blaze, miss hennessey, i would welcome your thoughts. and then, mr.rebs, i am going to give you 30 seconds in which to say whatever you want to say. secretary schedler. >> i mean, it's the old fashioned way. you get out there and you communicate with people, you get on the air waves, radio, tv and in the newspaper and you combat some of this. because i will be honest with you. i had an individual just this morning that called me or, excuse me, texted me from the previous election. and he was convinced that our machines were connected to the school internet system, because i guess it was plugged into a plug. i don't know. but i mean, it's those types of things, and in the every real day of secretary of state or election official across the country that we combat. it's just part of the job. i will tell you it has become on steroids in the last 24 months. >> as a member of congress, i would say i understand those concerns. >> yes, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> yeah. >> commissioner cortes. >> mr. chairman, i think it's really about being open and transparen

hennessey. >> to bolster credible institutions now. and so to not -- to sort of resist any temptations of partisanship so that there are those enduring, credible voices. the closer we get to the actual election date the higher the risk of politicization infecting that process becomes, which increases the importance of setting neutral standards now, both for the types of information that will be shared and also for response options. >> thank you. final words, mr. krebs? >> yes, sir. i think my four co-panelists said it quite well. a key tenet of countering information operations is shining a light on the activity. what we have ahead of us and we were just talking about it before the hearing today, we have coordination work we need to do in response playing, develop a playbook. if something pops up on social media, twitter, whatever it is, we get the call, we can work to refute the information and push it out through a clear, trusted channel to the american people so they can retain confidence in our election systems. >> i want to thank

thank you, john flannery and susan hennessey, i appreciate it. this is "cnn tonight." breaking news for you. >>> a not-guilty verdict tonight in the death of kate steinle, shot by an undocumented immigrant as she walked on san francisco's pier 13. her killing was a major theme of the trump campaign and a rallying cry for tougher immigration policy and the president is tweeting tonight, saying a disgraceful verdict in the kate steinle case. no wonder the people of our country are so angry with illegal immigration. much more thoon in just a moment. >>> and more breaking news on two huge stories. "the new york times" saying that the president pressed republicans to end the senate russia inquiry. the white house denying that. and the gop tax bill facing an ununcertain fate in the face of reports that it would ad $1 trillion to the debt. let's get to charles blow and ed martin and tara setmayer, former communications director for congressman dana rohrabacher. let's

miss hennessey, i just came in here the last part of your previous statement about making sure that -- i think you used the word impossible. making it so that our elections infrastructure is impossible to hack. noting the defcon report that came out and the fact that it states, by the end of defcon conference every paperless electronic voting machine was effectively breached in some manner, would the implementation of voting machines across the country with some form of an auditable paper record create that impossibility? >> to clarify, i was referring to impossible to hack as a goal of sort of the deterrence by denial model. i don't know that that's achievable, though we shouldn't make perfect the enemy of the good. there is a vast improvement that can be made. certainly we should want to move to a place in which systems are both auditable and also audited. not just to think about how to ensure that a built-in resiliency model so in the event that there is some form of compromise, some reason to doubt the outcomes, that we actually have a system in place to verify it and restore vote

susan hennessey, thank you very much. >>> joining me now, alice stewart, cnn political commentator and former ted cruz communications director. thank you for coming on in this holiday, we appreciate it. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. robert, i'll start with you. president trump went after fbi deputy director andrew mccabe over the weekend after word that he intends to require. he said, mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. he's not being forced out. what is the president trying to gain with this attack and is it effective, in your view? >> like so many of the slanderous attacks the president and his team have engaged in towards fbi officials, it's not only false, but more to the point, every one of these attacks, whether it's rod rosenstein, jeff sessions, andrew mccabe, sally yates, they have nothing to do with the fbi and the fbi's conduct. it has to do with donald trump trying to protect himself and his political team trying to protect him during the russian probe, because in the case of andrew mccabe, the president only turned his anger towards hi

stanford's former president, john hennessey, took home $1.2 million.ntrast janet napolitano, president of the public system, earned $570,000 that year. >>> happening today uber will fight its london ban in court. the san francisco-based ride hailing company appealing the decision. it was a move that effectively banned uber from that capital city. this legal battle comes one week ahead of the justice's decision whether it should qualify as a tech or transport company. >> an amazing finish to this year's dallas marathon as one runner helped another who collapsed, finish the race. >> so the woman who collapsed was on her way to victory when she fell during the final half mile. she helped her cross the finish line. there are questions whether she should be declared the winner after receiving help. organizers got together and after reviewing the race decided that she deserves the award. they say she was so far ahead of the competition she would have won even without the other runner's help. >> she looks like she's in terrible condition. i hate watching that

and susan hennessey, you first, you were formerly an attorney with the nsa, the national security agency. when you look at this plea, what does it tell you? what's the takeaway to you? >> i think sort of the initial thing is considering the range of exposure flynn had, right, we've seen really reports about a pretty astonishing range of potentially illegal conduct from not filling out his forms properly, violations, all the way over to the sort of alleged plot to kidnap a turkish cleric. you know, this is a pretty good plea deal, right, this is about six months in jail, $so 10,000. >> pretty good for him. which means it has to be pretty good for whoever he was agreeing to it with, right? >> exactly. i think what we can assume from this is just that he had a lot to give mueller that mueller thought was important if he's going to let flynn off this easily. >> phil mudd, you are nodding your head. >> absolutely. let's look at the timeline here. the first line out of the document talks about conversations going back, we know, to december 29th then flynn lying to federal officers in january.

. >>> joining us cnn national security legal analyst susan hennessey. thanks for being with us. the cnn reporting just this morning is the president is telling associates he thinks he's getting a letter from special counsel robert mueller clearing him in the russia probe. who questions here, does it work like that, and number two, from what we're seeing and hearing elsewhere in the investigation, does it seem likely that this is imminent? >> so first of all it doesn't usually work like that. you know, the government usually doesn't issue a letter exonerating someone. of course there are some exceptions. james comey issued a public statement regarding -- not pursuing charges against hillary clinton. so unlikely, not usual. but certainly, you know, anything is possible here. you know, we know that the president's attorney ty cobb from reporting has sort of set an expectation with the president that it's going to wrap up by the end of the year. you know, there really is not any indication of that and there's actually indication that the president's team is not all that well plugged

bring in susan hennessey our national security and legal analyst former national security agency attorney and nathan gonzalez, editor and publisher of inside elections. susan, legally let's talk about this. michael, about -- we're getting into stuff on mike flynn in a moment but about trump jr., and this wikileaks e-mail from someone that trump jr.'s attorney says we don't know who this michael ericsson guy is. the wikileaks outreach, even if the campaign did not respond you know looking at timing that manu reported that don, jr. tweeted about wikileaks the first time the same day the e-mail he doesn't recall went through. politically difficult for the team or legally some implications here? >> there's both potential and legal political implications. the most significant thing whether he was being honest with congress when he said he did not recall he didn't take further action. so certainly lying to congressional investigators, lying to the special counsel, as we've seen in mike flynn's case that has serious consequences. we've seen that trump jr. during this same period of time sort of

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this is susan hennessey's tweet from earlier. she's our legal analyst here on cnn. said "if trump or his team actually believed this, wouldn't they be working to bolster or at least not undermine mueller's legitimacy and credibility? why work to undercut the reputation of the guy you say is about to clear you?" so, what do you think, juliette? do you believe that? should trump have his supporters back off of mueller? >> well, i just think that the trump white house must be very nervous about what's about to unfold in the weeks ahead, because just this campaign by mueller is just like the past year. it begins with an assault on the facts. russia didn't hack the national security strategy today is shocking in the fact that it does not even mention that the russians attacked our own democracy. then there is an attack on the fact-seekers, the cia, the fbi. they're in disarray, they're horrible, they're political. and then there is an attack on the fact investigator, robert mueller. it's like in their playbook and consistent, right, with the fact that they actually don't

joining us is susan hennessey, a legal analyst, former lawyer at the national security agency.ou know, susan, first, your reaction to this news? >> right. so this is certainly incredibly significant for a lot of members of the trump team. it sort of is the slam dunk we've talked over the course of the week about whether or not it was clear that michael flynn was cooperating or not at this point. this really does kind of put the nail in the coffin that he is probably cooperating because he's only pleading to a single count of lying to the fbi twice. one of the things that's most significant in the charging documents that doj has released is the revelation that he did, in fact, ask russian ambassador sergey kislyak to delay the response to sanctions, that the sanctions that the obama administration had placed in response to russian election meddling. so really the accusation here is not just that he lied to the fbi but the underlying conduct is that mike flynn, you know, reached out to a hostile foreign adversary in a period of time in which president obama was president of the u

chairman of course there are a number of potential candidates you would think one could be john hennessey who has been a member of alphabet's board since 2004 again, the news here, eric schmidt stepping down as alphabet's executive chairman, instead now going to serve as a technical adviser to the company, melissa, back to you. >> josh, thanks, josh lipton in san francisco. >>> what does this mean for alphabet, car en >> i don't think a lot when you think about it, sergey brin and larry page are 44 now >> they're adults. >> they're grownups, right >> they're over the hill >> they've had some management shifts when they split into alphabet, and you had ruth po out there who was an excellent transition i don't think this will have a lasting effect >> i think we've already seen some transitions near the top there already. i think they've been very well denied obviously also when you brought ruth por in, this was seen as a major positive a place that at times in the past has been seen as less transparent has been getting more transparent i think if anything, google has a chance to increase th

men to the fred diction area, and the war epartment charged burnside there in fredericksburg, john hennessey works in the eadquarters, the chatham tructure there on the north side of the river, charged with expedited troops back up to northern virginia. of course, we know that the army defeated at y second manassas and the day after the battle burnside received orders to accompany the of his troops to alexandria to reinforce his brigades with the army. for his the blame defeat on the hesitation of john burnside o had written scathing letters regarding pope's incompetence, implying he to get out of his own troubles, letters that seemed to confirm porter's treachery. burnside again reached washington, where the president him to the white ouse, repeating his july offer to take command of the army. again, burnside declined, saying mcclellan was better suited, the emergency being the moving across y the river into maryland that qualifiedwas uniquely to restore the army's morale. left the president little hoice but to turn to george mcclellan once again. mcclellan, interestingly enough, met with b

brad: kind of the godfather of silicon valley, they have not 'snounced eric schmidt successor, but hennesseyme, would be a natural successor. emily: thank you very that's your week in tech. scarlet: thank you so much. have a great weekend, and enjoy the holidays. our trader looks at how to take advantage with a pair of options trades. this is bloomberg. ♪ julie: this is "bloomberg markets." it's time now for "options insight." joining me is the managing partner at equity on their investments. great to see you. we've been talking with a lot of forle about their outlook 2018. this year has been characterized, among other things, by very low volatility. are we finally going to see that change, and what will trigger it, if so? obviously, we saw historical levels of volatility in 2017. i think it will not be very hard to see that going higher in 2018. i think we will see higher interest rates. that alone will bring higher volatility. when we see the fed coming in this point in the cycle, we also see the stock market rally. julie: and of course, taxes another piece of it. we see employers coming o

the war department charged burnside there in fredericksburg, john hennessey works in the headquarters, the chatham structure there on the north side of the river, charged with getting mcclellan's troops expedited backup to know the virginia. of course, we know that the army was very badly defeated at second manassas and the day after the battle burnside received orders to accompany the remainder of his troops to alexandria to reinforce his battered brigades with the army. pope laid the blame for his defeat on the hesitation of john porter who had written burnside scathing letters regarding pope's incompetence, implying he wished pope to get out of his own troubles, letters that seemed to confirm porter's treachery. burnside again reached washington, where the president again summoned him to the white house, repeating his july offer to take command of the army. once again, burnside declined, saying mcclellan was better suited under this emergency the , emergency being the confederate army moving across the river into maryland that mcclellan was uniquely qualified to restore the army's

one potential candidate is john hennessey. >> josh, thank you very much that's big news in tech today back, the retail rush is on. two days of shopping left until christmas. we'll tell you which retailers are ready and which ones are not. >> look at shares of nike, one of the worst performers on the dow despite an earnings beat we'll talk about what's spooking investors. dow is down 20 ♪ a wealth of opportunities. that's the clarity you get from fidelity wealth management. straightforward advice, tailored recommendations, tax-efficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your wealth. fidelity wealth management. >>> it's the final countdown christmas just two days away malls bracing for last-minute shoppers courtney reagan is there live from the queens mall >> a lot of people here already, but just wait because tomorrow is really the big day. especially with christmas falling on a monday. stores becoming even bigger part of the equation. shopper track expects tomorrow, which is dubbed super saturday, will be the second busiest day of the season fo