, who used to oversee the intelligence division but got reassigned after if was noted his department got to complaints. the department generally does not comment on the specifics of oig referrals. we deny there's merits to mr. murphy's claim. murphy's attorney joins me right now. how are you doing, counselor? >> i'm good, chris, how are you? >> what is the meat of the allegation? how does your client know that briefings were changed to just mirror what the president wanted to be known and said. >> because they were conversations that he had with both chad wolf and ken cuccinelli. these were not hearsay allegations, they were direct conversations. brian murphy was in charge of the intelligence side of dhs and they were coming up with intelligence analysis that was not favorable to president trump or at least not favorable to what spin the administrati

secretary chad wolf. chad, chad, thank you.ron johnson, who is outstanding, i have to tell you. so respected within the beautiful halls of congress and i appreciate the great job you do, ron. i hope the people of wisconsin appreciate how good a senator -- do they have any idea? do they know how good he is? i think they do. you're never going to get not elected, ron. we will be very unhappy. one of the best. and also a young congressman that's been a warrior, true warrior, has been a fighter not only for some other very good causes but for this cause, because he was the first one to call me and say we have a problem and brian, i want to thank you. congressman, you have your first re-election and i think you're going to win it big. i hope you do. you deserve to. also, my former chief of staff, where's reince? reince, where is my reince? reince priebus. which shows that i definitely like this state because you are a very proud citizen of right here. you're still here. you never let, did you, huh? you never would leave. you've done

. >> as we continue to go around the horn here, we might hear from chad wolf sitting on the left side of the screen. has been monitoring all of the developments of the day. this really is topic a across the nation today. what does it seem like on the streets this afternoon? >> the president's visit here certainly reinvigorated the demonstrations and really change the dynamic. i'll give you a visual tour and show you how. the uc a few trump-penn's flags flying around here. you will see a lot of the black lives matter demonstrations. there is a sign on the backside of it right here that says hashtag out now. so it's taken on a very political dynamic out here with a lot of competing interests in the wake of the shootings. the court house here has always been a point of friction ever since jacob blake was shot and a lot of heated tempers, pushing and shoving and i don't mean to over elevate the extent of the tension of this particular location but it shows there is some tension because of that you have law enforcement at the ready, you have some 1500 national guardsmen in wisconsin, 500 o

in one complaint says the act secretary of heland security, that is chad wolf, told him to hold back on reports about russian disinformation campaigns, to stop providing assessments on the russian election threat and intead to focus on iran and china. murphy said he refused to comply in both days and forr democrat h.s. initials said there was consent pressure from the wh house not to talk about the murphy alleges he was asked by second in command to change intelligence reports, to downplay the threat of far rght white supremacists development and t to include reports on antifa. one former official said he doesn't believe it's a priority for the current d.h.s. to address the growing national supremacist reat. >> woodruff: i saw food the president formally nominated chad wolf to be the secretary of homeland security. amna, yohave been in touch with the people at cumeland ty today. what are they saying about all this? >> well, judy, they flatly deny the claims. they say theyelcome the result of any investigation. they say there's no truth to murphy's claims. they said the agency is work

i want to play rand paul and tucker carlson and chad wolf pushing thing insane conspiracy theory.. >> my feeling is, there is interstate criminal traffic being paid for across state lines. they flew here on a plane. they've all got fresh new clothes and they were paid to be here. it is a crime to do that, and it needs to be traced. the fbi needs to investigate. >> why haven't we seen the leaders of antifa and blm arrested and charged with conspiracy like the heads of mafia families were? >> this is something i talked to the a.g. personally about. i know they are working on it. the department of justice is also targeting and investigating the head of these organizations. >> i mean, that's -- take a step back. that is -- why is the state not arresting and prosecuting dissidents as if they were mafia, and then you have chad wolf saying i talked to the attorney general about it. >> yeah, it's a fundamental misunderstanding what antifa is. it's a series of things that -- it's a collection of people that don't have -- there's no monarch of antifa that you can go and arrest, and then it'

he's accusing acting dhs secretary chad wolf and ken cuccinelli of repeatedly directing officials to intelligence reports to line up with the president's misleading public comments. both wolf and cuccinelli tried to alter a report to downplay the threat posed by white supremacists whilestering the threat that leftist groups pose out of concern how the initial language would reflect on the president. this is according to documents that have been reviewed by cnn and a source familiar with the situation. i want to go to evan perez. who is this whistle-blower and what was he instructed to do. >> his name is brian murphy and he ran the homeland security intelligence section and what they do is they provide intelligence reports that get sent out to state and local governments to know what is happening across the country with regard to intelligence, the intelligence that they're getting. and one of the things that he says in this complaint that he's filed with the homeland security inspector general is that according to him chat wolf, ken kuchenely urged him to match what the president is s

there's a lot of questions now about chad wolf, ken cuccinelli, also acting deputy cash patel who hasally been running dni, from all the reporting i have. you knew him when he was up on the hill working for devin nunes. >> i did, when he worked for our committee for devin nunes, he was essentially nunes' hatchet man. when he went to the white house and later to the office of the director, working with the likes of rick grenell, you had two people who were just political hacks essentially running our intelligence agency from the very top. it was probably the most destructive period in the history of our intelligence agencies, at least the modern history. and that continues right now, withholding intelligence about what foreign powers, what the russians are doing in particular, to try to tip this election to donald trump. and this is what happens when you have a president who, as mattis is quoted as saying, has no moral compass. he surrounds himself with other people with no moral compass, willing to do his bidding, willing to suppress intelligence, willing to coerce analysts to write c

murphy to stop providing any intel on russian interference chad wolf dhs secretary having ken cuccinellidify intelligence to make it look like antifa was a threat. your thoughts on that? >> well, it should be chilling to every american, joy i mean, the role of the department of homeland security is to secure our election infrastructure to work with the 50 states to make sure that our elections are not subject to foreign attack, and in 2016 dhs worked with every one of those states to see if there were ways -- the senate intelligence committee reported out that russia was actually proving the voter rolls in some states this is not an exercise, joy russia is probably doing this again. if you have dhs changing intelligence assessments to meet the president's phony version of reality that puts the security of our elections at risk listen to that report and also the book, joy, look, it's all well and good to read about this in a book, but if jim mattis or any of these people know things that the american people need to know, they need to tell us you know, if not now, when if not you, then who

. >> can i ask you about this week's confirmation hearings for chad wolfe.e denied charges that he buried a department of homeland security security threat assessment that singled out racist extremists and russian interference because it would have reflected poorly upon president trump. when you left your position in counter-terrorism and threat -- what were you think as you were watching chad wolfe defend the handling of that issue. >> there are good people at the center taking this threat seriously. they are working very hard around the clock to try to keep your country safe. my criticism is not with what they are doing. my criticism is that the nature this threat requires that the leaders at the top clearly articulate fact, a threat. that we have a growing rise of white nationalists in our country, they like to carry out their ideology through violent means and they are increasingly recruiting people that align with conservative causes and grievances and if you educate, if you educate the american public that that is what's happening, that they're trying

this is a crucial time where truth can't be suppressed and where people like chad wolf at the head of must be called to account for suppression of the truth. >> okay, frank figliuzzi, thank you for weighing in on this. >>> and you mentioned covid, the numbers are staggering, more than 200,000 people dead. up next, remembering the lives lost to the pandemic. bering thes lost to the pandemic the rx, crafted by lexus. lease the 2020 rx 350 for $409 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >> techand your car., we're committed to taking care of you >> tech: we'll fix it right with no-contact service you can trust. >> tech: so if you have auto glass damage, stay safe with safelite. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ i'm a verizon engineer. and i'm part of the team building... ...a powerful 5g experience for america. it's 5g ultra wideband, and it's already available in parts of select cities. like los angeles. and in new york city. and it's rolling out in cities around the country. with massive capacity. it's like an eight-lane highway compared to a t

time telling us -- telling everyone, we should be concerned, and we've got a situation on our hands chad wolfn to me, that tells dhs employees, don't be concerned about blowing the whistle. come on out. you've got a guy that's unlawfully in his job. his orders to you may actually be unlawful and you may not be compelled to follow them we need more people like brian murphy at dhs to come out and tell us how the truth is being twisted and suppressed, and i predict we'll see more of that out of dhs and doj as we get closer and closer to the election >> and we need you to keep coming back and telling us the truth and sounding the alarm it is serious. thank you so much. >>> we've got to leave it there because, next, when home is deadlier than the battlefield. we'll take an in-depth look at why so many soldiers are dying around ft. hood this year. thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+/her2- met

also traveling with the president were attorney general william barr, homeland security secretary chad wolf and ron johnson. >> thank you very much for being here. ery much everybody for being here.

senior dhs official brian murphy says he was asked by chad wolf to stop providing intel reports on the threat of russia interference and instead focus on china and iran. instructions, he says, that originated from national security adviser robert o'brian. >> i have never even heard of this guy. i don't know who he is, and it's hearsay. i don't think there is anyone who has been tougher on russia. >> reporter: mark, what is your response to that? >> and if mr. o'brian wants to deny it, that's fine. we'll see what mr. wolf says. >> reporter: a dhs spokesperson says they flatly denied that there is any truth to the merits of mr. murphy's claim and that wolf and the agency are working to address all threats regardless of ideology. hallie jackson, nbc news washington. >>> in 60 seconds, i'm a performer. -always have been. -and always will be. never letting anything get in my way. not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. and certainly not arthritis. new voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief to help me keep moving. and it can help you too. feel the joy of movement with vo

and it is because he was raising alarms that chad wolf as well as the number two official in homelanduccinelli, instructed mr. murphy and other analysts in that intelligence office to downplay the threat of russian interference in the election. and instead focus on the threat of china as well as -- with iran which are more prone to criticize president trump. in addition, he also flagged the inspector general and it's in this whistleblower complaint that the leadership of homeland security, include playing wolf, directed him to downplay the threat of white supremacy. now that's alarming because last september, the department of homeland security issued a strategy framework acknowledging white nationalist extremists, as well as other domestic terrorists, as one of the top national security threats to the united states. however, for nearly a year, we have been waiting on the blueprint on how this department would prevent and combat that. and what mr. murphy is alleging is that that release has been withheld as a result of this prioritization on the part of homeland security leadership th

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whistle-blower complaint, the official, brian murphy, says the acting secretary of homeland security, chad wolfdelivered the order, telling him it specifically originated from the white house. murphy says he was instructed to instead start reporting on active tips from china and iran, which he believed posed a lesser threat, but it's something the president has been pushing. >> we started off with russia, why don't you start off with china? you think china's maybe a bigger threat? i think maybe it is, yo you'll have to figure it out. >> reporter: according to u.s. intelligence, while china would prefer to see trump lose, russia is actively trying to help him win, by spreading misinformation and denigrating joe biden. murphy says he was instructed to withhold an intelligence bulletin on russia's efforts and said it was improper to hold a vetted intelligence product for reasons of political embarrassment. now, murphy also says he was told to downplay the threat posed by violent white supremacists and to include in his reports information on violent left-wing groups to say matched more with the pr

brian murphy says acting homeland security secretary chad wolf delivered the order saying it came from the white house and murphy claims he was told to withhold an intelligence bulletin on russian efforts because it, quote, made the president look bad. the white house says murphy is disgruntled. >>> the death toll is rising from the historic wildfires on the west coast. a boy from oregon and his grandmother are among the victims. the governor says this could be the greatest loss of life and property from fire in state history. >>> and in northern california at least four people have died. thousands have fled their homes. one fire carved a 25-mile path of destruction. this morning, high winds and high heat fueling nearly 200 major fires on the west coast. some of them wiping out entire neighborhoods. new video near portland, oregon, showing rows of homes destroyed. these satellite images showing towns before and then after the fire. >> this isn't safe. >> oh, you can feel it. >> oh, my god, people, go. >> reporter: oregon's governor saying at least 35 large fires are burning across the

the chief of staff to acting secretary of homeland security chad wolf put the brakes on, writing, "please hold on sending this one out until you have a chance to speak to as1." as1 is acting secretary wolf. that was nearly two months ago and the bulletin still has not gone out. >> the president doesn't want congress or the american people informed about russian efforts to help his campaign. the withholding of this document is just the latest and most graphic evidence of that fundamental problem. >> reporter: a dhs spokesperson acknowledges the bulletin was withheld, telling abc news it "lacked the necessary context and evidence for broader dissemination." the spokesperson also notes that dhs did share three other reports on election security with state and local law enforcement. all of this comes after the director of national intelligence informed congress over the weekend that they would no longer provide in-person briefings on election security. when they made that announcement, they said they would continue to provide written reports, but tom, this obviously raises concerns about writ

accompanied by attorney general bill barr and homeland security chief chad wolf, they toured burned businesses thanked local law enforcement leaders who helped quell the unrest. >> you have done a fantastic job. >> reporter: but mr. trump made no mention of the police shooting of jacob blake that prompted much of the violence, and he did not meet with the blake family during today's visit. the president is under fire tonight for comparing excessive force by police to choking on the golf course. >> but they choke, just like in a golf tournament. they miss a three-foot putt. >> reporter: mr. trump has consistently tried to tie joe biden to the violence in u.s. cities. >> kenosha has been ravaged by anti-police and anti-american riots. >> reporter: last night he touted a strange and baseless claim that biden was being controlled by the people in the streets. >> people that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows, people that are-- >> reporter: what does that mean? that sounds like conspiracy theory. "dark shadows." what is that? >> no, they're people you have never heard of. th

secretary chad wolf's chief of staff writes, "please hold on sending this one until you have a chance to speak to wolf." tonight, wolf said the document didn't meet his standards. >> the report that you referenced was, at the end of the day, a very poorly written report. >> reporter: but the democrats are concerned the trump administration is block the flow of key intelligence on election election interference to benefit the presidents. >> the russians don't want me to be the nominee. >> reporter: the bulletin cited a forming about unfounded claims of biden's miscues. >> as you know, joe biden, he cesn't have a clue. >> reporter: as do their campaign commercials. >> joe biden is slipping. >> reporter: the russians have been spreading misinformation on facebook since the last election, and yesterday a fake news site created by a kremlin- backed group, discovered by the f.b.i., had several of its pages taken down. that intelligence bulletin also identified china and iran's efforts to criticize president trump. late today, the attorney general william barr, he claimed that the chinese we

. >> the acting secretary of homeland security chad wolf said on cnn, we don't have any authority to do that. that's what he specifically said. is he right? >> no. if there was a specific investigative danger that we detected some problem and risk. >> has he raised that possibility with you to send justice department law enforcement to polling places on election day november 3rd? >> no. >> as a precaution? >> no. but sometimes they have been in the past to enforce civil rights. wolf, we've done so in the past enforced civil rights to make sure that people were not being harassed and there was no suppression of vote against african-americans. . let's talk a little bit about foreign interference, russia specifically. the top elections official in the office of director of national intelligence revealed publicly last month that russia is working to help president trump get elected while both china and iran prefer joe biden to win. first of all, do you accept that russia is once again interfering in the u.s. presidential election? >> i accept that there is some preliminary activity that

secretary chad wolf, and acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration ken cuccinelli ordered intelligence assessments be changed to fit president trump's political rhetoric. >> russia, russia, russia, was a hoax. it was a total hoax. >> reporter: brian murphy, who oversaw the d.h.s. intelligence division until last august, is quoted in the complaint alleging that he was told to cease providing intelligence assessments on the threat of russian interference in the election and include reporting on the interference activities by china and iran. and as violence in cities like portland intensified this summer, murphy says he was told to modify intelligence on white supremacy in a manner that made the threat appear less severe, as well as include information on the prominence of violent left-wing groups and antifa. mark zaid is murphy's attorney: >> information pertaining to russia and the analysis in the intelligence reports was downplayed in order to ensure additional favorable information to president trump. which was something

by the students but they're not providing many details while acting homeland security secretary chad wolf says his department is blocking the. student visas for certain chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to china's military fusion strategy to prevent them from stealing and otherwise appropriating sensitive research china's foreign ministry is pushing back calling the actions outright political persecution and racial discrimination. we wouldn't be u.s. government took measures that damage their well gentlemen rights and interests of chinese if you don't start in the us it is outright political persecution and racial discrimination in seriously violated the human rights of chinese students studying there the u.s. should immediately start. suppressing chinese students who are under various excuses of the recent or chinese students studying abroad safeguarding the logic of it right in a court of law china reserves the right to make further responses to this matter. joining us now to discuss has been with co-host an investigative journalist spence juan and jeffrey tucker edito

hero but real life republican party hack and trump yes mad in the acting homeland security director chad wolf well he's under fire this week as n.b.c. news reports that the consulting firm or his wife works has been awarded more than $6000000.00 in contracts from the department of homeland security since september of 2018 and that although the company has a long history of federal contracts her company did not do work for d h s until after will become the will became the t.s.a. is cheap to step in 2017 now naturally chad deflected these accusations as chad's often do with they did to a spokesperson saying quote at no time in any of his positions since joining the department of homeland security has acting secretary will been involved in any awarding of contracts sorry chad sorry pentagon but actions my friends will always speak louder than words especially when it comes to. tax dollars are used and that my friends is why we're always watching my home. on a cd. you want to. see this you always stay i'll see you always. great to see this sleaze systemic deception show which. brings up the old.