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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg P and L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Abramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money, whether you're at the grocery store

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot com. How

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Speaker 1: difficult is it to hack into the US election system? While,

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Speaker 1: according to one report, Florida's Department of State has criticized

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Speaker 1: an experiment to thwart hackers because an eleven year old

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Speaker 1: hacker needed only ten minutes to bust into a replica

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Speaker 1: site and make it look like the wrong candidate had

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Speaker 1: won a presidential election. Here to tell us more about

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Speaker 1: the situation is Clint Watts. He is a senior fellow

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Speaker 1: Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at

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Speaker 1: George Washing at the George Washington University. He was previously

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Speaker 1: an infantry officer in the United States Army, executive officer

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Speaker 1: of the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy

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Speaker 1: at West Point, and a former FBI official. Clint watts.

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Speaker 1: Should we just go back to paper ballots? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would seem that way, doesn't it. I it's amazing that

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Speaker 1: our tech, you know, we should expect it to be

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Speaker 1: able to return a vote very quickly and to do

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Speaker 1: that efficiently, but it is almost impossible to secure it

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Speaker 1: if it has any sort of connection to the web.

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Speaker 1: And at the same point, we're relying on just a

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Speaker 1: few programmers to try and prevent thousands or even you know,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of potential hackers out there over time

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Speaker 1: from breaking into systems. So we're in a tough spot.

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Speaker 1: And I think the important thing America is that we

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Speaker 1: so that we can verify a vote, because we've seen

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Speaker 1: this happen, particularly Ukraine for example, of Russia had hacked

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Speaker 1: into the system there and the Ukrainians caught it before

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Speaker 1: it went live. But we will always have this threaten

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Speaker 1: as long as we have candidates that are as also

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Speaker 1: going that maybe we can't trust the vote, we're going

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Speaker 1: to have these sorts of problems over the horizon. You know.

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Speaker 1: Pim raised a good point, which is there are these

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Speaker 1: tests and studies being done of just how compromise the U. S.

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Speaker 1: Electoral system really is right now, And I have to wonder,

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Speaker 1: especially as we head into the midterm elections, just how

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Speaker 1: far have hackers gotten, How how pervasive has some of

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Speaker 1: the influence already been, And are you worried about the

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Speaker 1: integrity of these elections. I'm not so much worried about

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Speaker 1: the integrity as much as the perception of the integrity.

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Speaker 1: And by what I mean by that is it actually is,

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Speaker 1: you know, fairly difficult to change the votes. We have

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Speaker 1: a lot of people looking at it, but we still

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Speaker 1: have about five states. It sounds like that don't have

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Speaker 1: a sufficient audit trail or a paper ballot backups that

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Speaker 1: we can verify. What I'm more nervous about, though, is

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Speaker 1: the perception or the casting of doubt about the integrity

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Speaker 1: of elections. We saw this in twenty sixteen when we

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Speaker 1: were watching Russian influence. UH. When I was studying this,

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Speaker 1: the second way was really about making people nervous that

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Speaker 1: we're seeing that come up again in twenty eight team.

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Speaker 1: We're already worried about it now months in advance, but

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Speaker 1: That sort of doubt is almost impossible. And even if

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Speaker 1: a proemptive hack, you just made it look like you

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Speaker 1: hit a voter database, or you change something and then

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Speaker 1: dumped it out online. That would create widespread doubt in

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Speaker 1: the electoral system. That's an attack on democracy and it

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Speaker 1: really under undermines the trust and integrity in both are

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Speaker 1: elected officials in our institutions. Clint, what do you believe

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Speaker 1: I would have said yes up until now. I just

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Speaker 1: I know it's not presidential to take on a low

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Speaker 1: as possible. Sorry, So what is the possible consequence other

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Speaker 1: What is the potential security consequence of have somebody taping

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Speaker 1: What is the security concern here? Yeah, Well, as we

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Speaker 1: who's hacked into those devices. Uh, John Kelly, the Chief

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Speaker 1: the President tweets a lot, and so he's carrying around

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Speaker 1: into our government. And this is just unprecedented. Usually, I know,

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Speaker 1: working at the FBI and even with the military, you

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Speaker 1: Just think the erosion of trust on that staff, right,

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Speaker 1: now if you thought you were being recorded by your coworkers,

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Speaker 1: And it also probably makes long time civil servants in

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Speaker 1: you believe that your communications are monitored or have been monitored,

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Speaker 1: I assume so, you know, in a certain context. I

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Speaker 1: because that's it's just different. The standards of surveillance are

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Speaker 1: I can't say that that's the case, but I've definitely

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Speaker 1: had hacking attempts against me and and institutions that I've

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Speaker 1: worked for. Clint Watts, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us and for all your insights. Clint Watts is

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Speaker 1: a former FBI Special Agent. He is currently Senior Fellow

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Speaker 1: Security at the George Washington University. You know, Lisa, at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, one dollar would get you

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Speaker 1: three point seven for Turkish lira. How many you get today? Yes,

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Speaker 1: good question, six point nine one. That is a drop

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Speaker 1: were you able to call this decline in the value

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Speaker 1: of the Turkish lira? Well? Uh, first of all, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me. Um. Yes, I've been embarrassed on Turkish

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Speaker 1: Why Well, I think in general markets surprise that there's

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Speaker 1: But by waiting so long, the situation is really close

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Speaker 1: I think we have to see, uh, some greater knock

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Speaker 1: Other car manufacturers obviously also exploring UM creating electric vehicles UM.

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Speaker 1: And sure that opportunity is there. But I think if

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Speaker 1: putting some money into an established carmaker that also has

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Speaker 1: a sideline in electric vehicles. Matthew, just quickly give you

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Speaker 1: twenty seconds. Is there any evidence to support that previous

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Speaker 1: I think we've still got to wait a little while

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Speaker 1: that promised to be in the future. Right, Matthew Martin,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Matthew Martin

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