-- [ overlapping speakers ] mike mccaul is a republican, he's from texas, highly respected. is he being manipulated, as well? >> i didn't say that he was. i said that the mid level folks that are writing reports on the ground, reporting on our effectiveness in the middle east on our policies, those reports have been modified and the people who have written reports have come forward and expressed that in public. mike mccaul is a straight shooting guy and a friend of mine, but i think he's heard the same story. i'm not saying that these reports are wrong that are coming out about russia. all i'm saying is, your question went to the point is, can you be an effective president if you have bad intelligence? well, mr. obama has been an effective president, some would say he hasn't, but he's had bad intelligence. >> i said if he's not listening to the intelligence community, can you be an effective president if you don't pay attention to their conclusions? >> let's go to the point. i don't care if it's russia, if it's the tooth fairy or the devil that provides this information. the

it's definitely a top priority for chairman michael mccaul mike bost. one is the state and local cyber protection act which clarifies and loss in the 50 states and strengthening the local crime-fighting act that would provide tools to state and local law enforcement, judges to go after cyber criminals so we think these assistance tools will go a long way. those are pending in the senate so we are trying to shake them loose over there. these are the bills we are trying to get not just in the lame-duck we will see if we can though. >> we have gotten a couple questions from twitter. i might go to your rich on the something is that cyber espionage as well pack discussion seems to suggest that the u.s. and americans are -- victims. >> i think everybody, large countries and even emerging economies are seeing the power of cyber and how the world has adopted it and how they work, but i'm play. the internet permeates every area of life. how you go after those national objectives within that perspective domain. some countries might seek to alter their economy. ot

lou: governor mccaul at. >> his wife's campaign basically as much money as her opponent raised to seend the money is why we call washington -- lou: governor mccaul is actually selected her and talk her into it. >> there's just no stop to the corruption we are seeing over and over again. lou: the clinton campaign just on the evidence that's been presented by wikileaks it seems to me should be absolutely either under indictment or dismissed by the american people are right. >> you know i honestly think that you're so much information out there and so many levels to it that i think what has to happen is we need to make it simple for people and the to understand. we are talking about thousands of pages coming out.lou: again n exposed as saying the candidate wanted people to be quote unquote unaware and compliant. first americans gave up reading and now they have given up apparently listening and looking as well. how do you overcome this? >> there's just so much information i. i think you have to make it bite sized simple and repeatable. lou: how about educating these people and getting th

. >> your boss, michael mccaul, said the rnc was hacked and then walked that back, wondering whether you are aware of specific chippy operatives who have been either killed or hacked, and whether your boss was really telling us the true story at the first point speak with i would say the point chairman mccaul was trying to make menus on cnn was the point of both political parties have been hacked, trying to make the point that this is bigger than that and just look at the motive, the time, what these hackers are doing to look at psychological warfare, could undermine the integrity and confidence of the entire election system, republican or democratic looking at motives of -- looking at voter registries. those of the motives that we've been briefed on and so the point chairman mccaul china make his both parties are being hacked. this needs to be a bipartisan issue. we cannot allow nation-states to target either political party, and it needs to be strong consequences when those actions take place. what ever the actor is come and so that's the point he was tried to make. >> do you think

>> guest: ing they said, chairman mccaul of the house homeland security committee said they were hacked. certainly they were hacked in the two previous presidential elections, so it wouldn't surprise me at all. >> we've reported that the republicans, that multiple republican organizations and individuals have been hacked. we report ared even somebody in the trump campaign got hacked. there's no evidence -- well, in fact, the only evidence that i know of offhand of hacked republican materials being made public is some e e-mails, i believe, belonging to or related to two people named lindsey graham, senator lindsey graham and senator john healthcare cane have a-- mccain, have appeared on the internet, and believe it or not, they're not friendly to donald trump. [laughter] >> guest: there does seem to be a pattern. >> on the other hand, in terms of large scale, i mean, i do believe that the republicans have been hacked in the sense probably for intelligence-gathering purposes. there's no evidence of anything like this sort of publication of material like is happening to the democracy. >> h

george s: --mike mccaul, he said the same thing. donald trump: i don't know what he said. george s: he told you that he thought the russians were behind it. donald trump: hacking is very interest. determine who did what. okay? during that interview, trump also repeated his controversial remarks about the death of an american muslim military hero killed in iraq... "had if i were president at that time, captain khan would be alive today." khans's father, khizr khan called trump's comments cruel. sot khizr khan "there's no sincerity in those remarks" and with only days to go, hillary clinton will be joined onstage with the person many believe to her strongest advoca,first s ly getting thter... inton and trump separated now by just 6 points in the latest c news/washington post national poll. tag: clinton's campaign worried that their voters may stay home, but in an optimistic move, they announced her election night location in ny, standing literally under a nominee mike pence will campaign in fort dodge today. this is a live look at pence's event in omaha, nebraska which start

texas congressman mike mccaul is with me. congressman, great to see you.ly working and preparing donald trump on foreign policy, right? >> on national security issues, foreign policy. >> how did he do? >> he understands it. he understands hillary is the architect of the failed foreign policy. that destabilized a iraq and syria and northern africa and libya. it caused so much chaos in the region, and it's led to hundreds of thousands of people being killed and millions of people being displaced. everything she has touched in the foreign policy setting has turned into a disaster, whether it be the lack of staffs of forces in iraq. we saw what happened. al qaeda and iraq became isis. neil: you always hear these stories, trump doesn't care and he doesn't listen to advice. >> he listened to this. he realized she created the vacuums. he understands with she has the reset button with mr. putin. that didn't work out too well. stick to those issues, stick to the kinds of things people want to know about non-personal attacks. >> stick to her. stick to how she has fa

do you accept what mike mccaul is saying? if you do, why doesn't trump?think i accept what that he is describing is very accurate. he has had the briefings. he has briefed donald trump. mike and i have been in some of the same meetings with mr. trump. mr. trump hasn't had the full benefit and experience of the briefings. what the dni has come out and said is, number one, we believe or we're confident that this is a russian hack. most likely it was directed by the highest levels of the russian government. the third point that they make is there have been other hacks going on against our electoral system, the electoral process and systems in the various states. they do not know who has conducted those attacks. and perhaps most importantly, our two final points that don't get a lot of attention. they haven't said exactly what the objective of these russian attacks or other state actors may be, what kind of outcome are they going towards and trying to achieve. and the other thing that, you know, i am surprised, you know, joe biden a couple weeks ago hinted th

we thank house homeland security chairman michael mccaul and his staff for helping ena asa and b secure this venue. he could not be here today but i wanted to express our appreciationship shi appreciation. i'd like that thank the former deputy national security advisor for combatting terrorism in the white house who will be moderating our panel discussion following director clapper's remarks. moderating a panel discussion with domestic security leaders from the public and private sector a bit later on. juan, we are so pleased to have you leading this important discussion, thanks for being here. putting together such a great lineup of topics and speakers is a team effort and i cannot say enough about our teammate in today's event, bens. it has been a pleasure to work the general and his team at bens on the development of this event. they have been colleagues and partners in every sense of the words and i thank them for their dedication and professionalism. as nonprofit public/private organizations, ensa and bens share a similar vision, a close partnership between the private sector and g

. >> thank you and thank you. [ applause ] >>> and now please welcome michael mccaul, chairman of the house homeland security committee, and jeff pegues, homeland security correspondent at buz. >> good morning. nice to be here, thank you for your time. trying to find this clock. it's right here. so we are on the clock. let's get right to it chairman mccaul, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> it's amazing and i wouldn't be surprised if you felt the same way that it's been 15 years since 9/11. first question, and i wanted to talk about what i think for a lot of people in this room may be obvious which is how this threat has evolved over the last 15 years, al qaeda, now isis. what are your thoughts on that? >> well the threat has changed. people ask me are we safer. i would say we are not safer, but the threat has evolved into a different kind of threat. i think pre-9/11 we were looking at bin laden who had a primitive form of communication. caves in cure yours. people asked the difference between al qaeda and isis, bin laden and baghdadi. the difference is really the internet the

. >>> now house homeland security chairman michael mccaul of texas on counterterrorism strategy against slaus extremist groups. he talked about the internet and social media use by extremist groups. this is about an hour.

. >> brett, your boss, michael mccaul, said the rnc was hacked and then walked that back. i'm wondering whether you're aware of specific gop operatives who have been either probed or hacked, and whether your boss was really telling us the true story at the first point. >> i would say this. the point that chairman mccall was trying to make when he was on cnn, the point that both political parties have been hacked, trying to make the point that this is bigger than that and you have to look at the motives behind what these hacker groups are doing, looking at the psychological warfare, trying to undermine the integrity of the entire system, looking at harvesting americans' personally identifiable information, looking at voter registries. those are the motives we've been briefed on. the both he was trying to make is both parties are being hacked, this wneeds to be a bipartisan issue and there needs to be strong consequences when those actions take place, whatever the actor is. and so that's the point my boss was trying to make. >> do you think republicans are equally vulnerable

chairman mccaul is the chairman of the house committee on homeland security. he's been a representative of texas's 10th district for six terms if that's right but prior to that you have extensive experience in national security. he was the chief of counterterrorism in national security in the u.s. attorney's office in the western district of texas and served as texas deputy attorney general under the current u.s. senator john cornyn so today we have a lot to talk about, there's a lot in the news and a lot of things we want to cover but today the chairman and the committee have released this report. a national strategy to win the war against slaus terror. maybe you'd like to take a couple minutes for our audience and lay out the ideas that are contained herein. there are copies of the report outside for you folks to take afterwards. >> there are a lot of familiar faces in the room. i want to thank my staff, miles, jake, katie who were instrumental in putting this document together, we've really been working on this for the last three months very intensively and