Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told NBC's Chuck Todd that domestic racial issues in the United States are now a national security issue during an interview that aired on Sunday's edition of Meet the Press.
Harris argued that the issue of race is the U.S.'s "achilles heel," which was exposed by Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Harris said that when Russian operatives were trying to attack the U.S.'s "strongest pillar of democracy" (free and open elections), they "tried out a bunch of different things" before race "caught heat."
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