we evolve this before the party in the working classes of the german democratic republic the state security apparatus of the g.d.r. will maintain a firm hold on the party flag we will defend our workers and farmers against all enemies and up hold the interests of the state and the socialist camp. all the enemies will be brought to justice but i find that the dish tops if you. have an insight from god i never doubted that his custody was justifiable and it was also justified from a medical perspective you know his health was repeatedly assessed to ensure that he was fit to remain in custody has a definite. total of seven experts were commissioned by the berlin regional court the defense and the public prosecutor's office. they refused to speak with most of them. he remained silent often for hours. it was not for nothing that he was known as a master of secrets. and misdemeanors when were you wounded. can still you tell me that. and where were you born. mr male you can remain silent that's fine it's like let's both be silent. we both want to return to mars so does that will be possible mr mil

state secretary for the ministry of state security he was caught off guard by the force of the protests. the east german state would have collapsed have the soviet occupation forces not proclaimed a state of emergency. such a situation could never be allowed to repeat itself. you have two minutes. to see if you can. last well can i do for you as much personal request. as soon as what lies ahead of us is a turbulent time. it's push comes to shove and our friends. can we still rely on the soviet union. yes that is the course headache of course. those soviet union will never abandon its old comrades in arms fire. but i meant more in the sense of nine hundred fifty three if this situation truly gets out of hand if it becomes a genuine emergency it would be reassuring to have the glorious soviet army behind us citizens if. you ask a very tricky question at age. yes it's a thing these days are long gone. those who we don't interfere as actively anymore. because it's going to handle any emergency. will especially with your training school and your property of experience with that you just. in

when i worked for state security in tehran for the kgb for many years a number of things happened iny time. in my post kgb life i recall the death of litvinenko, alexander, in london, who was poisoned by the russians and i know the reasons why.

security. our team has done an unbelievably thorough job. they have spoken to nearly all the affected states. they've interviewed high-level officials from the white house, the nsc, the department of homeland security, the fbi and other intelligence community agencies. they have secured and analyzed products, both raw and finished products. i say this with great confidence, it is clear that the russian government was looking for the vulnerabilities in our election system. and highlighted some key gaps. there's no evidence any vote was changed. russia attempted to penetrate 21 states. we know that eric's successful in penetrating at least one voter database. the department of homeland security alert estates, warnings did not provide enough information to go to the right person in every case. alerts were actionable they alerted officials but no clear reason for states to take more seriously were given. russia was trying to undermine the confidence our of our election system. were here to express concerns but also confidence in our state local governments. it's important to understand is that tom

security. it's safe to say our team has done a thorough job. i've spoken to nearly all affected states. they have interviewed numerous current, former, high-level officials from the white house of the nsc, the department of homeland security, the fbi and other intelligence community agencies. they have secured and analyzed countless products both raw and finished assessments. me say this with a great deal of confidence. it is clear the russian government was looking for the vulnerabilities in our election system. and highlighted some of the key gaps. there is no evidence that any vote was changed. russia attempted to penetrate 21 states. we know there were successful in penetrating at least one voter database. to the department of homeland security alert estates to the threats warnings did not provide enough information or go to the right person in every case. alerts were actionable they provided an ip address to professionals, but no clear reason for states to take this threat more seriously were given. russia was trying to undermine the confidence of our election system. we are here to

states. we know they were successful in penetrating at least one voter database. department of homeland security and the f.b.i. alerted states to the threat. the warnings did not provide enough information or go to the right person in err case. alerts were actionable. they provided malicious internet protocol i.p. address to i.t. professionals. but no clear reason for states to take this threat more seriously were given. russia was trying to undermine the confidence of our election system. we're here to express concerns, but also confidence in our state and local governments. now, i think what's important to understand is that tomorrow we will have an open hearing specifically on election security. and i'll be -- we'll be joined by four of our members who are taking the lead on the recommendations that we will post, i think they have -- maybe in the last five minutes gone out. but they will officially be public today. let me distinguish. we very much support state control of the election process. we think there are ways the federal government can support those states. but clearly we've got to ge

and we heard what states need to do to secure their election systems. the witness lineup today made clear of the decentralize systems at the state and local level. pair wd capability and resources at the federal level. we have to have a solid deterrent. a deterrent to activities like this in the future. any host still power that seeks to undermine the fundamental structures of our democracy, should be prepared to pay a hefty price m the close of this hearing includes chapter one of the committees investigation. we have shown through our work today that these issues go beyond party politics. we may disagree on some things but we agree that we need to take steps to make sure elections are secure. -- we now hand this over to the rules and the governor affairs committee to consider legislative approaches within the jurisdiction. i would like to take a moment to thank the committee staff for their work. the staff involved in this effort worked tirelessly with few days off over the last 14 months in a politically charged and demanding environment. they are tal

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and we heard what states need to do to secure their election systems. the witness lineup today made clear of the decentralize systems at the state and local level. pair wd capability and resources at the federal level. we have to have a solid deterrent. a deterrent to activities like this in the future. any host still power that seeks to undermine the fundamental structures of our democracy, should be prepared to pay a hefty price m the close of this hearing includes chapter one of the committees investigation. we have shown through our work today that these issues go beyond party politics. we may disagree on some things but we agree that we need to take steps to make sure elections are secure. -- we now hand this over to the rules and the governor affairs committee to consider legislative approaches within the jurisdiction. i would like to take a moment to thank the committee staff for their work. the staff involved in this effort worked tirelessly with few days off over the last 14 months in a politically charged and demanding environment. they are tal

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the priority had to be getting the states to come to us and seek our cyber security assistance. rather than make that designation, which i saw was going to be controversial at the time, i decided to put it aside and encourage them to come in and most states did. it so dhs would prioritize providing cyber security to the states. we talked about cyber doctrine. normnternational cyber is nationstates will not attack critical infrastructure. structureelection critical infrastructure, they get the protection of the international cyber norm. >> secretary nelson, eddie roundtable 42 years ago -- nielson, at a roundtable 42 days ago, i asked if dhs was prioritizing risk assessment for the states. have you received the request we made for a timetable for those assessments? sec. nielsen: we are prioritizing. states or9 that are localities that have been completed or in process. we've made the commitment to prioritize resources that any state or locality that request that, we will have that complete by the election. >> do you have a date for the assessment? >> we do not. >> would you commit

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billion in security assistance to israel, $500 million in cooperative missile defense funding and to support the overall foreign aid bill. further, we will ask lawmakers to cosponsor the united states/israel security assistance authorization act of 2018, bipartisan legislation just introduced by representatives ileana ros-lehtinen and ted deutch and senators marco rubio and chris coons. [applause] yeah, they deserve a lot of credit. this bill supports agreed-upon funding level, and it dramatically strengthens u.s. cooperation with israel in many areas including enhancing and expanding israeli-based, american war reserve stockpiles which the u.s. can share with israel in an emergency. >> this brings us to our second message for congress.

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the study states americans mainly value u.s.-german securityies, where germans focus on democratic values. perhaps these differin interests are what make transatlantic relations so complicated. brent: indeed. here is a reminder of our top stories. hackers have attacked in germany's foreign and defense ministries and stolen data. the hackers are aeged to belong to the russian group accused of attacking the democratic national committee ahead of the u.s. presidential election in 2016. the international olympic committee has reinstated russia's olympic never ship. this comes after the remaining tests of the athletes at the winter olympics turned out negative. russia had its membership suspended after evidence came from a huge statewide doping scandal. after a short break i will be back to take you through the day. stick around for that. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption coent and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ (tanks rumbles) - [george bush] a new breeze is blowing. (mournful music) (ci

multiple times at the start of twenty sixteen the state criminal police office in berlin was informed that emery was on his way to the capital security officials knew that he was in contact with a terrorist cell of a radical islamist. they also knew that he sympathized with the islamic state and wanted to get a kalashnikov am i often visited the foo select mosque a meeting place for violence oriented salafist it was being observed but only from monday to friday despite the fact that amery counted as a leading potential threat he was only placed under surveillance by the state police in the summer with bloody consequences how did security officials lose sight of a terrorist an answer to this question is not only important for germany but especially for the victims' loved ones. you're watching the d.w. news live from berlin still to come they're calling it the beast from the east bay siberian cold front that is more to cold weather chaos to europe will bring you the thrills and the spills from a day in the deep freeze. first monica is here with some surprise the mood in the car industry and a roller nick because it's so cold and the su

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now that's russia's state security service and actually the fall of the organization to the k.g.b. we know he was arrested in two thousand and four and accused of being a double agent for british intelligence he's accused of turning over information on several dozen or russian agents to british intelligence forces now that of course landed him in jail eventually he was exchanged as part of a massive prisoner swap at least in two thousand and ten interesting enough that that spy swap involved and chapman who was the infamous russian sleeper agent who was sent to america several years ago now regarding his past since he left on russia we're told he kept mostly true self and tried to stay out of the limelight. and erin what have reactions in russia been to the news. well as i said they've been quite new to up to this point we haven't really seen any official word which is actually not that surprising typically when cases like this come up the russian government tries to play the game and doesn't necessarily react to it right away we've seen some oppositional media like to reduce. or t

a third major problem was the lack of security clearances for top state election officials. as of june 2017, nearly eight house intelligence committee -- months after the 2016 election, not a single official had received a security clearance. that is clearly unacceptable. and while dhs recently sponsored a one day classified briefing it received decidedly mixed reviews from state election officials. we must assist states in hardening their defenses against foreign adversaries including passing much needed legislation providing funding and authorizing appropriate security clearances to top election officials. we must also immediately ensure robust communication and information sharing in both directions between the federal government and state election agencies on cybersecurity threats. we are already in an election year. the need to act now is urgent. >> thank you, senator collins. i want to start as well by saying how proud i am of our entire committee and our leadership of chairman burr and vice chairman warner, how they've taken on this task of getting to the bottom of wha

multiple times at the start of twenty sixteen the state criminal police office in berlin was informed that emery was on his way to the capital security officials knew that he was in contact with a terrorist cell of a radical islamist. they also knew that he sympathized with the islamic state and wanted to get a kalashnikov and we often visited the foo select mosque a meeting place for violence oriented salafist it was being observed but only from monday to friday. despite the fact that emery counted as a leading potential threat he was only placed under surveillance by the state police in the summer with bloody consequences how did security officials lose sight of a terrorist an answer to this question is not only important for germany but especially for the victims' loved ones. it's to slovakia now where the murder of a young investigative journalist has sparked protests in the capital brought about a thousand people turned out for a march organized by the conservative opposition party to on a reporter young could see act and protest against political corruption the twenty seven year old was shot dead at his home last week alongside

security assistance to israel. $500 million in cooperative missile defense funding. and to support the overall trend by the further, we will ask lawmakers to cosponsor the united statesael security assistance authorization act of 2018. bipartisan legislation just introduced by representative -- and senators marco rubio and -- [applause] they deserve a lot of credit. the bill supports agreed-upon funding levels and to dramatically strengthen us cooperation with israel in many areas. including enhancing and expanding israeli based american war reserves stockpiles for which the us can share with israel in an emergency. >> this brings us to our second message for congress. for over 25 years, aipac has been instrumental in bringing attention to the threat by around. we have worked with administration and congress to peacefully adjust the iranian nuclear threat. unfortunately, the 2015 nuclear deal with iran has not moderated iran's aggressive behavior. according to the state department, iran remains the leading state sponsor on terrorism. over the last year, it has established military bases throughout syria which threatens the northern border. iran's regional aggression

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we'll continue working with states to secure their systems. we'll continue working on the intelligence side to make sure we're aware of any type of threat and we can combat that. a lot of the things, frankly, being done i can't talk in detail about but at the same time, i can assure you that this administration across the board, agen agency wide is making sure we don't make the mistakes of the previous administration and take bold action. >> bill: north korea, do you believe what you're hearing from the meeting from the south korean officials? >> we're cautiously optimistic. we have a great partnership with our south korean allies and continue working with them and other allies in the region. our senior members of the administration will be meeting with a number of individuals from the south korean special envoy later this week to get more information, more feedback on how the meetings went -- >> bill: would you characterize it as hesitant at the moment? >> we're continuing the maximum pressure campaign until we see real actionable states take