> let's bring in a former homeland security adviser to president trump and abc news contributor tom bossert. tom, we saw businesses boarding up. people expecting violence in the streets. unrest after the election. obviously we still don't know key results in this race as far as who the next president will be but your thoughts? >> kenneth, my home state of pennsylvania as predicted seem to be the linchpin still, so the keystone state, i guess, all eyes are on it. my thoughts are that i'm really proud of americans for the most part on how we got through yesterday and of my law enforcement brethren in the homeland security field. we saw some physical skirmishes that are very unfortunate, but didn't see any shootings. doesn't seem like anything too far out of hand so at least yesterday and last night we had a pretty smooth experience. but i now see that there's planned protests and any time that happens they're good but they also provide an opportunity for escalation and so we're hoping to watch for it today and the following week as all these close election results come in that we don't have a

we know that the nsc, since tom bossert left, has not really built up its cyber capability as well. how concerning is this? >> i think it's very troubling, andrea. first of all, i think chris krebs carried out his responsibilities quite capably. also i think he showed great leadership in terms of trying to debunk and refute all the specious allegations out there about fraudulent activity during this election, at least from the computer and technical side. but this is also very disruptive of the u.s. government's cybersecurity activities, because our cybersecurity vigilance should not end with the election. there's an ongoing battle that the u.s. government faces in terms of trying to stop and deter and to undermine those attempts to undermine our cybersecurity. and so chris krebs and his organization was working very well with the nsa and other elements of the intelligence community to try to keep our technical infrastructure safe from these types of foreign intrusions that could do great damage to us, not just politically but also economically. >> and let's talk about the troop wit