Insight from the Trump administration's National Security Adviser on 'Fox & Friends.’
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Steve
Fox NEWS: ALERT: U Dot S Intel
officials warning that IRAN and
Russia are trying to meddle in
the election
Ainsley director of national
intelligence. John Ratcliffe says
IRAN is behind fake e mails,
intimidating voters as Russia
obtains? U dot s voter information,
even if the adversaries
pursue further attempts to
intimidate or attempt to
undermine voter confidence of
know that our election systems
are resilient and you can be
confident. Your votes are secure.
Brian well, both russian
President, Vladimir Putin and
IRAN have denied any involvement
in this.
What about the strategy of
telling everybody I ahead of
time, instead of the aftermath
like the Obama administration,
did
Ambassador Robert Obrien joins
us now
ambassador. This probably wasnt
a surprise to you.
What about the strategy of
telling us first before the
election this time?
No, we want the voters to
know whats going on
ive been talking about this for
many months. As you know
its not just Russia and IRAN,
its China, and there are
several other countries we have
not yet gone public on
were taking major steps to
protect the elections.
Ive held over twenty high level
meetings here at the White House
with the National Security
Council. The Department of
Homeland Security is working
with our fifty states. National
Guard units set up with their
cyber units
of I was in Iowa and they have
a terrific cyber unit. The Iowa
National Guard recently and
theyre, working with their
secretary of state
so across the country, were
making big efforts to make sure
our election infrastructures
hardened and that people know
their votes going to be counted
Steve. We know the country of E
Iran has sent an e mail out.
Throughs e tone ya by Saudi
Arabia, essentially saying vote
for President Trump on election
day or were going to come
after you,
whats Russia doing
whatS China doing.
That are the examples you can
give us regarding those
countries.
Well the thing to its no
surprise that IRAN has done this
because the jcpoa has cut them
off from billions of dollars of
the jackpot they received when
they signed the jcpoa.
All those billions have been cut
off so theres no surprise
their getting involved in our
elections.
They dont like the fact that
Israels making peace with their
arab natures,
the neighbors,
the same thing with Russia.
The presidents been tougher on
Russia than any administration.
Since Ronald Reagan,
we see that theyre out on
twitter and various places with
disinformation.
You can see the same thing with
China.
China goes about trying to
cultivate local leaders, mayors
and governors and congressmen
and convince them if they dont
vote Chinas way or they dont
do what China wants. China wont
invest in their districts or
cities. That sort of thing
there are ore countries that are
attempting to do things via
cyber twitter and Facebook.
Just make sure the information
youre getting is from a trusted
source.
The fact that back to Brians
comment the President wanted to
get out early on this and let
the american people know whats
happening,
were trying to shine a light on
it because sunshine and
transparency s the biggest
disinfectant
Ainsley. What are you all doing
to make sure this election is
fair, is legitimate
yeah, its a great question
Ainsley
were working. Weve got a
massive unit at homeland
security.
We spent hundreds of millions of
dollars, helping the states and,
as you know, the states run our
elections.
The secretaries of state and
lieutenant governors manage
their elections out in their
states harden their
infrastructure.
The good news is were so
decentralized. Ninety five percent of the
ballots that are cast have some
sort of paper analog so that
they can be audited
its very difficult for an
adversary to actually change the
outcomes of the elections and
weve been doing everything we
can to make sure thats the case
on election day that no one can
play with the tallies on the
votes as they come in
and were very confident that
were in good shape on that
front because of the advanced
planning because of the white
houses involvement in making
sure our elections are safe.
Brian right,
the moderator in todays debate,
has had three of the same
topics. Maybe four that Chris
Wallace picked. Foreign policy
is not one of them
that must frustrate you, because
the presidents going against a
vice president. That was told by
his Secretary of Defense that
hes been wrong on every major
foreign policy and national
security decision. Over the last
forty years,
they killed Gadhafi and had no
plan for the next day they
pulled out of Iraq and called
ISIS part of the JV team.
You would love to contrast. Your
approach to their approach
wont you
that was fantastic Brian.
I want to focus on what the
presidents done.
The presidents brought peace to
the Middle EAST with the
historic Abraham accords, peace
between Israel, Bahrain and UAE,
and theres more to come on that
front.
Secretary Pompeo signed an
agreement with the Taliban to
stop the attacks on: U Dot S
military in Afghanistan and
were moving towards peace in
Afghanistan with talks that
were supporting there.
We brought justice to Baghdadi,
and just recently we brought the
Beatles home that killed, Kayla,
Mueller
theyre, going to be prosecuted
and put in jail for life
were going to bring them to
justice.
The president stood up to China,
the first president in my
lifetime that stood up to China.
He put massive tariffs on them
and is bringing free and fair
trade back to our relationship.
He stood up on the China virus
against them.
Hes Ree built our military
encouraged NATO to spend an
additional four hundred dollars billion to
defend the west from China and
are Russia
and that doesnt even get to the
trade deals the Usmca, which
replaced the potential NAFTA.
I was in Brazil this past week
we signed three new trade deals
that are fantastic for America,
with Brazil
of its just one thing after
another,
hes done more in the year and a
half than ive been here than
most presidents do in eight
years
its really been impressive.
Brian Ukraine, too,
theres that
Steve Ambassador after the
director of national
Intelligence and the FBI
director made their statement to
the press yesterday about 730,
Adam Schiffed. Had this
observation
wed, like your comment
watch
as far as Director
Ratcliffes statement, the two
examples that he gave of iranian
interference: the mailing of
these mails, purportedly to
democratic voters, thats an
effort to suppress the
democratic vote or an effort to
enname the democratic vote, or
simply to sow chaos
its hard to see how that could
be hurtful to the president.
So we dont know whether this is
just Ratcliffes spin or the
assessment of the analyst.
The sad thing for the american
people is, they cannot rely on
what they hear from the director
of national intelligence without
proof on the table
Steve. What do you think about
that?
Cant trust what the director of
National intelligence says
unless he says, ladies and
gentlemen, exhibit a
its really sad and its sad
that its coming from Chairman
Schiff, because he has access to
the intelligence
hes seen it.
He knows that we cant release
the intelligence either on
Russia or on IRAN or China. These
other countries
hes seen it, but then he
challenges the director of
national intelligence to release
sensitive signal, intelligence or
human intelligence or satellite
reconnaissance that we have
knowing that wont happen.
So thats a sad thing.
I know John Ratcliffe
hes, a good man and you saw
standing behind Him- was Chris
Wray and the rest of the team.
There are real efforts by our
adversaries. Ive said this from
the start. To sow discord among
Americans, ask is weve, got to
stop it and were going to son
it
and thats. Stop it,
and you know, chairman Schiffs
Comments- is just the sort of
discord that they were hoping to
stir so thats. Unfortunately
Brian he gets lower every day.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-22.