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So, six days to go, and one thing that everybody is talking about, and thinking about, it is going to shock you. are you ready? turnout, folks. because candidates and big name backers are fanning across the country as were coming on the air with president biden adding a last-minute semi prime time speech to the schedule tonight set to talk about threats to the democracy a couple of blocks from the capitol. a new report on what he will say. and new polling this hour, giving us a snapshot of wha...

They are our concerns and we heard in the past that cisa is volunteering to provide assistance to state and locals but it is up to the state and locals to accept the help and more than 100 jurisdictions are asking for help and can our websites be hacked, can we do a test to make sure that they cannot be hacked? and in fact, cisa has a backlog of more than 100 that are still waiting, hallie can and we understand a lot of it has to do with staffing shortages and a major contractor that used to be ...

Help and still waiting for the help, close to election day, according to those familiar with the backlog. >> talk about what the municipalities want, and what is up with the holdup here? six days to go. why havent they gotten the help they asked for. >> great question, were asking them all now. and what i can tell you is the local jurisdiction, state and locals, they are asking cisa, the agency newly created within the department of homeland security, to provide services to make sure our electio...

Out for comment, theyre not denying this backlog but theyre saying they were able to provide a more general test to basically make sure that their cyber hygiene is in check and able to do that for over 400 injures decision, but this specific test that allows someone to say, look, can we be hacked, it requires a lot of expertise and a lot of time and basically what were hearing is they dont have the time to do it before election day. hallie? >> turn reporting, glad to bring it to our viewers firs...

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