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Was there any level of cooperation at all? >> to my disappointment, not to my knowledge, sir. this is a question i asked repeatedly when first learned of it. what are we doing? are we in there? are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities? this was fresh off the opm experience. there was a point at which dhs cyber security experts did get into opm and actually help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the exfiltrations, or minimize some of the damage. so i was anxious to know wheth...

More we thought we could and should do to address this issue. can you elaborate if you are still secretary of homeland security. what would your recommend ation be? >> a number of things. one, i would as a congress think about -- i would think about grants to state election officials. to help them harden their cybersecurity. i would raise awareness among state election officials, as well as public in general. employees of state governments. raise awareness about the evils and the hazards of spea...

Is more that we could and should do to address this issue. can you elaborate -- if you were still secretary of homeland security, what would your recommendations be? >> a number of things. one, i would, as congress, i would think about grants to state election officials to help them harden their cyber security. i would raise awareness among state election officials as well as public in general, employees of state governments, raise awareness about the evils and hazards of speer fishing. i think ...

Forward, you designated the voting system as critical infrastructure. can you give us a quick snap as to why that was important in your mind? >> it was important in my mine because critical infrastructure receives a priority in terms of the assistance we give on cyber security. thats number one. theres a certain level of confidence -- of confidentiality that goes into the communications between critical infrastructure and the department that are guaranteed. number three, when you are part of cri...

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...

Over. this is our process. its our sovereign responsibility. were not interested in federal takeover. they were very -- >> 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. i think you federally elected officials have an interest in 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 year...

Th this morning. a lot of details asked. can we start a top level conversation about dhs mission with respect to cyber given how intertwined it is to voter registration, voting, vote tallying and all those kind of things and, also, if you wouldnt mind, folding into that what appears to be a delay between when the fbi became aware of things that were going on and what it seems the dhs was informed about things going. how is the relationship with the fbi relative to this particular infrastructure ...

Forward. you designated the voting system as critical infrastructure and in the remaining time, can you give us a quick snap as to why that was important in your mind? >> it was important in my mind because critical infrastructure receives a priority in terms of the assistance we give on cybersecurity. thats number one. a certain level of confidence, confidentiality that goes into the communications between critical infrastructure and the department that are guaranteed. and number three, when yo...

Morning. a lot of questions will be asked. a lot of the details. a top level conversation about dhs mission with respect to cyber, particularly given how intertwined it is with respect to voter registration, voting, vote tallying, all those good things and also if you wouldnt mind folding into that what appears to be a delay between when the fbi became aware of things going on and what it seems dhs was informed about things going on. the relationship with the fbi relative to this particular infr...

Was there any level of cooperation at all? >> to my disappointment. not to my knowledge, sir. this is a question i asked repeatedly when i first learned of it. what are we doing? are we in there? are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities. this is fresh off the opm experience. and there was a point at which dhs cybersecurity experts did get into opm and actually help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the ex-filtrations or at least minimize some of the damage. so, i was anxious...