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Mark Warner: “The Foreign Influence Task Force stood up by President Trump…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Raises the Alarm about Trump's Attacks on National Security

Published | Video Starts at 15:25

Yet now much of that hard worn protection has been dismantled, leaving Americans more vulnerable than ever. Cyber command, which under General Paul Nakasone disrupted the Russian troll farms in 2017, lacks a permanent commander, The Foreign Influence Task Force stood up by President Trump in his first term to share information with state and local partners about foreign interference in our elections. That task force has been completely disbanded. And all the while, the administration's own intelligence reporting warns. And again, I'm going to go back to quote, Beijing will continue to expand its coercive and subversive malign influence activities to weaken. (15:25–15:43)

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