Feds: Russia and Iran have interfered with presidential election

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced both Iran and Russia have obtained U.S. voter registration information in an effort to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI and CNN Contributor, tells Anderson Cooper this is a threat so significant that it should be led by the President of the United States. Plus, former President Obama was out on the campaign trail for his friend and former Vice President, Joe Biden. He gave a blistering speech about Pres. Trump and argued he “hasn’t show any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends or treating the presidency like a reality show he can use to get attention.” Reggie Love is a former Special Assistant and Personal Aide to Pres. Obama. He joins AC360 to react to the former President’s speech and says he thinks it was based around the idea of wanting to remind people their voice matters. Airdate: October 21, 2020 Guests: Andrew McCabe Reggie Love To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Aaron, thanks.
0:01.0	And because we continue to learn more about this breaking story about the minute, I want
0:05.1	to go back and bring back a CNN's Evan Prez for just to kind of go deeper into this.
0:10.6	Evan, if you can just talk about what this press, what came out of this, Evan, hey, can
0:16.0	you hear me?
0:17.0	It's Anderson.
0:18.0	Very weak.
0:19.0	Okay.
0:20.0	We are on the air right now.
0:21.0	Can you just go into some detail about what we heard now from the DNI and from Chris
0:25.4	Ray of the FBI?
0:27.4	Well, we heard, Anderson, we heard from the John Ratcliffe, the head of the Director of
0:32.2	National Intelligence, that both Iran and Russia have gained access to voter registration
0:38.8	system and appeared to at least have access to that data.
0:43.0	Now, the question is, what can they do with that?
0:46.0	With the Iranians, according to Ratcliffe, they were behind a series of emails that have
0:50.6	been received around the country.
0:52.7	Democratic voters were getting these emails.
0:54.7	Florida, Alaska, and I think at least one other state in particular.
0:58.8	Right.
0:59.8	And they were being threatened to say, you have to change your registration.
1:04.6	We're going to be watching you.
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