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morgan wright.n washgton committee judiciary before the senate judiciary committee in washington morgan wright. (ken) happening tonight... the orinda city county will discuss a potential gun storage ordinance. a similar ordinance was enacted in neighboring moraga back in february. there, failure to properly store firearms results in an infraction... with subsequent failures punishable by a fine of up to one thousand dollars. a similar ordinance could be enacted in orinda. tonight's discussion will also include gun sales regulations. the city council meets tonight at 7 o clock. (catherine) time now for a look at tonight's top local stories. the message came in on the social media site.. snap chat... a person threatening to kill as many as 30 students ... at valley view middle school on or near the last day of school. the site contacted the fbi and pleasant hill police - who worked quickly and with the help of outside law enforcement tracked down the student at his martinez home. police say they arres

joining me, cyber-security analyst morgan wright. welcome to the show. what is most of pressing here? is it safe warding our voting machines or is there some grander conspiracy to paralyze the united states by attacking our grid network? >> the russians don't back trump or clinton, they back chaos. they will do anything that creates chaos. there is a lot of good work being done out there through dhs. 800 counties and 50 states are part of it. kennedy: do you think the government has done a bad job of highlighting ways they enhanced cyber-security? >> the u.s. federal government gets a d for marketing. the multi state, elections infrastructure. all good programs dhs is running. these are free resources. they don't cost the states or counties knowing protect. the structure is one piece. the influence operations to influence our operations, that's another piece. that's where the federal government dropped the ball. they had to have facebook show them how to do it in the digital media space. kennedy: there also has not been a correlation made between russian

connell: when in rome -- melissa: here is morgan wright, digital government senior fellow and rebeccaeinrichs, senior military fellow. thank you for joining us. morgan, let me start with you. you said we need to get on an even playing field with the chinese. they're ahead of us to get to even playing field in terms of cybersecurity spending and such? >> absolutely. this is kind of a oxymoron. google backed out at project maven, 3100 employees, known wanted to do this, google didn't raise a fuss developing with china and military section. they're ahead of us. they're in a lot of institutions a lot of our universities. melissa: why would google want to work with them instead of the united states government? >> you dent get that much right to protest in china. i think there is a big difference between free speech and censored speech. you know, hypocritical to me. look, this is about defending the united states, giving us insights, actionable intelligence to make warfare saver. if it will be there, let's protect the innocent and make sure the bad guys are taken care of. this artificial in

is facing questions over whether it is doing enough to counteract moscow 's metal p joining now morgan wrighty and terrorism analyst. thank you for joining us. >> you bet. blake: i was in the room it was quite the scene. when the intelligence chiefs were lining up there, there was no mention of china. there was no mention of north korea. there is no mention of iran. it was russia, russia, russia. do you take from it that russia is the biggest cyber threat out there? >> i just put that out and i said we will be talking russia, russia, russia. exactly. russia has been doing this for hundred years. they are masters at this. they are masters at low intensity conflict in cyberspace. there he to influence elections. there is a difference between influence and interference. but they are here to influence and also into the energy grid. russia is looking for every advantage they can. a lot of people don't realize russia is less than half the size of the united states in terms of population. it is very important to russia that they have some kind of strategic advantage against the united states. blake: