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New indictment exposes gaps in election security

Season 2018 Episode 264 | 3m 53s

Robert Mueller’s team indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday for hacking into the Democratic campaign and state election operations in 2016. The indictment also revealed how state and local election boards were targeted, information on 500,000 American voters was stolen and cryptocurrencies were used to fund the operations. POLITICO's Eric Geller joins Hari Sreenivasan for more.

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