you heard what jeh johnson had to say.und a poll of people asking how concerned they were about elections. they said we think federal is ok, we are concerned about state . are they right to be concerned about state security? leo: secretary johnson is right. the security for infrastructure is managed at the state level. each state decides what security measures they will take. there is federal guidance in that area but not all states follow the federal guidance. i do not think voters should be worried about the security of the system that we use, meaning the national system. there may be problems locally, as there usually are, but in terms of the integrity of a nationwide election, it is hard for an adversary cap nationwide impact. as you suggest, we have a decentralized election process. it sometimes can bite as, as it did with the hanging chads in 2000. can it be an advantage because there is not one central place you can tap into? leo: it is absolutely in advantage. an adversary would have to have physical access to a la

former homeland security secretary jeh johnson is with us on "andrea mitchell reports." here we go.iscover. i like your card, but i'm absolutely not paying an annual fee. discover has no annual fees. really? yeah. we just don't believe in them. oh nice. you would not believe how long i've been rehearsing that. no annual fee on any card. only from discover. vo: costs are rising.e squeeze. it's hard to keep up. in washington, one party is calling the shots and the middle class isn't being heard. we need a new congress that will cut taxes for the middle class, ensure coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and protect social security and medicare. vote for a democratic congress; for an economy that works for everyone. independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. so a and as if thatyour brwasn't bad enough,tals it. now your insurance won't replace it outright because of depreciation. if your insurance won't replace your car, what good is it? you'd be better off just taking your money and throwing it right into the harbor. i'm regret that. with new c

i report department of homestand security at the time jeh johnson flying down to nicaragua, el salvadorther country and telling people don't join a caravan, don't come to the united states. what did happen when the care advance came? they were allowed entry and they applied for asylum? >> i mean in, some cases, yes, and there are some issues that need to be solveded with asylum. >> correct. >> democrats would agree on that front. it does take too long. it should be approved earlier or decided earlier. what jeh johnson was doing in that case he went to the countries to address the root causes of why people were leaving. remember, people are leaving -- the democrats' position is people are leaving these countries because they are fleeing violence. they are fleeing terrible circumstances, and we are a country that has embraced that. >> that's an explanation, but that's not an answer that voters are looking for. >> symone, the caravan is well over two months away and it's intellectually dishonest as the president suggested and many of his supporters that all of the people in the caravan is

a jeh johnson, then secretary of , theand -- jeh johnson then homeland of sexual security and elections critical, john kelly -- and general kelly kept that and most of the fears dissipated. secretary nielsen is keeping the designation. it has been elevated to the level of nuclear power plants, waterways, banks, and financial institutions meaning if those things are attacked, what can we do to make them resilient and bring them back up to speed yet come -- speedy? -- speed? the eac was instrumental in the government coordination council with several meetings with dhs, we set as cochairs on the executive , and ase with them leslie was saying, we are light years ahead of where we were in 2016 in terms of getting information out. call, is not who should i it's how many times a day am i calling. dhs has done a good job of getting that information out. security, polling places, public relations, these are just some of the jobs these folks do on a daily basis. so i cannot talk about the election security veto, because i cannot get the volume to go. getideo, because i cannot the volume to go, b

first got the phone call , when the 50 secretaries of state were conference called with secretary jeh johnson, we were informed there was an attack that occurred and perhaps the federal government was considering creating a critical infrastructure designation for elections. we did not know what that meant. i think many red states and blue states, many states were opposed to the designation because we had no idea how it would affect our elections process. to say it was a rocky road in the beginning as far as communications, i think even dhs would agree to that. then, we learned that critical infrastructure designation was designated in january of 2017. we did not find out what that meant to us until june or july of 2017. we have since set up a coordinating council which i and others are members of. resources thatf the department of homeland security has provided to us. ,hings like penetration tests vulnerability assessments, cyber hygiene scans. in vermont, we do a weekly hygiene scan of our system through dhs currently. the communication level since last summer has increased, the summer of 20

as you remember, former department of homeland security jeh johnson said it is critical infrastructurevernment is sharing more threat information with state and local election committees and personnel, and helping them respond when attacks happened. we allocated more funding to protect the infrastructure, but that's over five years, we know according to dhs, the russians tried to penetrate all 50 states. the threat is massive. it comes back to a key point, christi, which is we need to focus on defense of our systems and deterrents of attacks, whether it be against election infrastructure or information warfare. >> good point. always appreciate you being here. >> thanks. >>> now to this fight in the classroom at maywood academy high school in california. a teacher and student got into a brutal fight during class and caught by cell phone camera. >> students in the class say the classmate was custody to leave because he wasn't in proper uniform. things got out of control. the student refused to leave, shouted racial slurs at the teacher who is black. then the student threw a basketball at

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we're going to talk to homeland security jeh johnson about security tactics.ll be right back. >> would you look at what's marching up? that's an invasion. that's not -- that's an invasion. you saw that barbed wire going up, that barbed wire. yes, sir, we have barbed wire going up. because you know what? we're not letting these people invade our country, we want them to come in. we want them to come in, but they have to come in legally. they have to come in legally. vo: you're feeling the squeeze. costs are rising. it's hard to keep up. in washington, one party is calling the shots and the middle class isn't being heard. we need a new congress that will cut taxes for the middle class, ensure coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and protect social security and medicare. vote for a democratic congress; for an economy that works for everyone. independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. singular focus, a distinct determination to do whatever it takes, and use every possible resource to fight cancer, and never lose sight of

reinterpretation of the settlement which included the fact that -- by the way, i agree with the secretary jeh johnson it was never contemplated the decision included children accompanied by their parents. all of a sudden reinterpretation said no, you cannot detain a child even with a parent. in order to enforce our law, and not engage in total catch and release, which is what ended up happening, you were really forced into a family separation. it's what we're trying to fix with the families act. i just want to continue to go on with what's happened since then. the detention with families intact under the obama administration actually had an effect. it went from 68,000 down to 40,000. after the flores reinterpretation in 2016, the number of people coming in here as family units because they realized, we get here, catch us and release us, and we stay, 77,857, 2017, 75,802. last year it is 107, 202 individuals. are you seeing a pattern here? last month in october, 23,121 individuals came to this country illegally, apprehended coming in as a family unit. i don't think anybody projects that's the level it

that is jeh j johnson's research for the intercept. was meeting with general run the number four and leaving a party that night and coming back. hillary clinton says in her autobiography that she was at the pool in cape cod and was surprised by the phone call. she also famously says, we helped them with the election and make a return of celaya -- zelaya moot. have now a situation where you have thousands of hondurans that are fleeing to the u.s. border. your response to the teargassing, which we're going to be talking about in our next segment of the migrants, and also mexico's incoming foreign minister, not the government of , sayingto, but amlo that they have agreed to wait, that the migrants should stay waiting on mexican soil as they wait to hear their appeals, but in return, the u.s. government should pay at least $20 billion for marshall plan-style programming for developing the country's? tear gas ise of the terrifying, as the presence of u.s. military at the border in violation of the 1878 posse, titus act. let's market as well