dan coats, followed by medicare -- director of homeland , atrity, kierstin nelson the i director stephen wray and finally, -- christopher wray and -- lly, the direction or >> as director of national intelligence, i would like the american people to know that the intelligence community and all of its agencies are postured to identify threats of all kinds against the united states. the president has specifically directed us to make the matter of election meddling and securing our election process a top priority and we will continue to do so. we have incorporated lessons the president has specifically learned from the 2016 elections and implemented a broad spectrum of actions to share more information across the federal government, as well as the state of local governments and also with the public and private sector. the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threat of upcoming u.s. elections, both the midterm presidential elections in 2020. in regards to russian involvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken