BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION. I'm Margaret Brennan.
We continue our conversation with Obama administration Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
Jeh, let's pick up where we were talking about this House Intelligence Committee report into alleged collusion and Russian meddling in 2016.
JEH JOHNSON, FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Yes.
BRENNAN: In the report, which you've acknowledged you wish it weren't just a Republican paper because it is so serious.
JOHNSON: Uh-huh.
BRENNAN: But the conclusion is that the intelligence community should immediately inform presidential candidates when they discover a legitimate counter intelligence threat to the campaign and notify Congress. And they fault the administration for not doing that when you were in office.
JOHNSON: Well, I think that's a legitimate recommendation. Any time a campaign is the target of a hack, a cyber hack, the campaign itself should be aware of that so to take proper action.
BRENNAN: Why weren't they? Why wasn't the Trump campaign?
JOHNSON: Well, I -- I believe that it's the case that at various points along the way, the right people were informed. Certainly the DNC was informed of what we saw and what we were seeing at the time. The FBI and eventually DHS was working with the DNC. But I -- I agree, that there should be a more methodical way of doing this. And this was not the first time, by the way, in 2016 that a campaign had been infiltrated in some way by a cyberattack. And typically law enforcement and DHS will work with a campaign to make sure they take corrective action.
You'd have to ask the FBI about the relationship with the -- the interaction with the Trump campaign. But I -- I don't argue with the recommendation