MSNBC Host: Time For Other Countries To Help us Monitor Our Elections

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace wondered on Monday whether it is time for Americans to ask one of our international allies for help in ensuring the country’s elections are secure.

Fifteen days before the midterms, the Deadline: White House host welcomed Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) to discuss the integrity of the voting.

Himes said the country’s geopolitical adversaries – such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea – each have “an interest in influencing our elections.”

“We know what Russia did in 2016 with the purchase of ads on social media and the creation of fake accounts,” he said. “I worry more about the domestic stuff than in the intelligence committee.”

Wallace then floated the idea of inviting representatives from a foreign country to “monitor” U.S. elections.

“I don’t want to get too off-topic, but if you read through the papers this weekend the threats to our elections in what, two-and-a-half weeks, are so pervasive and they’re so dire and they include violence,” Wallace said. “I mean do you think it’s time to ask for friends and allies to come over and help us monitor our elections?”