EXCERPT:
PEREZ: “This isn’t about right versus left, this is right versus wrong. A foreign adversary, Russia, they hacked the DNC, the hacked others. They did so with the intent to interfere with our presidential election. And what we said in the letter is when we have such activity -- if someone calls you and tells you, I’m going to rob a bank, your response should be, I’m going to call the authorities. When the Russians called Donald Trump and said, I got dirt on Hillary Clinton they should have called the authorities. Instead they said, tell us what you’ve got. That’s not right. And what we are seeing is we need to restore the basic institutions of our democracy. That should have been a lay-up."
CAMEROTA: "Yeah."
PEREZ: "But again, as we saw in the reporting the -- the -- the Homeland Security secretary --"
CAMEROTA: "Yeah."
PEREZ: "-- the former one, wasn’t even allowed to bring it up. We are at war. It is a cyber war. But our commander-in-chief is compromised. That is a problem."
CAMEROTA: "Yeah."
PEREZ: "And that’s what we are trying to address."