The U.S. Intelligence Community is warning that Russia and Iran are planning to stoke violence in the U.S. from election day through inauguration.

And that between now and the election, those countries plus China will intensify their efforts to divide Americans

and undermine confidence in the election.

The intelligence community said Russia was behind this fake video pushing a salacious lie against Democratic vice presidential

nominee Tim Walls.

That is just one of myriad efforts underway to undermine the already fraught election here.

For perspective on all of this, we turn now to Graham Brooky.

The Atlantic Council's Vice President for Technology Programs and Strategy

is also the founding director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab.

Thanks for being with us.

So Russia, Iran, and China have conducted influence operations

in this country for years.

How significant is it that the Intel community is now warning that Russia and

Iran are set to stoke violence between the election day and inauguration?

Well, Jeff, as you've said, all of those state adversaries that you just mentioned have been conducting influence operations and interference operations for years and years and years, including in past election cycles.

The intelligence community has done a particularly good job preemptively putting out these

assessments at the 90 day period ahead of elections, at the 60 day period before elections and at the 30 day period

and we expect to have more updates like this to their assessment.

Now what is interesting about this assessment is that it is particularly focused on the information environment in the immediate lead up to election day and in the post election period as well as the period in between election day and when we know the results of the election.

And what we expect from those state actors is potential October surprises.

Things like crossing that threshold from broad influence operations to try to change the behavior or perception of the American public to interference, which includes that type of

mobilization toward potential for mobilization or encouragement to mobilization towards things like

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