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Investigations unit is led by a former fbi agent. theyre investigating the reportive attempts to compromise vr systems incorporated, a florida firm whose electronic poll book software was used on election day in 21 of carolinas counties. it was checking voters in, not with counting their votes. quote, but on election day last year, that system failed in durham county, north carolina. and durham county, north carolina, holds the states most reliably democratic voters. that forced the county to is...

Fraught right now. the chest pounding and physical shows of force that were getting from russia and vladimir putin just over the past few days, they range from, frankly, ridiculous, and funny, to legitimately threatening and scary. while all that stuff gets acted out in some new way every day now, today in washington there was a serious effort to try to nail down the exact scope of how russia attacked our presidential election last year. and this wasnt so much about the attack on the democratic ...

If theyre vulnerable to exfiltration, are they also vunerable to the uncertainty created about whether someone was eligible to vote? >> yes, and yes. to both your questions. >> former homeland security secretary jay johnson testified today in congress. now the man asking him that last question, congressman adam schiff on the intelligence committee. appreciate your time being here tonight, sir. thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> do you have clarity -- does our government have clarity on...

Counties next door? is that the kind of thing that happened nationwide? is there a pattern of that kind of thing? is it because dallas is a famous county that you might have heard of if you only speak russian? we dont know. that was just a spot check. that was spot check reporting from the "dallas morning news" about what happened in their locality. and thats kind of what weve got so far. "the wall street journal" has also been trying to report out the scope and the shape of the russian attack t...

Whos in charge of keeping this safe? lots and lots and lots of different people all around the country. that said, theres also a benefit of us having this decentralized system, for a determined adversary who is trying to affect the technical side of our election infrastructure. no one attack will do it. you cant just hit one spot. youve got to hit a whole bunch of different places. maybe ones that youve chosen quite strategically. take, for example, dallas, texas. texas, of course, famously is a...

This russian attack last year could conceivably have affected our ability to vote, in addition to the stuff that we understand better now, like the russian propaganda, and russian leaked documents and the rest of it. could it have affected the way we voted technically? the journal said they started surveying election officials in nearly every state in the country to start asking these questions. they now started to report out their findings, and heres what they report out of north carolina. quot...

We try to figure out how ambitious and damaging their attacks were on our election system, part of the reason its hard to get a handle on it is because theres no one person in charge of defending our whole election system. no one person in charge of defending and monitoring the safety of all the zillions of little local election systems weve got all over the country. it makes it hard to figure out. thats kind of a down side of the decentralation. whos in charge of keeping this safe? lots and lot...

About against a couple of states, it actually had been against 39 states. russian cyber attacks much wider than previously known. then today there was this testimony in congress, and homeland security officials, testifying in congress today. they had a whole new number. and a whole new description of how big that attack was, and what the russians actually went after. they said today that its 21 states that the russians attacked. okay. okay then, sure. >> are we prepared today to say publicly how...

That is a fact, plain and simple. >> why do you think that president trump will not state that russia meddled in our elections? >> you would have to ask him, sir. >> you say the voter registration data bases are vulnerable to exfiltration. if theyre vulnerable to exfiltration, are they also vunerable to the uncertainty whether someone was eligible to vote? >> yes, and yes. to both your questions. >> former homeland security secretary jeh johnson testified today in congress. now the man asking hi...

>> are we prepared today to say publicly how many states were targeted? >> as of right now, we have 21 states -- election related systems in 21 states that were targeted. >> internet related networks in 21 states were potentially targeted by russian government cyber actors. >> okay. that was the word from homeland security officials today, 21 states. bloomberg a few days ago citing three sources it was 39 states. the public statement from the government already about the two states that were nam...