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how is the jay johnson testimony resonating at the white house? >> reporter: quiet day at the white house. the president has left now. he's headed to iowa. he's got that rally coming up later tonight. that's something we'll be watching to see if and how he responds to a lot of conversations we have been having on this. you heard jay johnson talk about how they didn't want to politicize this particular line of inquiry or concern of theirs during the election. that's part of the reason they were cautious in making this public. prior to coming here this afternoon i was over on capitol hill and had a chance to talk with jay johnson. i said are you comfortable that the president is taking this threat of russian interference in the election in the future seriously enough. he said i think that's a question you'd have to ask him. i said i'm asking you. what do you think about this? he politely dodged the question. the president's press secretary has been asked that question and has said that he has not had that conversation yet with the president. that's

>> the former dhs secretary, jay johnson, was here, shep.he was asked many times why didn't you do more ahead of the election if you knew the russians were meddling to warn americans what may be coming? he said he started to put out a statement on october 7th was plenty. he said part of the statement said "the u.s. intelligence community, usic is confident the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from u.s. persons and institutions." the problem is that statement got almost no press attention because it was released the same day as another major october surprise. >> it did not get the public attention that it should have, frankly, because the same day the press was focused on the release of the access hollywood video. that's what made our news that day. >> johnson says that 2016 was nothing new for russia. they have a long history of dealing with the u.s. elections and so do other countries. they wouldn't say which one. shep? >> shepard: what did jay johnson say about the targeting of state election systems, peter? >>

jay johnson unequivocally agreed that russia was responsible.but the white house still can't quite get on board. >> there should be no fuzz on this whatsoever. the russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle. they did it with purpose. they did it with sophistication. they did it with overwhelming technical efforts, and it was an active measures campaign driven from the top of that government. >> it's pretty clear about what took place here, about russian involvement in efforts to hack information and to have an impact on american democracy. this is very real. it is growing. it is not new in that sense. but this was an aggressive action taken by the senior leadership inside of russia. >> in 2016, the russian government at the direction of vladimir putin himself orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. >> does president trump believe that the russian government interfered in the 2016 elections? >> i think i have not sat down and talked to him about that sp

not only did they not cooperate with jay johnson, they didn't turn the server over to the fbi.hink it is a little ironic to now criticize, some democrats are, jay johnson and jim comey and others for not giving enough in 2016 when you had a really good piece of evidence you didn't bother to turn over. >> martha: it's a head scratcher when you take a look at it from that perspective when you put yourself back there, during the election, he will murder the emails that were leaked, very embarrassing for john podesta, neera tanden. that was the main thing that democrats pegged their election laws on. they said because these emails were released, they call it the russian hacking, if remember the content, it was embarrassing. at the same time, they were asked by the fbi and the dhs to give it the servers up, let's figure out who is getting into them and how. why would they say no? why would they not want to cooperate? >> let me hazard a wild guess. there may be something else on that server they didn't want law enforcement to see? that is where you start. i don't like speculating but

today we'll hear testimony from jay johnson on how the u.s. government responded to this interference in our political affairs. what threats and what steps we took to protect our institutions to inform the public what was happening and to deter the russians from further meddling. by the middle of last summer, it was apparent the russians were not merely gathering information for intelligence purposes, but were intent on weaponizing it by dumping stolen e-mails into the domain and to damage the campaign of hillary clinton. as the ranking member of the house intelligence committee and part of the so-called gang of eight, i have been made aware of information concerning the russian hack, as had by counterpart in the senate dianne feinstein and other senior leadership. what we saw alarmed us and we believe it was incumbent on the administration to inform the american people what was going on. and so on the same day that donald trump was urging the russians to hack hillary clinton's e-mails, the senate and i wrote to then president obama urging tha

. >> homeland security secretary jay johnson joins me. if president trump is so concerned with alleged fake news, why did he try to pull one over on all of us yesterday? this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd in new york city. welcome to m 2r"mtp daily" and president trump seems to have gone 8 bit rogue from james comey. this is not the first time we have seen this. the president is stuck in a cycle of petty fights that seem to get worse in a crisis. he is stepping all over his own administration. he is making a mess of the russia issue. the governing issue is to feed the base. he still has affection for experience theories which he will talk about on twitter. the conflicts of interest are sitting out there on the sidelines and of course there is bipartisan concerns about the dysfunctional nature of the west wing. it's a mess. that seems to be getting worse. it feels as if there is a growing cross section of conservatives in addition the general public who seem to be fed up with the president's behav

that is the focus of former homeland security jay johnson's testimony. the house-senate intelligence community holds hearings into russian interference in the 2016 election. the former secretary saying there is no doubt in his mind about moscow's intention. >> the russian government for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. now the key question for the president and the congress is what are we going to do to protect the american people and their democracy from this kind of thing in the future? i'm pleased that this committee has undertaken this investigation. i welcome it. my sincere hope is that in bipartisan fashion, you find answers. >> julie: catherine herridge joins us now on capitol hill. >> i'm on the senate side where we've heard witnesses this morning from the fbi's counterintelligence division as well as homeland security, cyber security division and one of the main headlines this morning has focused on the summer of 2016 when they say russian entities began scanning election databases in nearly two dozen st

biggest threat to national security but now it would appear at least according to the you know jay johnson that they kind of said well we've got crowd strike we don't really need you know official help on this we don't need the f.b.i. or the there's this hurt their credibility and all of this well yeah i mean but i mean i was told by the democrats we're told very clearly that we are supposed to always always always always tell me everything and i mean if you tell that we should never question the department of homeland security and surveillance and everything else so if i if i follow the tried and true. blue democrat i would be saying i will. i don't understand it what i think is very interesting is just the turn of events and especially debbie wassermann troll two has had a rough road a little bit. as a rough road i think that's the way to put it but i think what was really interesting was that in response to johnson's testimony last night representative yesterday i did representative jackie spear from from california democrat who sits on the house committee intelligence committee dispute

jay johnson says that it came from the top of kremlin but in states did not take that seriously. kenneth moton is live with more on that. >> reporter: good evening rick, the election interference came under the watch of jay johnson and the senate commit einvestigating this matter says the goal is to make sure the feds work better with the states to stop it from happening again. >> blunt talk from the man once charged with keeping the homeland state. >> direction of putin himself orchestrat orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation that is a fact plain and simple. >> that is the latest official to tell the panel that russia meddled in the 2016 election. and the top priority stopping russians from getting into the election machines. >> i was concerned about what i was seeing then was on my front burner all throughout the preelection period to encourage the states to come in and seek our assistance. >> but johnson says that many states considered it this irissue declining federal assistance and an official said that networks in 21 states were possibly targeted by russian hackers. >>

plus, former homeland security chief jay johnson on capitol hill to testify on the russia investigation. and tropical storm cindy is expected to hit the u.s. mainland in a matter of hours. it's all happening now. we begin with a fox news alert, president trump holding a rally later today in iowa the day after republicans swept the special election to fill two vacant congressional seats, welcome to "happening now," our second hour. i'm jon scott. >> julie: i am julie banderas. republicans now celebrating two victories as we mentioned. the fight for georgia was the most expensive house campaign in u.s. history. president trump offering his congratulations and a series of tweets. the president will be leaving for cedar rapids in just a few hours where he will be touring a community college before tonight's big rally. >> iowa is an important part of not just this process but of our country, it's one of the big agricultural producers in the country and its huge industry there. today he isç going there to tak about agriculture, talk about technology and agriculture, how we can be more effici

that is the focus of former homeland security jay johnson's testimony. community holds hearings into russian interference in the 2016 election. the former secretary saying there is no doubt in his mind about moscow's intention. >> the russian government

after that, former homeland security jay johnson and homeland security committee member, kathleen rice. after that, we hear from florida senator marco rubio and nikki haley. >> members of congress strong current former administration officials for a day of national security policy discussions on capitol hill to, the conversation with house homeland security chair and homeland security secretary, john kelly. this is 35 minutes. >> good morning and welcome to the first capitol hill national security form. please panels and discussions will bring together policymakers affiliated with both parties to reestablish the importance of bipartisan thinking in washington when it comes to national security and foreign policy. as you know, the united states is constantly under threat from adversaries abroad. the desperate dictator north korea continues to defy international community by firing off ballistic missiles and brutalizing civilians, including americans. and now possibly prepare for another provocative nuclear test. a blood he civil war rages in syria, having already taken the lives of almo

favorite pastime on the potomac propagating russia gate former depend department of homeland security jay johnson ruffled some feathers during his testimony this week before the house intelligence committee when he declared that the d.n.c. refused refused to accept any help from the d.h.s.s. regarding those notorious hacks of last summer when representative peter king of new york asked if the d.n.c. reached out after they became aware of the hacks johnson stated to my disappointment not to my knowledge served the response i got was the f.b.i. had spoken to them they don't want our help they have crowd streak strike the cyber security firm but but but wait a minute i thought this was an attack on our very democracy i mean hillary clinton told us back in december that quote this is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation this is not just an attack on me in my campaign so why in the world would clinton and debbie wasserman schultz not go to the department of homeland security the f.b.i. and instead rely on a private firm like crowd strike well. our girl debbie fired back

the latest one, he's talking about the testimony of jay johnson yesterday. why did the democratic national committee turn down the offer to protect hacks. it's all a big democratic hoax. on the one hand, look, he's right. the dnc refused the help of dhs which they testified to yesterday. they didn't want the government coming in looking at their server. the president is right on that. jay johnson said he regretted that yesterday. on the other hand, continues to say it's all a hoax. mary kathryn, in another tweet, he talked about the russia hacks. he goes, if russia was working so hard on the 2016 election, you have talking about it and questioning whether it happened. >> this is a perfect example of how trump trips it up. i could be bashing pelosi, but i'm talking ability trump's tweets. when he does the public tweeting or privately talking to coats and rogers. he thinks he's not getting enough coverage. the russia investigation is a real story. he is channelling this understandable frustration that comey and others were telling him that he's not under inves

deaths in syria, iraq, and afghanistan before the attack. >>> former homeland security secretary jay johnson there is no doubt that russia was behind efforts to meddle in last year's election. johnson testified yesterday before the house intel committee while officials told lawmakers they do not know if russian hacking affected the election vote tallies where, they warn that cyber attacks are going to get worse before they get better. >>> we're tracking tropical storm cindy which just made landfall near the louisiana shoreline a short time ago. the storm expected to bring in flash flooding. heavy rainfall expected to produce up to a foot of rain in parts of the gulf coast with winds gusting from anywhere between 40 and 50 miles an hour. nbc's jay gray is live with us once again this morning in new orleans with a closer look at the weather down there. what are you seeing there? >> hey there, yasmin. well, luckily, this thing comes through in waves. we've seen that through early yesterday. not just here in new orleans, but all along the central gulf coast. we have seen some flooding here in ne

i have heard the statement and jay johnson made a very clear statement that he hammered out. fact, plain and simple. but show me those facts. all i have heard is those opinions of the facts from the people that are former officials that were all under president obama. and, so, there is no reason for this to be classified and there is further more the dnc didn't allow the fbi to go in and investigate their computers. there was an intermediate contractor there and the suspicion is growing in me about the credibility of some of the intelligence -- parts of the intelligence community, especially after james comey confessed to leaking very important documents to "the new york times." >> so let me just make this point. obviously, as you say evidence. it is evidence of course that all these officials have seen. but you say they're former under president obama. not all of them, congressman. some of president trump's administration have said the exact same thing. they have seen the intelligence and the prove. they are definitive. here are three of them. >> this was an aggressive actio

this is jay johnson. he's a democrat. what's -- i'm confused. >> jay johnson -- so was i. secretary johnson specifically referenced that he was told we were working with the firm crowd strike. we began working with the firm crowd strike once we learned the russians were on our network in april of 2016. so, he seemed to be referencing that he became aware that we have this intrusion in april when that phone call started coming in to our tech support department in the fall of 2015 unbeknownst to me. how is it that a -- that the fbi or dhs or any federal agency that was concerned about a foreign enemy state intruding on the networks of two political parties did not think it important enough to go higher than a tech support staff. when you have the chair of an organization briefed in a classified setting, it is astounding and outrageous. i assume that's why director comey and johnson said yesterday they wish they had taken it up or a little farther than they did. >> who is to blame, johnson or problem? >> i'm not pointing fingers at all. there was certainly more that should ha

there were questions for former homeland secretary jay johnson on why the obama administration didn't alert the american public sooner. once they detected russian activity last summer. >> why did we wait from july to october to make that statement? >> one of the candidates as you recall was predicting that the election was going to be rigged in some way. and, so, we were concerned that by making the statement, we might in and of itself be challenging the integrity of the election process. >> reporter: in the senate hearing, one member asked if donald trump was unwittingly acting as an agent by calling the election rigged. another if hillary clinton was. by as he put it, blaming her loss on things like hacking and fake news. >>> at this point there are five different investigations and that's why special counsel mueller has been meeting with members of the house and senate to try to work out what are the parameters for each of these so that the investigations don't interfere with each other. he also plans to meet soon with the acting director of the fbi, wolf, to talk about resources,

sits on the house committee intelligence committee disputed the testimony of the head of you know jay johnson as you know former head of the former head of the department. security and said she said there was a low of those levels staffer who was contacted and that was the extent of it. for a lower level staff so there's no they're already throwing some. low level staffer under the boss but on top of it they're now saying that the very intelligence people the very government the very people that they just that they said in they were administration that they said were so great that we have to trust implicitly that they didn't trust. their you know interesting ok now you have like two different versions ago saying remember contact representatives say well they just contacted someone lower. what do you make of all those first of all it doesn't really matter who contacted who if the d.n.c. really was concerned about the hacks i'm sure they were at that point that we stepped down right the whole point was well we've been exposed then they should have contacted the department of the government depa

you had the former homeland security chief, jay johnson, testifying there to a house panel that in no uncertain terms russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. >> in 2016, the russian government at the direction of vladimir putin himself orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. >> johnson joins the rest of the intelligence community who say russia is, in fact, behind the election hacking and this goes against what just happened at the white house 24 hours ago. we watched press secretary sean spicer as he would not say, definitively, that the president believes russia was behind this unprecedented infiltration. so let me bring in julie meyers wood, a former homeland security secretary and cnn national security analyst matt rosenberg. welcome to both of you. and matthew, first to you just on why do you think -- i mean, we heard all these different intel chiefs, both previous and current, saying, yes, indeed, it was russia who meddled. why is the white house refusing to admit this? >> look, i can't get

. >> jon: former homeland security secretary jay johnson yesterday testifying on why our voting systems in his view should be designated as critical infrastructure. the former secretary testified on subjects ranging from russian meddling in the election to the dnc rejecting government help to protect itself from cyber attacks. mr. johnson's testimony also raised questions about why election officials across the country refused federal cybersecurity help. should that change by next november? joining us now, organ rights, cybersecurity analyst and peter fellow. he offered the vast resources of the federal government to help these states protect their election systems and it sounds like nobody took him up on the offer. >> i think this issue demonstrates that lack of trust in the federal government. they view their sovereignty the same way the united states views its sovereignty with russia. when you look at some of the statements that came out after he testified, i think it was one of the national associations, they talked about the fact that they asked to jay johnson if there was a direct

new pressure to get the others being held home. >>> right now, former homeland security secretary jay johnsons speaking for the house intelligence committee. it's part of their investigation into russia's meddling in the presidential election. during johnson's remarks, he described the interactions obama administration had about the dangers the russian hacking posed. the senate intelligence committee is also holding a hearing now in their investigation. >>> and things on capitol hill could get tense over the next few days. that's because lawmakers are gearing up for another showdown over health care. >> after week of working behind closed doors, republican leaders are expected to release a draft of their news4's tracie potts has a look at what we know about the plan and how it could impact you. >> it's not through. >> reporter: hoping to avoid more angry town halls during the july 4th break, republicans are expected to unveil a draft of their health plan this week. >> it will speak for itself. it will be different. and take a different approach. >> reporter: democrats complain it's being craf

i have great respect for jay johnson.is should have been seen strictly through national security limbs. i'm afraid it was a pattern of the obama administration, paralysis by analysis. this is and was so serious, they had to have seen it that way and approached russia strongly. they chill to the response of this great threat. so, you know, at the end of the day, i think they should have acted and should have acted a lot stronger than they did. >> michael, let me ask you. if you look tat the bigger picture here, you had a candidate trump, then protect trump and now president trump. who was behind the hack or downplaying how serious the meddling was or down playing if russia was behind it or to blame. now you see, especially today coming out against president obama and not acting enough and implies this is a serious situation. can they both be true? don't pay attention to it, but obama didn't do enough about it? >> yeah, look, i don't think it's totally consistent with where the president's been. i recall he got a briefing s

but jay johnson, i think the scariest part about his comment was he basically said the u.s.nment didn't do enough to stop russia because there was a headline that was in the newspaper -- >> but the president has known about it, he decided to pretend it didn't happen and he still hasn't done anything about it. >> we don't know that. >> you don't know that he has, and the idea that he would do something and not say anything defies his entire record as president. >> chris, the president of the united states of america has come out -- i think it's very clear this white house has an understanding now in a real sense of what russia has been doing. you're saying they're not doing enough -- >> no, no, i'm saying i don't know what they're doing, there's no indication he's done anything. >> time out for one second. >> final word. >> you're saying the president doesn't come out and tell you what he's doing against russia which make what you're doing against russia completely ineffective because you're stelg them what you're doing, somehow he's letting us down. >> i'm not saying that. >

>> well, actually, jay johnson said that he was not privy early on to the hacking going on. it was much later in the process. i would say that that has some value, but it is not critical to the investigation, in my view. >> let's move to something else that is very critical on capitol hill and far beyond. the health care bill. republicans are trying to work through their version of the health care bill in the senate right now. if they would, it's a big if right now, if they get something through, are you prepared to stay in town over the weekend or through the recess to work through whatever they send over to the house side? >> i'm prepared to stay in town to vote against it. i am not going to be part of an effort to unwind 22 million americans who presently have health insurance. the tens of thousands of children with disabilities that have access to health care resources because of medicaid. the 15 million americans who are cancer survivors that, you know, rely on health insurance that is affordable in order to pursue their care. i'm here to make sure that they are protect

he's jay johnson testifying before the house and committee. >> in 2016, the russian government at the directions of vladimir putin himself orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. >> soma knew that was on the house side. then on the senate side current dhs officials says there's evidence that election-related systems in 21 states were targeted but no signs the hacks affected any votes. what more can you tell us about these investigations? >> they're starting to take shape after bob mueller spent the last couple of days on capitol hill and meeting with the committees moving forward on their own separate investigations. what they're trying to do is making sure the investigations can happen and not step on the toes of bob mueller's investigation. what we're learning is that the house intelligence committee, a republican worst political in that committee does not want to move forward in investigating witnesses that bob mueller is investigating. some people on the committee do not agree with that approach. on th

i thought it was interesting that jay johnson made the point that he made two efforts to try to helpout and protect security and was rebuffed both times. first by the dnc. he said he offered home lald security's assistance to the dnc when he learned of the hack and the dnc didn't accept the help. at that point, the fbi was investigating. and then when he has this conference call with state election officials on august 15th of last year, he wants to get their support for designating state voting systems. part of the critical infrastructure that would trigger beefed up federal protections, and he gets this blowback, pushback from the state election officials. they don't want it. they fear a federal takeover of the election process. and he put the idea on a back burner. so as a result, two efforts about at this secretary of homeland security are both rebuffed during this russian cyber attack. >> and one of the takeaways from the hearing, not just johnson's testimony but other witnesses, these are systems very distributed. they're different vendors. different localities and different sta

. >> president obama's homeland security secretary jay johnson is the latest official to tell the senate that russia did interfere in last year's presidential election. there were attempts to hack election systems in two dozen states. those orders came from the top. >> it was at the time direction of vladimir putin himself, orchestrated cyberattacks on our nation, a fact plain and simple. >> johnson pointed out that most stated turned down the federal government's offer to help with cyber security. he stopped short of saying weather the trump administration was involved or not. >> uber has been hit with several crisis in recent months including sexual harassment allegations and a criminal allegation by the department of justice. the loss of the ceo is the fourth top executive to resign in weeks. >> george clooney is not only a father and movie star, he sold his tequila brand for a million dollars. he founded it with partners four years ago. today the liquor giant says they'll buy it for $700 million up front and $300 million in performance. a billion for clooney. >> sit back and relax. a

. >> reporter: former homeland security secretary jay johnson testified before the house intelligence committee about russia's meddling in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. >> the russian government, at the direction of vladimir putin himself, orchestrated cyber attacks, for the purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact. >> reporter: johnson says the cyber intrusion did not alter votes, but the attacks will get worse. >> the key question is what are we going to do to protect the american people. >> reporter: the department of homeland security could better help states protect their systems. >> in my view, this was something that was sort of should have been done years before. >> reporter: the senate committee held a similar hearing with dhs, and fbi officials on the other side of the capitol today. senator mark warner called for more transparency from the agencies. >> to not put all americans on notice. not to have the number of states that were hacked into, or attempt to be hacked into still kept secret is, it's just crazy. >> reporter: the department of homeland securit

here is jay johnson, talking about one of the issues that may have made it hard. he was trying to alert everyone to the danger and here is what he said got in the way. >> we made the statement on october 7th and i'm glad we did, but it did not get the public attention that it should have, frankly. the same day the press was focused on the release of the access hollywood video. >> and katie you well remember how controversial the access hollywood tape was. he was making some salacious comments that dominated the headlines for awhile. it was that kind of thing, the normal, how do you not look at an issue like the "access hollywood tape. it was something that we could not easily see, but even though today, again, officials said that the russian hackers and perhaps other countries as well, but it was focused on russia today, are always trying to break into u.s. systems. the risk is real today, it was real in 2016. the other note able feature is that jay johnseh johnson said t not want them to have any access to their systems after the hack. they chose to say no to fed

but they also do appear suspicious enough to justify having a lawyer. >> so clint we've got jay johnson former homeland security secretary tomorrow if you had one line of question whag would you pursue with him. >> i'd want to know how early did they see -- specifically with johnson he knew about meddling with the electoral systems. i'd want to know how early were they on to the fact that there could be tampering both with machines or more relevant data rolls, voter rolls that what's russians were priking at so to see if the election could be rigged or there was fraud. they could push that as an flauns ryan. i'd like to know how early he knew how well was that i'd want to know how early were they on to the fact that there could be tampering both with machines or more relevant data rolls, voter rolls that what's russians were priking at so to see if the election could be rigged or there was fraud. they could push that as an flauns ryan. i'd like to know how early he knew how well was that integrated across the defendant did the intel share process the dhs. ? was it shared with the states

with james comey, followed today by their extensive interview with homeland security secretary jay johnson, followed by tonight, their classified session with mike rogers, tomorrow those same senators from the intelligence committee are going to get jeff sessions in person in open session. i don't personally know -- i don't have a personal relationship with any of the senators on the intelligence committee. if you do by charges send them health food. send them vitamins, some of those creepy green juices or something. everybody makes fun of congress and their easy work schedule, but right now at least those senators are really earning their keep. and we'll see a lot of that tomorrow. but we'll be right back tonight. all finished. umm... you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way, i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. you want this color over the whole house? he's happy.t's with him? your family's finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds eye voila skillet meals. and they only take 15 minutes to

>>>on wednesday former homeland security secretary jay johnson will testify on russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections, be speaking before the house intelligence committee. you'll be able to watch it live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on cspan 3. you can also watch online or stream on the cspan radio app. >> acting fbi director andrew mccabe is expected to brief lawmakers on the bureau's 2018 budget request. we have live coverage when that kicks off at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >>> on monday president trump held a meeting with technology executives, universe leaders, and administration officials on efforts to modernize government services and technology. notable attendees included the leaders of microsoft, amazon, apple, qualm com, masters, and oracle. here's a look. >>thank you so much. it's great to have you at the white house. and i just wanted to pass on word that otto warmbier has just passed away. he spent a year and a half in north korea, lot of bad things happened. but at least we got him home to be with his parents where they were so happy to see him even though

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but they also do appear suspicious enough to justify having a lawyer. >> so clint we've got jay johnsoneland security secretary tomorrow if you had one line of question whag would you pursue with him. >> i'd want to know how early did they see -- specifically with johnson he knew about meddling with the electoral systems. i'd want to know how early were they on to the fact that there could be tampering both with machines or more relevant data rolls, voter rolls that what's russians were priking at so to see if the election could be rigged or there was fraud. they could push that as an flauns ryan. i'd like to know how early he knew how well was that integrated across the defendant did the intel share process the dhs. ? was it shared with the states? how well was it known or did we figure it out only after the zbleeks phillip during the break i was thinking about the point you made. the president is going on the road. >> yeah. >> going to iowa. if you think about this in terms of risk and reward and exposure, he will probably be on twitter to have a few more things to say about. >> yeah.

look no further than the hearing he has with homeland security secretary, jay johnson. he expressed that in the hearing. here is a moment to remind viewers. >> why did it take the administration so long to make a public statement a foreign adversary was trying to influence the american election. the statement didn't come until october. why did we wait from july to october to make that statement? >> i'm going to disagree that there was some type of delay. this was a big decision and there were a lot of considerations that went into it. >> what are the considerations he knows. just after that. there is one candidate saying this election was going to be rigged against him. was politics a consideration? >> look, i think to some extent it was. >> is that okay? >> in retro spect you should say you can put it aside and do the right thing. the concern was it is politics, in the broader sense. one candidate saying the election was going to be rigged. russia trying to show doubt in the institutions and election. the more you play it up yourself, the more you feed exactly what the

what may be poised to happen as folks like jay johnson testifies and more information comes out about-looking threats. when congress brings these officials to testify, they may ask them whether it's the nsa or homeland security chief and the counterterrorism advisors. what are you guys doing? >> i want to ask hans nichols that question who is still over at the pentagon. hans, what are these guys doing? do we know? >> some indication from public testimony that they're preparing things. i think when we look at the potential that president donald trump would respond in some sort of cybercapacity against russia, you have to look at what is noncyberout there. a bill coursing through congress right now. the senate has approved increased sanctions and the house hasn't decided yet. donald trump will sign that into law and increase sanctions on russia. to get a sense on where he is on the noncyberfront, we have to look at how he responds to election. again, no one acknowledges cyber. remember that interview joe biden did on "meet the press." i hope we do it, if we do do something, you'll never

they are going to be talking to jay johnson and state election officials about whether or not there is evidence of russia trying to tamper with our election. the senate intelligence committee also holding a hearing that same day. we have learned from the white house that jared kushner will be traveling to jerusalem. he will be speaking with the israeli prime minister, with the palestinian authority trying to start those peace talks that the white house says could take some time. that process resuming as they try to determine what the next step is this week. >> thank you. >>> to start the week there are 60 million americans at risk of severe weather today. bill karins has our extreme weather forecast. >> the east coast has major airport delays. strong line of thunderstorms coming through. in the west we are talking about dangerous heat. yesterday was hot. today is even hotter. we do have the potential for record highs throughout areas of the west during the day today. this is a long duration event. so records potential today. vegas close. phoenix should be close. same with palm springs.

remains huddled behind closed doors after two congressional aides said they met confidentially with jay johnsonthe head of homeland security, as the committee examines the role russia played in last year's election. les? >> peter alexander, thank you. >>> the president facing legal challenges tonight, the business dealings prompted him of a lawsuit with conflicts of interest and violating the constitution. our justice correspondent pete williams has those details. >> reporter: adding new legal firepower to challenge president trump's worldwide business holdings, maryland and the district of colombia say he's violating the constitution's ban on public officials, receiving presents or payments from foreign sources. those provisions are walls their suit says against presidential corruption. >> and the one thing we know about president trump is he understands the value of walls. this is one he can't climb over and he can't dig underneath. >> reporter: the lawsuit says mr. trump markets his property as president and benefits from payments from foreign countries and holding event in trump tower, and

today jay johnson finds himself in the hot seat testifying on the russia probe for the first time. james comey before him johnson has already released excerpts of his news making testimony and it's clear he's not mincing words. he said in 2016 the russian government organized cyber attacks on our nation. cyber attacks are going get worse before they get better. johnson's declaration comes hours after this puzzling moment at the white house when press secretary sean spicer could not give an answer on the president's take on russian's -- russia's election meddling. >> does president trump believe that the russian government interfered in the 2016 elections? >> i think i have not sat down and talked with him about that specific thing. obviously we're dealing with a lot of other issues. >> the house is busy with johnson's testimony, the senate will be in a frenzy. republican leaders are expected to unveil their obamacare repeal and replace bill. it's a piece of legislation being crafted so secretly even some republicans have no idea what's in it. >> no one has been sharing it. we used

. >> reporter: former homeland security secretary jay johnson told the house intelligence committee to expect more russian cyber attacks. >> it's not just an academic exercise. it's a real threat. >> reporter: he said it was tricky. >> we were very concerned that we not be perceived as taking sides in the election, injecting ourselves into a very heated campaign. >> reporter: his department did alert the public and tried to help states after evidence revealed the russians were infiltrating voter registration bases. >> state election officials are very sensitive about what they perceived to be federal intrusion into their process. >> reporter: 36 states did accept help and dhs has designated an election infrastructure as critical. they said raising awareness about hackers' techniques could go a long way. on the other side of the capitol they pressed senators to identify states hit in 2016. >> i do not believe our country is made safer by holding this information back from the american public. >> i prefer not to go into the details in this forum, sir. >> reporter: dhs said there was no e

>> reporter: jim, shawn, that was from jay johnson, president obama's homeland security secretary.came during a somewhat surprising hearing today. why was that surprising? of course, the senate intelligence committee has been making a lot of news especially with the blockbuster james comey hearing, but this came because of something said by the vice chairman democrat mark warner, throughout the course of his opening remarks, warner noted that two states in the 2016 election, illinois and arizona acknowledged that they did have evidence that the russians had tried to access voter roles. let's be clear about this. this is the internet system that is used by election boards. voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet. repeatedly appear on capitol hill intelligence officials reveal that no election voting the hacking instances that they've been looking into with regard to the election. but warner said this. he said, that he wants the department of homeland security to release all and any information he has about additional states that may have had their election infor

. >>> russian meddling in the 2016 presidential contest, jay johnson says homeland security discoveredigns of russian hacking early last summer. he said the department offered to help the democratic national committee protect its computers buom hacking. >> i think it was unprecedented, the scale and the scope of what we saw them doing. and there had clearly been intrusions before by a number of state actors. >> the obama administration has been criticized for not sounding the alarm earlier. johnson says no votes were changed by the russian hacking. but data was stolen. he also said the state election systems, if they don't improve their security, those attacks could get worse. >>> the queen's husband, prince philip, is in the hospital, with an infection. the palace says he went in late last night as a precautionary measure. and his illness is related to a pre-existing condition. he turned 96 two weeks ago. queen elizabeth will continue her normal appearances. >>> having surgery can be especially stressful for children. so doctors at a united kingdom hospital teamed up with luxury car m

. >> not only did they not cooperate with jay johnson, they didn't turn the server over to the fbi, so it's a little ironic to now criticize as some democrats are, jay johnson and call me and others were not doing enough, they didn't bother to turn it over. >> bill: you also have, ned, the fact that this wasn't pursued until after election day, and he said yesterday we were notified, the story was blown out of the water. what should prevent you from letting the american people now the truth in the month that followed? >> i think it's interesting yesterday was jay johnson's testimony that here you have the obama administration thing that hey, dnc, we would like to actually help you figure out what the problem is with your service, with your database, and the dnc telling the fbi now. we are not going to hand over our database and service to you, so i think that it is interesting, i don't want to say that there was anything nefarious going on, but at the same time, i thought i was one of the more interesting parts of the testimony yesterday. it kind of raises questions why didn't you want

. >>> former home land security secretary jay johnson will testify before the house intelligence committee as part of its ongoing probe into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. johnson is expected to face questions about what his agency uncovered before the election, and whether those assessments have changed. the senate intelligence committee will hold a hearing on russia today. >>> police are investigating a deadly car crash on the county line between montgomery and bucks county. chopper three over county line and keith valley road in warrington where the two cars crashed a little after 10:00 o'clock last night. one person was killed, another was rushed to abington hospital, that second victim's condition isn't known right now. >>> new jersey authorities say hamilton township police officer thought to have been killed in the car crash actually died from a self inflict gunshot wound. mercer county officials say the officer was off-duty when its suv struck back of the van yesterday on the 2700 block of nottingham way in hamilton. the officer died at the scene, no one el

right now in washington, you're looking at jay johnson.e former secretary of homeland security under president obama. he is testifying right now before the house intelligence committee. again, these are live pictures. jay johnson served under president obama and his testimony focuses on how cyber attacks will get worse before they get better. he's also talking about russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. >>> back here at home, happening today in petaluma, the sonoma marin fair kicks off at the fairgrounds. the theme this year is great egg-spectation. foods, carnival rides and contests. and then on friday, the fair will host the world's ugliest dog competition. the fair runs through sunday, june 25th. >>> well, it is officially the first day of summer. >> yes. >> although it felt like the first week or two of summer. it will be a hot one again today. how to stay safe during the heat wave while using less electricity at the same time. >>> also giving tasers to san francisco police officers. that issue is up for co