Pres. Trump fires top DHS cybersecurity official Chris Krebs
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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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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