 Thank you. What should the U.S. do to prevent foreign interference in elections? Another easy question You know oh my gosh, well First accept the fact it happened don't argue about it. It happened You know just just this week the Senate Intelligence Committee on a bipartisan basis Issued a report going into detail about how much the Russians interfered in our elections in favor of Donald Trump and against me I mean that's just a fact and you know the Mueller report if you can if you can bring yourself to read it And not just read about it Really explains what they call the sweeping and systematic attack by the Russians on our election system And so first let's accept the fact that a foreign adversary used their military intelligence assets think of that to interfere with our election in the hopes of Helping to elect someone they thought would be more malleable or more favorable to their goals and Right now we're in a real quandary because The only institution capable of Stopping this is the federal government our elections are at the state and local level. That's where we run them But the expertise the homeland security expertise the cyber expertise Doesn't exist in a county in Michigan It exists in you know the Defense Department and the Homeland Security Department and the CIA and other places in Our federal government and there seems to be very little appetite by the federal government to do anything about it And so if you followed this and you can guess I have Even officials in the Trump administration have said repeatedly the Russians are still in our election systems Dan Coates who was removed from the director of national intelligence very you know very honorable man You know gave a speech about it actually went to the White House briefing room To try to sound the warning But it's it's going to take concerted effort and just throwing money at the problem is not enough. That's a part of it So here's what I tell the candidates who've come to see me the or called me on the phone that one's running on the Democratic side I've said look you could run the best campaign You could be the nominee and you could lose for four factors that are not in your control one voter suppression and purging of voters Which is still going on millions and millions of people are Either being purged or their registration is not accepted or they're turned away when they come to vote You could have information stolen from you and people in your campaign, which is then weaponized As happened to me crazy stuff being made up You could have a steady stream of Outrageous untrue stories that are fed to people's Facebook feeds and other social media Accounts that influences them because you know, we're talking about really sophisticated Propaganda we're talking about people in your feed who look like they're real news people They speak with American accent in English and they're filming in Macedonia and Ukraine and St. Petersburg Making up stuff, you know, I mean one of the things that people who voted against me apparently believed according to an Ohio State University study was that Pope Francis had endorsed Trump At cause why they saw it on the news. What was the news a? Guy in a suit and tie a young good-looking guy sitting behind a desk telling them that and Then the fourth problem is the actual interference with the elections themselves We know it happened. We don't have the details about what did happen We know that the Russians were in the systems of at least four counties in Florida But even members of Congress who get briefed on this from the FBI can't tell you what they're told because it's classified So I am very worried my friends. I'm very worried because those four factors are alive and well and I'm also really disappointed in a lot of the tech companies And I'll mention Facebook because they're the most influential More people in the world get their news from Facebook than any combination of other news sources And now Facebook says that you can buy an ad that is totally untrue. They're not going to take it down You can take elements of Nancy Pelosi Speaking and piece it together to have her say something she never said and have it posted and Facebook won't take it down Even though it's a manufactured deep fake So, how are voters supposed to know? I mean, I I don't know. I'm a voter. How am I supposed to know? When you see this stuff, it's professionally produced It's got a lot of money behind it It's aimed at you because remember when they when the Russians hacked the DNC They also and they got you know people who work there their emails and you know caused commotion about that But they also hacked the cloud and they stole all of the information my campaign had stored there About Persuadable voters voters. We were going to be reaching out to calling knocking on their door. They stole all that so When Paul Manafort handed something over to a Russian agent named Kalimnik We we believe it was polling information That they then could match up against the information they stole All I want is a free fair Transparent honest election not interfered with by Russians or anybody else so that the choice of the American people is actually the choice the American people made