security of our 2018 midterm elections. protecting the elections required a broad approach, led by the department of homeland security, that included contributions from the department of defense, and many other partners. our sub subcommittee, in collaboration with the homeland security committee have been active in improving the issue of cooperation between the two departments. in this year's fiscal year 19, the national defense authorization act we established a pilot program that allows the d.o.d. to provide technical cyber security personnel to the department of homeland security, in order to enhance security and resiliency of critical infrastructure. i look forward to hearing the status of this pilot program at this hearing. also, in this year's ndaa, we created a national security artificial intelligence commission that will be important in identifying the impact ai will have in the cyber doe machblt as our adversaries continue to improve atz increasing speeds we must continue to grow our acts to defend against these threats. i believe we will only be successful if the u.s. can leverage the capabilities and authorities

recognize you for any opening remarks. >> chairwoman, interagency coordination of cyber security at the department of homeland security and at the department of defense, last night after years of debate and negotiation, congress sent hr 3359 the cyber security and infrastructure security agency act to the president's desk. this bipartisan legislation confirms that once again, they intend for dhs to be the primary federal civilian interface with the private sector on cyber security. i look forward to working with dhs to help the cyber security and infrastructure security agency, mature into an operational component, and develop the capabilities needed to meet the challenges ahead, from securing election infrastructure to protecting the grid. the department of defense will be an integral partner, at dhs carrying out its mission to help secure civilian networks, i understand that the dod and dhs recently signed an agreement clarifying how they will coordinate their cyber activities. although i have not seen that agreement i am hopeful that it will provide clarity for the apartments -- departments roles and respo

15 years ago, two years after 9/11, the department of homeland security was created. we will get the name changed hopefully in a couple of weeks. our responsibility is coordinating federal efforts to protect critical infrastructure. two years ago when the russians with the to interfere 2016 election, that was a galvanizing moment. theorically up to then, american public had been thinking about cyber security from an intellectual property perspective, from a financial crime perspective. that was the first time across government and the public that we recognize cyber security could be used to destabilize government. as a result, the department of homeland security designated elections a critical infrastructure subsection. there were some challenges in the partnerships. but in terms of where we are through want to walk three quick buckets. where we are today, the work we have made as a community over the last two years. the second is given we are three weeks out, 21 days from the midterm election, what do we think might happen? what are we seeing in the ecosystem? dhs rel

secure their networks. in terms of the progress we have made, two years ago, there was no good way for the department of homeland security to reach out and communicate and share threat intelligence with any state election official, whether it is the secretary of state or the election director for a large city or county. dhs did not have those mechanisms. would probably did not understand there was such a thing as the election assistance commission. there was not a strong relationship between the two. now, we have governance mechanisms, which is a bad bureaucracy way of saying we all work together closely now. two years ago, we did not. we had communications protocol. if i need to get information to a single state, i can do it quickly. if it is classified, if they have a clearance, we can get it to them. if it is actionable, we will deal with it later. we will get the information to them. we are providing assistance across the board. we have done about 35 vulnerability assessments for large jurisdiction states and counties. that is compared to about one prior to the 2016 election. again, there was not a strong re

we have a lot of resources at the department of homeland security. it has provided for us. the penetration test vulnerability assessments, here in vermont we actually do a weekly hygiene scan of our system through the vhs currently. the communication level since last summer has increased has increased tremendously. we will get real-time information as to any threats that may be on the horizon. and were constantly focused on focus on how we can do this. i can go into that detail. i'm sure you can ask. all about the different things we head in place. >> a lot of the issue that you're talking about.ot in the new aspects funded through some $380 million in federal funding that has gone out through the help america vote act. they've about $3 million worth of those funds. how did you choose to use them.un >> let's talk about that $380 million. i was working with senator leahy. is left over money from 2002. and it was the remaining portion of the $3.9 billion that were handed out or approved back in 2002. this is money that we knew in many of the secretaries were putting our congre

detecting a broad approach, led by the department of homeland security, that included contributions for the department of defense, and their partners. are subcommittee, in collaboration with homeland security have been active in addressing and improving cooperation between the two departments. in this year's fiscal year, 19 technical cyber r e -- cyber security. and resiliency of critical infrastructure. we look forward to hearing the status of this program. we had security artificial intelligence commission, they will be identifying the impact that they have on a cyber domain. as the adversaries continued to in protest improve at a continuous speed, we must grow our abilities to defend against these. i believe that we will only be successful if we leverage the capabilities from the departments and agencies and the united approach. we must use resources on overlapping efforts, make sure that we are using our resources sensibly. both agencies here today have made great strides in building cyber capabilities over the last few years. to build upon that progress, i firmly believe we need to

chairman ratcliff for holding the hearing for interagency cyber security activities at the department of homeland security and at the department of defense. last night after years of debate and negotiations, congress sent hr-3359 the cyber security and infrastructure to the president's desk. i look forward to working with dhs to help the infrastructure security agency mature into an operational component and develop the capabilities needed for the challenges ahead. from securing infrastructure to protecting the grid. the department of defense will be an integral partner at dhs, carries out its mission to help secure civilian networks. i understand that dod and dhs recently signed an agreement clarifying how they will coordinate certain cyber activities. although i've not seen that agreement, i am hopeful it will provide clarity for the roles and responsibilities. i look forward to reviewing the agreement and ask it be submitted to our committee as soon as possible. moving forward, the success of dod and dhs's collaboration rests on whether the following three things happen, one, dod and dhs must implement

the department of homeland security was established. my organization was established as a physical security organization. cybersecurity at the time was a very small piece of the pie. the stories i have heard in the development of the legislation, it was a bit of a fight on cybersecurity and whether it actually deserved a role just in general given the understanding of the threat profile. so the department was established. my organization was established. that brings us forward to 2016. 2016, about this time last year, maybe a little earlier, the russians attempted and in some cases interfered with our presidential election, particularly on the social media side. that was a three-part, well coordinated campaign attempting to hack into our nation's election infrastructure, the voting systems. one is the hacking and leaking across political campaigns. the third is this information operation. once again, we're in a position where we had intelligence. we were trying to stitch together the response. but we didn't have the relationships to effe

supreme court has recognized, and it's well settled that that's within the authority of the department of homeland security, and there are regulations promulgated under administrations of both parties that have recognized that this is a legitimate exercise of the broad authority conferred in the department of homeland security, and so this is a lawful program and as has been held by judges in the john -- in the eastern district that's another reason why their decision is invalid. >> let's say i agree that daca is legal and agree that these roving explanations in the past two years are not entirely consistent, kind of a constantly moving target. tell me how i get around the supreme court's case, i call it ble, which has some trick language for you to overcome. my main concern in this case in your position is how the ability. how did i get around bl sneh. >> that's the starting point with which i began. ble is the type of agency action that the court has found to be traditionally unreviewerable, and a decision that was made on a wholly discretionary basis. that's fundamentally different from what we have her

department of homeland security officials confirmed to cbs news hackers are still trying to get into voter registration databases and election networks. >> we continue to scour the globe for any sort of activity targeting our election infrastructure. >> reporter: tomorrow's

if you look at the statistics in 2015 the department of homeland security under the obama administrationowed 81% of persons who claimed asylum without showing any proof of that, into the country. in 2016 they allowed 88% basically the word got out this was a rubber stamp you could come to america in a caravan or large group and we would just allow you in whether you needed asylum or not. those days are over. we've got to fix that problem the president gets it and this is the first step necessary step i think to clean it up. trish: and you think about the asylum claim and how difficult it is and has been historically to make and you also think about people that are coming here, sir , from far away places so if you're coming, for example, from bangladesh or pakistan you have to get on the plane and get here , to make the asylum claim, which is actually kind of logistically i would think difficult because you need the right kind of visa in order to get on the plane in the first place very different than say illegally crossing a border opening. >> well that's right and the crisis clearly is

. >>> the department of homeland security issued a statement last night. saying our government agencies have been working to keeping our government agencies secure, writing in part, foreign actors, russia in particular, should continue to try to influence public sentiment and voter perceptions through actions of discord. >>> you can still do last-minute research on all the propositions that matter to you. we have all the details at abc7news.com/elections. abc 7 is your home for live

the department of homeland security insists there has been nothing out of the ordinary, which is a great lot of issues, but there always will be. we need to emphasize that. what we are seeing so far has not been truly disruptive or extraordinary. we've been keeping tabs on a whole range of issues. everything from what has been happening at the polling stations to the machines, all the way to what we really fear the most, and that is hacking into the systems by malicious actors. let's go through those one by one. this is what we're seeing at the polling stations across the country. i can't go state by state, because that would take too long, but we have seen long lines, especially in places like georgia. sometimes there simply aren't enough machines for the number of voters who have turned out. jesse jackson down in georgia today called it inhumane, how long the lines were and how few machines there were. in some places, there aren't enough ballots. in some places, the scanning machines are not working. as you mentioned, the department of homeland security looking at these issues, talking

. >> the flashpoint is the border wall and the department of homeland security republicans lose controlol of the house in january december standoff over the wall is how they view this as a last chance to secure wall funding and with that conversation of potential attachments and provisions to protect robert rmueller and emergency aid to help california and the count one - - carolinas recover after the wildfires and hurricanes the president is pushing $5 billion for the wall that he promised $26 million such a plan to pay for the wall on the multiyear basis but only for which congress budgets down the road is the farm billl and highway programs the house defeated legislation twice giving more money but also a path to citizenship for some dock of recipients m why some look at as amnesty is more important than amnesty is more important than the border wall. >>mpor they could enact temporay legislation or republicans could push for the stopgap measure some democrats would agree to the plan that is with the hamstringing democrats right away there is a lot of pressure on the president to make g

you alluded to the fact that we are under the department of homeland security, but in regards to the spending of money for budgets, we operate similar to d.o.d. i know when i was in -- toward the end of fiscal years, units were pretty good about spending their money and having accountability for, but there was a mentality that you had to spend everything you got or you wouldn't get additional money next year or the same amount of funding next year and we would see what we call fallout and that was money from higher commands dispersed to lower commands that more or less just needed to be spent. they didn't care what it was spent on, it just needed to be spent so they didn't any

undoubtedly, we see russia meddling in a lot of different places and more aggressive than in recent years. within my department, the department of homeland security we have a midterm election coming up here and we have coast guard cyber professionals working with the department of homeland security's hunt and incident response teams and working with our dod colleagues under u.s. cyber com to make sure that we have secure elections. i'm not going to touch the russian sub. that's not in my lane and that's not something they think i'm the appropriate person to speak to, and i think we see different behaviors out of russia and we continue to support the department where appropriate. >> i'm lou martinez from abc, sir. good to see you again. >> hi. >> during your remarks you made a pitch for additional funding. what ideally would you like to see? would you describe your force right now as strained under the current budget packages that you have? what more can or would you like to see, i guess, resource wise coming into the organization? >> what i think would be if i win without the sound bite would be stable, predictable funding on the capital front, a

. >> the next two weeks, the department of homeland security's budget expires. this is one more battle were going to have and it's going to happen in the next few weeks. >> laura: joni ernst was on one of the other shows last night or yesterday. i watched it last night. republican senator from iowa was basically saying we can't shut down this government for the wall. these are the republicans that we are dealing with here. steve scalise has done yeoman's work with everything he's been through to try to stand for the american people. they are not many who will. you have seen this. you and i sat here at this table, tom, and you said to me watch what happens. it's going to get worse and worse and worse than right now we have 5,000 people a week crossing the border illegally separate from the caravan. >> i have been at this game for 34 years and unfortunately everything arthur is coming true and i tell you had some great republican congressmen take people by the horns. it was a great bell. some of the republican student supported. no democrats did. it fixed the probl

midterms the department of homeland security has a poor record of keeping us safe from terrorism which is what it was created for instead they're guilty of ripping children from parents physical abuse sexual abuse racial profiling and murder but i wouldn't argue that they're nazis because that ice director has already done that for you and i think it's an insult to the brave men and women the border patrol or not to call law enforcement officers the nazis to simply enforcing laws enacted by congress. just following orders maybe a better defense instead of the defense that the nazis used at nuremberg would have been like. hey our haircuts are different compared to the nazis we have nothing against polish people and we never learned how to use i can be a militant movement against these cloud cops is being carried out by activists and by employees of these companies so what does marc benioff have to say in reply to this uprising at his company i'm sorry i'm actually scuba diving right now yes he said that. actually scuba diving does create an emergency when anybody mentions it you have to

this is to accommodate a requirement by the department of homeland security to have a buffer around buildings such as these. as you see, in this slide, the black box shows the property lines that would be adjusted in what is phase one of this legislation. and what is really great about this from the park perspective, it allows us to create an entrance to the park in that area that was formerly dem property and unify it. it's a pretty significant slope. to incorporate that into the playground and unify the site. where the legislation gets a little more complicated, it contemplates a possible phase 2. it does not require it, but it contemplates expansion of the dem building. mary ellen is here and can explain the need for that in a moment. but what this legislation does, if dem gets the approval and funding, it allows them to expand onto those two tennis courts you see that are covered in the blue property line. it also would require them, if and when that expansion goes forward, to compensate the recreation park department to the tune of $4 million, which you see in the amendment before you. s

and jeff pegues coming up on how the department of homeland security is trying to keep our elections safe. we want to show you some early estimates. in the state of west virginia, that race is leaning toward the democratic party in a re-election for senator joe manchin there, which is a big hold for the democrats in a state that gave donald trump his largest margin of victory in the 2016 election. let's take a look at indiana, in the hoosier state. that race is now leaning republican. this would be a republican pickup in the senate there. joe donnelly is the democratic incumbent there. and so the republicans feeling good. that means in indiana he failed to turn out the vote in indianapolis. but it's still early. in the state of mississippi, this would be a historic election, mike espy could be the first african american since reconstruction elected to the senate from mississippi. that is a toss-up in the state of mississippi there. and let's take a look at that house race we were talking about. kentucky 6. this is the race that will be a harbinger of whether the democrats are going to

border was, in fact, temporarily closed to cars and pedestrians monday morning as the department of homeland securitydent trump tweeted a picture of a new fence on the beach and said, "no climbers anymore." the department of homeland security believes most people in the caravan will not qualify for asylum based on new policies by the trump administration that preclude victims of domestic abuse and gang violence from qualifying. in a federal court in washington, d.c., the american civil liberties union argued the policy is inconsistent with international law and needs to be struck down. now migrants must present themselves at a port of entry, so they do, by the thousands, and wait sometimes for weeks for their case to be heard. ileana diaz, cbs news, los angeles. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," john dickerson talks with louisiana senator john kennedy and follows along as he takes his lessons on government to an unusual place. >>> reducing the carbon footprints of unwanted clothing. designer eileen fisher takes us on a tour of her factory where she buys back worn pieces and resells them. >>> and t

convince the spanish prime minister that the guy he had for this job or the director of the department of homeland security of spain that he's no good that he's too pro russian and the public opinion just doesn't want him holding that position and guess what this exceeded and eventually the spanish prime minister pointed another person into the job so if that is not the secret u.k. operation in spain saw a u.k. running the secret operation in spain if that's not meddling in other countries affairs then well what is. ok you go thanks very much for that which you can see down of there with all the details on that document was exposed by the hacking group anonymous but we did contact the foreign and commonwealth office asking for confirmation they funded the so-called integrity initiative we haven't had a reply if we do we'll let you know what they say. let's talk further now about this with security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles bridge charles good evening t. i don't know if you had much time to look at these documents they seem legitimate at first glance would you go along with that. yes i ha

according to the department of homeland security, they say the president has the broad authority to suspendrestrict the entry of aliens into the us if he determines it in the national interest. it's no surprise that many groups disagree with that. they say people have the right to apply for asylum under us law no matter how they do so as long as they do so in under one year, and we're set for a difficult call battle about this. chris, it could be said, this should come as no surprise given immigration was mentioned throughout the mid—term election campaign, particularly in light of the caravan of thousands of people making their way through central america, through mexico, towards the border. you're right, ben. we saw in rally after rally donald trump show his anger and frustration at immigration policies, the feeling it was not tough enough. he still continues to talk about building a wall. what is two this is an attempt to do is try to put in place a system that discourages people from illegally entering into the country. of course we've had the family separation policy, which the trump a

in a statement, the department of homeland security said: they insisted the president had the right tonge the rules because it was no national interest. but civil liberties groups say the policy be challenged in court. he absolutely doesn't have the authority from congress and in fact congress made it very clear that what the law provides in this country is that you can apply for asylum whether you are ata can apply for asylum whether you are at a port of entry or not at the port of entry. what he is doing is trying to erase the law but the stroke of a presidential pen. —— with the stroke. the president has raised many fears about a caravan of migrants slowly making their way from central america to the us border. many in the group are saying they are trying to escape poverty and persecution but the of america's midterm election donald trump betrayed them as invaders and the threat —— portrayed. betrayed them as invaders and the threat -- portrayed. a vote the democrats is a vote to liquidate america's borders and it is a vote to let mess, sentinel heron and other deadly drugs poor acr

in a statement, the department of homeland security said: hi, papi! hey insisted the president had the right to change the rules because it was in the national interest. but civil liberties groups say the policy will be challenged in court. he absolutely doesn't have the authority from congress — in fact, congress made it very clear that what the law provides in this country is that you can apply for asylum whether you're at a port of entry or not at a port of entry. what he's doing is trying to erase the law with the stroke of a presidential pen. the president has raised many fears about a caravan of migrants slowly making their way from central america to the us border. many in the group say they are trying to escape poverty and persecution, but ahead of america's midterm elections, donald trump portrayed them as invaders and a threat. a vote for democrats is a vote to liquidate america's borders and it's a vote to let meth, fentanyl, heroin and other deadly drugs pour across our borders. his angry rhetoric at political rallies led many opponents to

force for america, not just the federal government to recruit from or the department of defense or department of homeland security, but a work force that all of our industry can draw from? it's not just about the work force for cyber etch periods or for i.t. people or those people in the basement who keep things humming but you never want to talk to. it's also about educating throughout the environment. many incidents -- you know this. you probably all have -- get tested or at least get noticing from your i.t. department about phishing e-mails and not this click on things. our employees are the front line. they are the first line. we also need our accountants and our chief financial officers and our ceos to -- and our general counsel, our legal offices, to understand cybersecurity as well. the example i use is that if a ceo asks, are we safe yet, there are two choices. they can say yes and get fired when the first incident happens or s or they can say no and get fired then. it's a career choice. the challenge is, it's not the right question. the questions need to be more sophisticated around what are we doing to

but he was what the department of homeland security say. the broad authority to suspend or restrict the entry of aliens into the united states if he determines it to be in the national interest to do so. and their argument is that this is in the national interest, that they are facing a crisis with immigration. that is the argument that the president is putting forward. ultimately i do think we are going to end up in a court battle, and it could well go to the supreme court. now, in previous cases where they have been looking at issues like immigration, they have tended to side with the president. but of course, this is going to be another contentious issue about immigration. it is a subject that has dominated politics here, and certainly one that the president talked a huge amount during that mid—term election campaign. thank you very much indeed for that. we can speak to omarjadwat from the american civil liberties union.. the president says he has the authority to do this, he says it won't apply retrospectively but he will sign this new

so they asked the department of homeland security to go back to the white house to see if they reallythis to work with the white house, to grant u.s. military, grant the department of defense, additional authorities to perform law enforcement on u.s. soil. now, this is, of course, a long standing legal issue, whether or not u.s. forces can perform these functions in this situation. this is why the request was turned down. it's not clear whether or not the white house is considering granting those additional authorities. but again, over 8,000 u.s. troops staging, getting ready to deploy to the border. some of these forces dhs wanted to perform this law enforcement function. that request for now turned down by the pentagon. >> ryan browne, thanks for bringing us that breaking news. we appreciate it. quickly, just a comment from each one of you. you were shaking your head. you think that was the right move from the pentagon? >> i think it's the right move. they have to push back. this is a legal issue. not a political issue. and the defense department is doing the right thing pushing bac

. >> president trump signed a bill creating a new cyber security agency within the department of homeland security. "after words" he answered questions from reporters in the oval office. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for coming over so fast. this was a little uninspected and you do not expect to be here but it's important what were doing right now that you should be here and it should be covered. today is my great honor to sign the cyber security and infrastructure security agency act into law. the people behind me alongside of me have been working long and hard on this for years and i want to congratulate them. we are grateful to be joined by house majority leader, kevin mccarthy. majority leader. senator ron johnson is been fantastic ally in somebody who's doing and a terrible job and chairs the senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs and chairman michael who had a great victory in texas and he's in charge of the house committee in homeland security. michael, congratulations. >> thank you, sir. >> solid victory. i also want to thank secretary of homeland security

you can see that twitter feed from the us department of homeland security they also say pedestrian arereports of some scuffles and several hundred central american migrants were reported to have pushed past the blockade of mexican police put up you will recall that these people wa nt to you will recall that these people want to pressure the us to hear their asylum claims, many of them carrying banners saying things like we re carrying banners saying things like were not terminals, with are international workers. mostly men wear hearing in that group although some women with small children and there has been a presence by the us border patrol with helicopters overhead and so on. but around 5000 migrants you may recall camped in around the sports complex in mexico in recent weeks and they have made their way through mexico in this ca rava n their way through mexico in this caravan as it has been described and hoping to apply for asylum. but we know that donald trump is taking a ha rd know that donald trump is taking a hard line on this and so the latest as you can see from the us departm

bondi is under consideration for a few cabinet posts, including department of homeland security. sunlen, your reaction. that seems like probably a pretty good fit. >> there are a lot of names in the mix. we talk so much about staff departures and we can't forget the headache this causes for the other end of pennsylvania avenue, meaning senate republicans who have to confirm these posts. a lot of these really contentious, controversial fights. you're talking about homeland security, all these debates erupting about immigration, attorney general issues that go on in the justice department. and you're having senate republicans when it comes to that attorney general post anyone from lamar alexander, who can speak candidly and sometimes goes away from the party line and to john cornyn, close trump ally, saying we can't emergency a new attorney general getting confirmed who doesn't commit publicly to not interfering with the mueller probe. so whenever these confirmation fights are going on, it's going to be any indicated for senate republicans. fortunately, they should have a little big

. >> reporter: "60 minutes" "6tained a document from the department of homeland security that said, "d separation pagan nine months earlier than the administration acknowledged." and while the white house says more than 2,600 children were detained under the policy, "60 minutes" reported at least 5,000 teildren have been separated from their parents since the beginning of mr. trump's administration. former homeland security official scott shuchart, who served in the trump and obama ofministrations, told "60 minutes" that experts inside the government were not consulted. >> if they had come to you, what would your office have said? >> we would have advice on the way that needed to be done, on the record keeping that needed to be done, and our advice on that wasn't sought out, and when we tried to provide it, it was ignored. >> reporter: the department of homeland security issued a ftatement denying that it adopted a policy of separating families as a way to deter people from coming here illegally, but former attorney general jeff sessions had publicly said the policy was supposed to be

of job security these days. the president confirming what many have speculated, he's looking to make major changes. the two at the top of his list, apparently, chief of staff john kelly and department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. the president telling the daily caller he's looking at a lot of options as he contemplates his next purge but has not yet major a decision. this as cnn is learning from white house sources about the president's intense and bitter mood, which escalated after the mid terms with stumbles during his trip abroad, including that no-show at the world war i armistice ceremony punctuated by the first lady. the president caught off guard, sources telling us, and feeling backed into a corner. kaitlan collins, you're learning that president trump was furious over the first lady's move yesterday, making it look like he was a bossed around husband. >> reporter: that's right, jake. that's what the president is saying, because he feels these aides who don't report to him have thrust this internal staffing matter into public view and has dominated headlines now, something the president doesn't like. and he also feels that by this statement coming out, calling for t

of life. the homeland security secretary tweeted that the department of homeland security will lawlessness and will not hesitate to shut down port of entry for security reasons. theyto the fullest extent of the law anyone who destroys federal property or endangers the front line or violate the sovereignty. >> president trump is accusingt story about family separations of the u.s. border with mexico" the president wrote that 60 minutes knows that we have the exact same policy as the obama administration and that obama separated children from parents as did president bush. that is the policy. 60 minutes reported that the trump administration separated children from their parents for more time than most people realize, rolling out a pilot program in 2017. 60 minutes obtained a memo showing the goal of the family separations under the president's zero tolerance policy. this was to discourage immigrants from coming into the country. >>> in other news, if you used the transit berries to get to and from san francisco things should be okay this morning even the one of the boats is out of commission af

he spent some time at the department of homeland security looking for any signs of foreign interference in the election. jeff, we heard so much about this concern, about the russians and the chinese. what's happening tonight? >> well, yeah. one word we haven't talked about tonight is cyberattacks. you know, there has been this concern over the last couple of years since 2016 of the possibility of a cyberattack interfering with an election like this one. and so since 2016, the department of homeland security, fbi, intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies across this country, both state and local, have been working to secure these elections and so far today, what we are being told by d.h.s. officials, they have not seen an uptick in any scanning or probing activity related to elections systems across the country. so that's good news. they are also saying they are not seeing the same level of attempts at interference that they saw in 2016 from the russians. so that's good news as well. and so they have these command centers set up across the federal government looking for signs o

government find voices of the conference will include rob voice to the white e house cyber security advisor. the assistant secretary for the office of the department of homeland security and the chair of the information technology subcommittee, president obama's former top adviser on homeland security including cybersecuri cybersecurity, and mike rogers different than the one we have today for the former chairman of the house committee of intelligence and my successor at the department of justice is ths the assistant attorney general for national security. they will have representatives including australia cyber ambassador to new zealand's director general. jeff brown and at the head of the joint artificial intelligence center brand him a cor.i would encourage you to register we would love to see you out there. this is all available i am pleased to introduce bruce snyder with his provocative ideas. they tried to get advice but here we are and i'm not sure if i totally agree with the title of the book that we all agree there are a lot of vulnerabilities right now. he's going to discuss his book click here to kill everybody and probably tell you where to click

so the department of homeland security is giving reporters updates every three hours on their efforts to keep the elections secure. one of them just wrapped up a few minutes ago that started at noon eastern time. so the update is they are seeing some limited quote, shall use. but they say it has no indication of a foreign actor. and they have had some electronic issued in tennessee and they switched to paper ballot. and they saw some scanning of state systems. but they have not seen an uptick in activity and they discover it, quote, run-of-the- mill. >>> texas republican congressional candidate dan crenshaw is reacted for being mocked for having an eye during instead of demanding for an apology. >> i don't want to remand and apoll guy is holl call ti a tend to throw -- to throw r back and forth and demand apologize for neighbor hits us. >> he was a retired navy seal when deployed in afghanistan. he's going up against tom litton. davidson has not responded to the critics. >>> current mayor peterson is upset about a fly irrelevant that shows a photo of former vietnamese leader on one si