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E identify vulnerabilities. lamb didnt kn lamb called georgias center for elections systems run out of this house on the campus of kennesaw state university to tell them. six months later, everything was still unprotected. >> everything was still available. what does that tell you about the secure election of the state of georgia? >> gas election systems should not be trusted. >> reporter: eventually kennesaw state closed the loophole. a lawsuit was filed challenging the security of georgias ele...

System was holding up. what he found was an open win w window. >> there was a voter registration database with 6.3 million records of all of georgias voters including full names, dates of birth even drivers license and partial social security numbers all wide open to anyone snooping. certain counties in georgia were identified as vulnerabilities. lamb didnt know about the records so he e-mailed and called georgias center for election systems running out of this house on the campus of ken saw sta...

>> julia, i want to get now to the former trump senior aide, omarosa manigault-newman. recorded a conversation in the white house, in the situation room the chief of staff john kellys firing of her last january. from a security perspective, how is that even possible? >> well, because security in most of these instances is based on trust and its self-executing. in other words, you are a senior official to the president of the united states. not to donald trump but to -- and you represent our inte...

White house, in the situation room the chief of staff john kellys firing of her last january. from a security perspective, how is that even possible? >> well, because security in most of these instances is based on trust and its self-executing. in other words, you are a senior official to the president of the united states. not to donald trump but to -- and you represent our interests, yours and mine. the safety and security of this nation. and so there is embedded in that apparatus a sense that...

Time russians were snooping around. according to the justice departments special counsel investigation that included snooping around website of concern counties in georgia to identify vulnerabilities. lamb didnt know about the russians, but he did know having voting records so easily accessible was a problem. so he e-mailed and then he called georgias center for election systems, run out of this house on the campus of the university to warn them. six months later all that georgia voter data was ...

So people have said, well, its not a big deal. it is because when you dont really understand until you understand the full capability of the adversaries. >> you served in the nsa. the president has a phone. to our knowledge. we dont know the level of security on itment he gives the phone number to leaders around the world. theres been a lot of attention focused on the national security breach here and by the white house. what risk is the president putting both himself and the country in by using...

Hours. >> jason young was a very good witness. he understood what he had to do when he was on the stand. >> so he didnt come off as contrived or phony? like he had put this together very carefully in order to account for all the evidence that they had? >> he had access to police reports. all the discovery. he knew the states vulnerabilities. and so he could, arguably, tailor his testimony to fit with an innocent explanation. >> how did jason young do? 12 jurors were about to decide. >> but first...

The public to this now, and come up with standard operating procedures so if a website of lets say florida or ohio in the 2020 election gets hacked, election officials have a way to communicate with the public, the media and so on about what the real election results are. so were hoping that folks can take from this example that they should start of california attend and speak at the event and even trumps former cyber czar rob joyce who is now back at msa said that he was really happy we were do...

Theft and crash is it also reveals an enormous security issue. were lucky that only that man at the controls was involved. imagine if this commercial plane had been full of passengers. juliette kayyem. and scott miller a commercial pilot for 30 years. if this ground worker is able to grab a plane and take off how far is a stretch is it for someone with more sinister intentions to do the same thing. >> there is always going to be a risk in aviation and particularly from what would be known as an ...

Question that goes to congress and reviving congress again next week. big question. >> so, rick, with that said, what vulnerabilities did this highlight, do you think? not just, is it the airport, the airline? i mean, who are they really going to be looking more closely at here? >> well, every airport is different. so, theyre going to have to come up with specific guidelines for each airport. and the problem is, once somebody does this, he puts a lot of people at risk. one guy gets in one airpla...