we're waiting for a news conference to begin in houston where authorities will give an update on a suspected killer of a prominent houston doctor. we'll bring that to you when it starts. we'll begin with the president himself who seems to be operating from a completely separate playbook than his own administration. yesterday he instructed the nation's top security chiefs to speak at the white house press briefing on election security. they were about as clear as they could be. russia was and is a big threat. >> our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. >> we acknowledge the threat. it is real, it is continuing. >> make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is both broad and deep. >> but mere hours later, the president went completely off the intel script at a rally in pennsylvania. >> in helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. we discussed everything. i had a great meeting.