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State conference with the u.s. officials offering to detonate state election systems as critical infrastructure he gets the blow back, push back from state elections system saying no we dont want a federal take over as our election so as a result he put it on the back burner. >> why would they target those specific states was there something about the election systems? >> well, we dont know for sure. the two we know were penetrated was arizona, which is purple state, leans red. and illinois whic...

The vulnerabilities are and what they might conceivably do. >> during the sound bite, i just realized something. that the president and i looked an awful lot alike today. >> bright red tie on. >> in this edition of "who wore it best." >> you, don. you have worn it best. >> thank you, both. i appreciate it. when we come back, the democratic congressman who challenged nancy pelosi. he says his own partys brand is toxic. what he thinks it will take to start winning again. somewhere along the grea...

Author. thank you. >> julie: apple cleaning up its app store with some new bylines for app makers, what does that mean for the companys customers? will tell you. plus, former homeland security secretary testifying on capitol hill about russian meddling in our elections last year. concept former d.a. secretary johnson agrees with. >> last year, a very troubling experience highlights cyber vulnerabilities in our political process. in our election infrastructure. looking good. but when it comes to ...

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...

Lives affected. could this affect other people living their daily lives in the cumulative nature of these smaller attacks? >> exactly. that is what weve never been able to monitor here in the united states. israelis are used to this, for example, but a smaller scale terrorism in which you just sort of thhave that surprise element from day to day. weve had the bigger ones like 9/11 that are large and can therefore sort of understand them. if you go to the airport or a shopping mall, we in the uni...

Some of this may be a little redundant. im trying to really better understand how all the entities have come together. can you briefly summarize dhs role in cyber defense? >> to summarize it, we had the agency of the u.s. government responsible for asset response. responsible for working with other federal agencies and the private sector in identifying vulnerabilities, patching rayra and we are the portal through which information should pass to the u.s. government. thats it in a summary. >> wit...

Strikes me as a crime. >> yes. >> the dnc was the victim of a crime. im trying to understand why the victim of a crime would not turn over evidence to you and juim comey who were apolitical and come from apolitical backgrounds. >> im sure at some point in the time line they did do that. my point earlier was that in the initial period i was not satisfied that we were able to get in there ourselves, dhs, to help them identify the bad actor and patch the vulnerabilities. im sure at some point the f...

Governmental entity and they didnt accept that. i find that hard to comprehend. >> my interest in helping them was definitely a non-partisan interest. >> i know that. >> i recall very clearly that i was not pleased that we were not in there helping them patch this vulnerability. the nature -- when you are dealing with private actors and even political organizations, we dont -- dhs does not have the power to issue a suearch warran and patch vulnerabilities. >> was there any significant intelligen...

Strikes me as a cry. >> yes. >> so, the dnc was the victim of a crime. i am trying to understand why the victim of a crime would not turn over evidence to you and jim comey who were both a political and come from political backgrounds. >> im sure at some point in the timeline they did do that. my point earlier was that in the initial period, i was not satisfied that we were able to get in there ourselves. dhs. to help them identify the bad actor and patch the vulnerabilities. im sure at some poi...

Dhs. and i find it very hard to comprehend. >> my interest in helping them was definitely a nonpartisan interest. >> i know that. >> and i recall very clearly that i was not pleased that we were not in there helpingvulner. when youre dealing with political organizations, we dont, dhs does not have the power to issue a search warrant or get a search warrant and go in and patch their vulnerabilities over their objections. >> moving ahead, was there any significant intelligence or information that ...