chris krebs was one of those. director wray was one of those. multiple times, and i'm thinking as far back as february 2020, you had these officials coming out and suggesting that we were seeing a different type of interference. we were seeing russia amplify this information that was already happening here inside the united states. you heard right before the election that it's not china. it's iran. that was the big new thing in this election cycle that iran was getting in the game but china not so much. so the reason i point that out is because this was not speculative. this is stuff that, you know, this is not just discovered after the election. the intelligence community was seeing this and reporting as it goes. the president had access to this information. he either refused to get briefed, in which case it's a dereliction of duty or he was aware of this and actively lying. that's the first thing that republicans as they start to look and assess this information, you need to understand that the big lie started well before election day. the sec

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worked in red states and blue states, that resulted in this high voter turnout, and, according to chris krebs who, for a significant period of time, was the head of the section of homeland security under the trump administration that was in charge of making sure we had safe elections, that both democrat and republican senators praised both while he was in his job and while he was unfortunately forced to resign from his job. but before he did that, he said it was the safest election in the history of america. that happened while we found new ways to expand, while we didn't require these notary publics to sign off, while we were able to use vote by mail and in some states register people early. and i kept hearing that word chaos. if i look at the chaos, some of it was because after the election was done and it was clear who won on the presidential level, it was lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit. that created the appearance of chaos. but it wasn't actually chaos. it was just votes being counted. and one of the cool things about this bill to get at some of the concerns raised to me by republica

commission on information disorder which should be kicking off here in a another week or two. >> chris krebsat the top of our interview today is a date that conspiracy theorists have circled on the calendar, march 4th. the house of representatives moved up a couple of votes last night so they wouldn't be there today. security is in place this time to hopefully prevent what happened on january 6th. >> yeah. and we can end this day, end this morning on "morning joe" with final thoughts pertaining to that. katty kay. >> look, i mean, the security is there, the fences have to stay up at least through today. everyone here in washington is desperate for them to come down. but as chris said, it's really hard to puncture that bubble of misinformation. we all have a role to play in trying to get the correct information out there while there are still people going down the hole of conspiracy theories, the fences have to stay up, at least for today. >> a lot of people ask questions about some of trump's biggest supporters that still stand by him to this day. the question is what does trump have on them

joining me to discuss the former director of the cyber director and agency chris krebs fired by president a decision that aged pretty well, chris. so biden talked about an exchange he had in his office back in 2011. take a listen. >> president bush had said i've looked into his eyes and saw his soul. i said looked in his eyes and i said i don't think you have a soul and he looked back at me and he said we understand each other. >> if you believe that story, what's the difference in tone that we're seeing between biden and boutin? >> at least from the head of state it's a night and day difference. it's talking, you know, very clearly about exchanges. it's talking about, you know, what might be to come. it's not coming out of the blue. it's not coming from cabinet heads. it's actually coming from the president of the united states. you get readouts of conversations. they are coming from the white house. >> i want to turn to the intelligence report on election security. there's a lot to it. the one way that russia tried to interfere, according to this report, was using cronies to influence t

i think chris krebs, who led the cyber structure and security agency, who did a superb job, and i've seen the results of his great work each day, indicated that based on evidence, based on data that the election was conducted with integrity and that the votes were not manipulated. >> so, basically, the loser of the election was just -- really just plain sour grapes and trying to sway the american people to believe that there was something inherently wrong with the election, is that correct? >> congressman, i focus on election security with our state, local, tribal territorial partners. that is what i am focused on. >> okay, so the president's echoes are baseless. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you very much. the chair recognizes the gentleman from mississippi, mr. guest, for five minutes. unmute yourself. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, the american people are deeply disturbed with the ongoing crisis along our southwest border. cvp numbers just in february encountered over 100,000 individuals, an increase of over 170% from the 36,687

>> his claims have been discredited by chris krebs from the department of homeland security formally. he said this was the most secure election ever. that there was no fraud that would have even come close to changing the outcome. and much of the fraud that has been reported and where people have been arrested were people trying to help donald trump. so, again, as long as you perpetuate this, and brianna, look at cpac over this weekend. that insurrection reunion they called it. they did a poll among members what the number one issue was for them. it wasn't abortion, it wasn't the second amendment, traditional conservative issuesmany it wasn't taxes or smaller government. it was election integrity. they believe donald trump is the lawful president. as long as they believe that it inspires others to take up arms against their government and that's why we have this capitol-like fortress. >> congressman eric swalwell, we'll be watching certainly the capitol tomorrow. thank you so much for being with us. >>> i want top listen to president biden speaking at the white house. >> -- and probab

that is almost exactly what former homeland security officials chris krebs told all of us right afterection. countries tried to influence the election. the attorney suggested krebs be taken out and shot. trump fired krebs instead. we're watching everything that is happening at the white house today or the green house, they're going to light it up green as our irish-american president celebrates st. patrick's day. we'll be talking about it on twitter. can you find me on there. >> thanks, scott. 6:49. as we've been telling you, moderna moving forward in the first stage of testing the covid-19 vaccine. they're testing children 6 months old to 12 years old. >> the kid trial is 6 months to 12 years old is going to take longer. you need to be more cautious and work down dose levels to find the right dose. >> the results from the study won't be out until the end of the year. but he hopes that the data for vaccinating young people 12 to 17 years old will be out by the summer. and hopes of vaccinating by the start of the new school year. again that full interview at 7:00 right after "today in

you may recall that is almost exactly what former homeland security chris krebs told all of us righttion. they tried to influence but didn't mess with the voting machines. this is counter to what trump was saying. they suggest that krebs be taken out and shot. trump fired krebs instead. we're watching everything on twitter. the first lady is traveling to day, pushing the stimulus plan. we'll be talking about that. you'll find me there. >> sounds good. thanks so much, scott. taking a live look at the san francisco skyline. the salesforce tower is closer to having a new company nearby. we're talking about a new building. it could change the skyline. supervisors yesterday approved what is called the parcel f project. it's on howard street. it will be 806 foot tall tower which you can see from the renderings here, will probably have a pretty major presence. the approval comes despite salesforce recently pulling out of a lease agreement for office space in that high-rise. >> we tun our coming back from covid-19 series. one year later, the bay area shut down due to the pandemic. traffic is

and chris krebs actually during the prior administration, did an exceptional job as well. we have a very strong public/private partnership through our cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, cisa, as it is commonly known. we're equipping hospital and local facilities, private sector facilities to improve their cyber hygiene, giving them actionable tips so that they can implement safeguards to best protect themselves. we dedicated at least $77 million in grants to urban areas to improve and strengthen their cyberhygiene. we have a whole series of measures across the spectrum by reason of the acute nature of the cybersecurity threat that we face. >> and last question, mr. secretary, is the homeland secure from the threat of domestic terrorism, particularly from white nationalists? >> jonathan, the homeland is secure, but let me state that the threat of domestic violent extremism is the greatest terrorism related threat that we face on the homeland now. and our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the tragic killings in the area surrounding atlanta. indepen

really was upset when we had a small team that was working well and our former president fired chris krebs the director because he spoke truth to power. we can't have any politics involved in this issue. it's very serious. i authored section 1745 of the fy 21 national defense authorization act and that requires cisa to pick up a structured assessment, very important. this assessment is in part intended to address whether cisa after personnel, material and facilities to achieve its mission. i support this review which is timely as press reports outlay that offenders are stretched thin to deal with the combination of solarwinds related malware and newly released microsoft exchange server vulnerabilities. i deeply disturbed and when i hear state and local governments, school systems and even hospitals may have bad actors on their network for months as they wait for a scarce incident response team to help them clean up the networks, other than nuclear weapons i believe that a cyber issue is going to really be maybe the next war where we have one and that in space and i think it's time that we

and i say that because i do think chris krebs and his team did the best job in the last four years but what can we do to stop the behavior and educate the american people about what their intent is? >> congressman, we have quite a number of tools in our tool box to address adverse actions by state actors. and certainly we evaluate each threat to the homeland based on the facts and the dynamics that it presents. and i know the national security adviser of the united states has spoken on this very subject. and that we have met on it as a government across the federal government. and i don't want to speak further to that. >> sure. >> value demings and i are headed into an intelligence committee hearing. val, i'm happy to yield to you if you want to get any questions in before you have to go. >> the chair recognizes if gentle lady from florida for the remaining time. >> thank you so much. i'm not sure how much time you have left, but secretary, thank you so much. let me just make one thing clear. the safety of our nation is our number one concern, and one of the things that i will not do,

i mean, the guy in charge of making sure that was the case, chris krebs, was on our program. on a lie. >> based on a total lie. look at all the things they're doing in georgia, curbing, you know, early voting, weekend voting, so there's no souls to the polls. they're just pulling out all the stops in an election that republican officials, the secretary of state, the governor, republican officials have certified and sworn on a stack of bibles was absolutely fair and free and the votes were counted three times and there was no problem. so, you know, irony left the building a couple years ago, so we can -- we know we don't have to worry about irony, but it's -- it is absurd. it's also a dicey proposition. you know, do you also end up deterring some of those donald trump republicans who were not always faithful voters and who you might catch in your net as you try to keep these undesirables from the polls. >> eugene robinson, robert gibbs, two of my favorite humans, thank you for spending some time with us today. >>> when we return, from masks to vaccines to variants, getting the

i think chris krebs, who led the cyber structure and security agency, who did a superb job, and i've seen the results of his great work each day, indicated that based on evidence, based on data that the election was conducted with integrity and that the votes were not manipulated. >> so, basically, the loser of the election was just -- really just plain sour grapes and trying to sway the american people to believe that there was something inherently wrong with the election, is that correct? >> congressman, i focus on election security with our state, local, tribal territorial partners. that is what i am focused on. >> okay, so the president's echoes are baseless. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you very much. the chair recognizes the gentleman from mississippi, mr. guest, for five minutes. unmute yourself. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, the american people are deeply disturbed with the ongoing crisis along our southwest border. cvp numbers just in february encountered over 100,000 individuals, an increase of over 170% from the 36,687

here's chris krebs, lifelong republican and former top cybersecurity official who oversaw the security>> there is no foreign power that is flipping votes. there is no domestic actor flipping votes. i did it right. we did it right. this was a secure election. >> trump's former a.g. remember him? bill barr. he declared there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the election. which senate majority mitch mcconnell reiterated on the senate floor just minutes before a mob stormed the capitol. watch. >> nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election. >> he wasn't alone. here's former republican presidential candidate mitt romney, later the very same night. >> the truth is that president-elect biden won the election. president trump lost. i've had that experience myself. it's no fun. scores of courts, the president's own attorney general, state election officials both republican and democrat have reached that unequivocal decision. >> but not even the deadly insurrection insp

i thought was off to a great start on chris krebs, i thought you did a good job there in a very shorttime. and i think there are some good for an example to look at. you are not estonia. we're much more complicated than estonia. but estonia has taken a very good holistic approach to cyber security and i think we can learn from some of our international partners on how to better integrate especially the security infrastructure which is in private hands. and to incentivize security measures that otherwise companies who are in position to make those investments are not reallyincentivized to do so . and i think that's the biggest area. we change one thing it would be the incentive structure such that companies that have and entities that have responsibility or critical transportation , healthcare, you name it infrastructure are prioritized as investments in security area. >> general mcmaster last question briefly. there's been some discussion about command-and-control and decision-making process. feeling the speed with which in nuclear weapons can be deployed , do you think defusing nucle