Senate warns of unprecedented foreign election interference
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
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USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer talks about lawmakers' concerns over foreign election interference.
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USA TODAY Congress Reporter Ken Tran talks through the dysfunction of the 118th Congress.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday May 16th, 2024. of foreign election interference. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus, Biden and Trump agreed to a debate schedule. |
| 0:31.0 | And we look at whether the chaos is in the rearview mirror for the 118th Congress. |
| 0:38.6 | The Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing yesterday where lawmakers talk through warnings of unprecedented |
| 0:44.3 | foreign interference in this year's election. I spoke with USA Today domestic |
| 0:48.8 | security correspondent Josh Meyer to learn more. Josh thanks for dropping on. Thanks for having me Taylor. Josh, |
| 0:53.0 | thanks for hopping on. |
| 0:54.0 | Thanks for having me, Taylor. |
| 0:55.0 | So Josh, what did the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings center on yesterday? |
| 0:59.0 | So this was designed to be the first of several hearings that the Senate Intelligence Committee is holding on |
| 1:03.8 | election threats to the United States, especially foreign election threats. |
| 1:08.0 | And this was sort of the kickoff by Senator Mark Warner, the chairman of the committee, who said in his prepared remarks and during the hearing that this could be the most hacked and penetrated election in U.S. history, and he's concerned about a variety of threats, including Russia, possibly China, Iran, but also artificial intelligence-induced deep fakes and all sorts of other threats. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, I want to hear a little bit more about some of the foreign players that this hearing focused on. |
| 1:33.8 | Was Russia really the main concern here, Josh? |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah, it was. |
| 1:36.4 | I mean, so that's not exactly new. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, the U.S. intelligence community has concluded that the 2016 presidential election that Russia |
| 1:44.9 | interfered with that very aggressively in an effort to help Donald Trump defeat |
| 1:49.1 | Hillary Clinton. They've since meddled in more recent elections and according to the chairman Mark Warner, the ranking minority member Marco Rubio and also three top intelligence officials Russia remains the most aggressive and most pervasive threat to the upcoming elections as well. |
| 2:06.0 | And which factors have really worsened the threat of foreign election interference in recent years? |
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