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Pres. Trump fires top DHS cybersecurity official Chris Krebs

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Pres. Trump fired the top Department of Homeland Security official, Chris Krebs, who has repeatedly rejected his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Krebs was the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and has said there “is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” Miles Taylor is a former DHS Chief of Staff in the Trump administration. He was hired on the same day as Krebs and worked closely with him. He tells Anderson Cooper “the President is very afraid to hear the truth and Chris Krebs knows more about the truth of the security of this election than anyone in the government.” Plus, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina admitted and defended his outreach to officials in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, all states that Democratic President-elect Joe Biden won. Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State, accused Graham of asking him to “look hard and see how many ballots you could throw out” referring to absentee ballots that heavily favored Biden. The Senator denied the accusation calling it “ridiculous” and claims he was pushing Raffensperger to strengthen signature verification rules for mail-in ballots ahead of the Senate runoffs that will determine the next majority in the Senate. Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system implementation manager, was also on the call and corroborated Raffensperger’s claims. Sterling joins AC360 to discuss what he heard on the call.   Airdate: November 17, 2020   Guests: Miles Taylor Gabriel Sterling       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

Good evening.

0:01.0

We're going to continue with the breaking news.

0:02.6

Two stories connected to the widening effort by President Trump to inflate baseless claims

0:06.6

of voter fraud and overturn the presidential results in several key states.

0:10.4

Tonight, the president is fired one of the top cybersecurity officials in the administration.

0:15.0

Days after his agency, along with other federal, state, and private election partners, issued

0:19.4

a statement directly contradicting the president's election day claims.

0:22.8

It read, in part, quote, the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.

0:28.1

Our other breaking news in the Michigan County that includes Detroit, where the Republican

0:32.2

members of the Board of Canva-Sers has prevented the certification of the presidential

0:36.8

results for the entire county.

0:39.1

The vote was two to two along partisan lines preventing certification.

0:43.4

President-elect Biden's win in the county helped him to win Michigan.

0:47.7

If those votes aren't eventually certified, could jeopardize Biden's claim to Michigan's

0:51.5

electoral votes, we start with the firing of Prisk CREPs, who was director of the Department

0:56.7

of Homeland Security's cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency.

1:01.1

President Trump fired him by tweet two, actually.

1:04.4

The first will not show you as it is baseless and wholly inaccurate.

1:08.3

In the second tweet, the president writes, in part, therefore, effective immediately,

1:12.2

Chris CREPs has been terminated as director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security

1:16.1

agency.

1:17.1

Our senior national security correspondent Alex Markhart joins us now.

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