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Most coloradans follow the law and thats what we we are resting on but we also take precautions to ensure that takes place. >> you are both secretaries of state. and in places that are very important in not only the past election, but of course in upcoming elections. when you hear as you are watching one eye there on the meeting, the other eye on potentially what vladimir putin is saying and saying, i didnt meddle in the election in 2016, but again our intelligence community said there was meddl...

There is something like 3,000 voting jurisdictions in the country, almost each one with its different type of election system or voting system, it would, in fact, actually be quite difficult for anyone to come in and hack a voting machine and change the results across the country. or even change the results in any large area. it would be -- because of the n ingenuity of the systems, it would be quite difficult. so they turned to other scenarios that they thought might be more plausible, such as ...

Country, almost each one with its different type of election system or voting system, it would in fact actually be quite difficult for anyone to come in and hack a voting machine and change the results across the country. or even change the results in any large area. it would be because of the systems, it would be a little -- it would be quite difficult. so with that they turned to other scenarios that they thought might actually be more plausible, such as mucking with the voter registration sys...

There is something like 3000 voting jurisdictions in the country, almost each one with different type of election system or voting system, it would, in fact, be quite difficult for anyone to come in and hack a voting machine and change the results across the country. or even change the results in any large area. it would be because of the heterojennerality of the seems, it would be quite difficult. so with that they turned to other scenarios that they thought might be more plausible such as muck...

In response if there was a strong pushback, a strong american response to the attack before the election. is it clear that the obama administration had a clear understanding of the russians capables? >> in fact, the white house did undertake a pretty in depth review of what the vulnerabilities is of the electoral system were last summer, and they had a top voting system expert in the country heading up that team. what they found was because theres something like 3,000 voting jurs disdictions in ...

Contacts with foreign entities on your application for clearance. >> absolutely. >> and it appears we have multiple members of the trump administration who have done that. so we cant just allow a pass on that. whether they hacked a voting machine or not, its more they were targeting the voters directly through a propaganda campaign. they were using social media to manipulate peoples thoughts and behaviors and thats a disturbing thing. theres a right to due process in this country because where d...

This issue of whether or not he was being asked to stop the probe. >> mary anne: is not a democratic thing or republican thing, its an american thing. i think youre going to see more reports about states like illinois and arizona and florida who did have their election databases hacked i did have the secretary of states and other related institutions that have everything to do with election day had been hacked by the russians. wasnt just the dnc, rnc. in the election assistance center was hacked...

That suggests that russian intelligence was trying somehow to some degree or some level to obstruct with the election by hacking into a voting machine. how do you believe that is characterized today? does it play to one side or the other? >> i dont think it plays to one side or the other. here -- two different things. there is trying to prove that donald trump colluded or his top aides colluded with russia to steal the election from hillary clinton, which is a political witch hunt. trump is righ...

Russia thing a hoax. >> i think there is a danger of sort of going down this track about sort of ratcheting up the meaning of this meddling. we should understand in advance there is never going to be a smoking gun. there is never going to be videotape of somebody tampering with the voting machine. i personally would be a lot happier if there was more talks about the human rights abuses. 60,000 people took to the streets in russia. the same person was arrested the day after he announced a run for...

Raised. >> try this again. >> please. >> russia is one of the most important relationships we have. >> russia meddled with the election. >> russia -- russia is not our closest friend and ally. russia has spies in this country. guess what? this is going to shock you. we have them in their country as well. we have a problematic relationship with russia. let me finish. thats why when barack obama ran for president in 2008, he said we should be talking to every country. im dpoung to talk to cuba, ir...