Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Sunday told MSNBC she was “very concerned” about the threat of Russian interference in the upcoming midterm elections.
“I am very concerned that you could have a hack that finally went through. You have 21 states that were hacked into. They didn't find out about it for a year,” Klobuchar told Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” regarding Director of National Intelligence Dan Coat’s comments that a threat “is real” and continuing.
“And that's one of the reasons that we want to pass our bill, so that there's now a requirement that they tell the individual secretary of states immediately so they can protect themselves. And I think you also have the fact that you've got the president undermining this on national TV. Still, after his security people, General Nakasone, that they go in front of the world, and they say this is happening, he says that night at a rally in Pennsylvania that it's a hoax. So, that concerns me.
“But at the same time, there are some very good people working on it. I'd love to see this broadened out, so we start to discuss also the threats to our power grid system, the threats to our financial system, because the Russians aren't just stopping at the election equipment.”
President Donald Trump last week decried what he referred to as the Russian hoax mere hours after his top national security officials warned of attempts by Moscow to influence U.S. elections.
"In Helsinki, I had a great meeting with Putin," Trump said during a rally in Pennsylvania. "We discussed everything. ... We got along really well. By the way, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. Now we're being hindered by the Russian hoax – it's a hoax, OK?"
Earlier Thursday, Coats said the DNI had continued to “see a pervasive messaging campaign by Russia to try to weaken and divide the United States. The president has specifically directed us to make the matter of election meddling and securing our election process a top priority."
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