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Blaming democrats. the reality is there were imperfections in their system. there are weaknesses and vulnerabilities. they were told about this on friday. instead of owning up to the failure and making it right, he decided to blame democrats. we are not responsible. we have nothing to do with this. and im very sad that instead of owning up to his responsibility and honoring his commitment as secretary of state, that he is once again misleading georgia. >> what do you think, mike shields? >> yeah...

Seriously. you have to be alerted. >> agreed, but brian kemp is the current secretary of state. in 2016, he was one of the only secretary of states in the country to refuse help from the homeland of security to shore up the election system in georgia. if there are vulnerabilities in the system, it falls on brian kemp. i think its laughable for him to try it pass it off on the democrats. this is clearly a failure of him to do his job. while, yes, secretary of states do run for office all the time...

Watch this. >> first of all, its not a real investigation. what happened is brian kemp once again is trying to cover up failures by blaming someone else. he blamed staff, vendors and democrats but the reality is there is imperfections in the system and weaknesses and vulnerabilities. they were told about it friday and instead of owning up to the failure and making it right, he decided to blame democrats. were not responsible. we have nothing to do with this and im sad instead of owning up to his...

Need to own up to on a big picture level, which is one party has consistently tried to pass laws, do things to get people not to vote and another part is hes consistently tried to encourage people voting. this is going to hang around republicans necks if we have massive problems again this year with people being, you know, denied at the polls, not being counted. this is just, its one election too many. you cant keep doing that. >> listen, i dont want to get too far here but this is what cnn obta...

This hack saying, quote, democrats tried to expose vulnerabilities in the voter registration system. these are claims democrats say are 100% false, they say the claims are scurrilous. stacy abrams spoke to a couple hundred people in this community center. she didnt address the coarse in front of the crowd but we immediately spoke to her after her remarks. >> first of all, whats happened is brian kemp once again is trying to cover up for his failures in cybersecurity by blaming someone else. the ...

Power. brian kemp knew on friday. this was a problem that he failed to act before he gets caught. he decided to cast blame on democrats. thats an easy ploy to involve. >> the core question we have to remind ourselves to go back to, are there vulnerabilities within georgias voter registration and how could this affect tuesdays election? brian kemp in his capacity of secretary of state said the system is secure, but very different rhetoric coming from his campaign as opposed to his office of secre...

Democrats of attempted election hacking without offering an iota of evidence. his democratic rival, stacey abrams, is calling the investigation a witch hunt. kemp has resisted a number of calls to step down from his role overseeing the elections. and so with me now, keisha lance bottom. she is the democratic mayor from the great city of atlanta. miss mayor, nice to have you back. >> thank you for having me. >> so moments ago, kemp said, quote, im not worried about how it looks, im just doing my ...

Two women working with the hotline. the democrats quickly said that any claims that they were apart of any hack were scurrilous and said the claims were 100% false and they went on to say that the democratic party was passing on information that they received from a concerned citizen. this man, richard write was looking into his own status when he came upon potential vulnerabilities. both of those entities funneled it up. stacey abrams responded to the news. >> its wrong to call it an investigat...

Parties reporting possible vulnerabilities to the secretary of states office. in this case within hours of getting notification of a new vulnerability on their website, they came out with this press release, possibly blaming the democratic party. you know its part of a tradition here of not taking these vulnerabilities seriously, and in this case, making a really reckless claim before that could possibly be any data to back it up. >> you said theres a history of third party groups notifying geor...

Partners, and formally requested the federal bureau of investigation to investigate these possible cybercrimes. the secretary of states office will release more information as it becomes available. joining us now is alex stamos, former head of security for facebook, now an msnbc cybersecurity analyst. alex, thanks very much for being with us, its good to have you here. >> thanks, rachel. >> this was an explosive claim today. but weve been looking into it this afternoon and into this evening. f...