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Bases from homeland security and other places. thats kind of like the cross check program that secretary of state -- kansas secretary of state has been running which has been proven to have a bis proportionate influence. but never threat disproportionately. because of the kinds of names that are likely to show up in the database. so everything about this commission from the presidents statements about it, the formation of it, the membership, the plans for the commission, all of it leads to one c...

Mode. itis not to the level of the president, so theres not integration with the intelligence communities. solely looking at physical threats against the protectee. that was the posture of terms during that meeting. >> then, what do you do -- what do you make of then the agencies response, this statement that they ended up. >> i applaud them for their immediate response. they are correcting a narrative that was false. you know, the secret service does not vet, at that time, does not vet against,...

That needs to be done. was this a dangal? were there other dangales being made by the russians? >> and do you see these emails or the meeting as a possible trial balloon to gauge interests from the trump campaign? jim and i were talking about how it struck us how explicit the email was laying out this is a russian government effort to support the trump campaign. what is your sense on this? >> i think as you step back and take a look at the wide range of what russia was up to in the lead up to th...

Bloomberg reports that voter registration in 39 states was affected. election data bases were breached but the attack didnt affect the outcome of the election. there are now at least five different investigations under way into this whole thing which spreads way beyond the cyberattack. the fbi investigation is being run by special counsel, former head of the fbi, robert mueller. its looking into russias meddling, potential ties between trump associates and russian officials and reportedly whethe...

Be going. if this commission wants to be serious about addressing important election relate issues, it should be addressing the issue of russia and the question of its interference in the 2016 general election, whether it actually successfully hacked any of our data bases and what it can do to protect that moving forward. >> well see if the president brings that up on friday. thank you very much. coming up, time is running out. cutter is staring down a deadline hours away to meet a list of dem...

Were targets are cyber intrusions and voter data bases during the 2016 election. have you heard at all from the trump administration regarding that and regarding making sure that the elections go off without a hitch and that our systems and states are not interfered with. >> i think thats a really good point. and for me, personally, if this election integrity commission were interested in looking into this very real issue that we know really happened, we know that russia attempted to hack voter ...

Making sure we get information to our allies on the homeland security committee. i set on a task force last year that looked at foreign fighters. these are americans going in to iraq and syria fighting with isis and coming back. and some of the things that we learn that our european partners werent checking the travel documents of every known traveler. they were checking one out of every three which is crazy. we also found they werent checking the names of known travelers against watch list info...

And multiple jurisdictions, thousands of jurisdictions. it doesnt take much to have an impact. if fact the russians got in the data bases, and they did in two states. illinois and arizona. in illinois, there was 76,000 voters whose information was compromised. all you have to do is change a few digits in those voter registration efforts and then people go to the polls and they couldnt, there would be confusion at the polls. now, that didnt happen. but the potential for real havoc is there. >> al...

The hearing, not just johnsons testimony but other witnesses, these are systems very distributed. theyre different vendors. different localities and different states. and they are penetratable. >> some people took solace in the fact to change outcome of an election would be extremely difficult. because the election system is so diffuse and run on state and local levels. and multiple jurisdictions, thousands of jurisdictions. it doesnt take much to have an impact. if fact the russians got in the ...

This is our process, our sovereign responsibility, were not interested in the federal takeover. >> doesnt the federal government have an interest in the integrity of these elections? >> i think the american public, the nation has an interest in the integrity of the election and i think you federally elected officials have an interest in the integrity of the elections that result in you sitting here, yes. but i think that we need to continue now that the campaign is over, maybe in odd years, if w...