Sen. Mark Warner on “This Week” this morning: “All indications point to Russia” as the source of the cyberattack against the U.S. government, even as Trump leaps to defend his BFF Putin. Sen. Warner adds:
“This is extraordinarily serious and when the President of the United States either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out the adversary, as we make this attribution, he is not making our country safer.”
Sen. Warner adds that so far, “it appears that only the non-classified networks have been breached.” Still, Russia “came away with a big, big haul” and this will take “weeks to ferret this out” and “potentially months to remediate.”
NEW: “All indications point to Russia,” Sen. Mark Warner tells @GStephanopoulos when asked if there’s any doubt that Russia was behind the U.S. government cyberattack as President Trump downplays Russia’s role. https://t.co/MDqpnevvqi pic.twitter.com/nB78zAoBR8
— ABC News (@ABC) December 20, 2020
“This is extraordinarily serious and when the President of the United States either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out the adversary … he is not making our country safer,” Sen. Mark Warner says as Trump downplays Russia’s role in cyberattack. https://t.co/MDqpnevvqi pic.twitter.com/8yrlyqzp0W
— ABC News (@ABC) December 20, 2020
NEW: “Congress is not going to be the Grinch. We’re going to get this package done … help is on the way,” Sen. Mark Warner tells @GStephanopoulos on the COVID-19 stimulus relief bill. https://t.co/kDvDpj09I4 pic.twitter.com/SeFilqJdsM
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 20, 2020