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The presidential election. >> correct. >> do you stand by that? >> yes. thank you for that cl clarification. >> its not the job of the intelligence agency to determine whether the information dumped had an affect on the outcome, only whether machines were impacted, not people? >> correct. you would need a social scientist to do that. >> i wanted to ask you about the information concerning potential coordination with the russians. are you aware of the basis -- we heard testimony that the fbi inve...

>> i would have to look at both lists. if you are saying impacts, were those states states that had their voter registration databases scanned and perhaps infiltrated? i would have to lock at both lists. i dont have that off the top of my head. >> what im wondering if any of the states most vocal in rejecting your help needed it the most. >> again, they didnt reject our help. 36 of them accepted our help. but they were resisting the idea of a designation to be critical infrastructu infrastructur...

Reaffirmed it. >> does that include the parties and the infrastructure around candidates or just the neck ibz mechanics of voting itself in. >> if you read the way i wrote the statement, its pretty much confined to the election process itself. election infrastructure itself, not the politicians, not the political parties. >> thank you. my time expired. recognize the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, in the late summer of last year it became apparent that the russians wer...

This is from open source reporting. i have read more recently. the fbi first discovered the intrusion -- thats my recollection. >> intrusion -- >> into the dnc. and i recall very clearly that there was a delay between that initial contact with the dnc and when the report got to me as secretary of dhs. it may have been that there were others at the staff level in dhs who were privy to this before it filtered up to me in an intelligence report. but thats my recollection. >> i was asking, lets igno...

Astatemea statement should come from the intelligence community. clapper was atop the intelligence community. separately, we wanted to put out a statement from dhs about what state election officials can do about this. again, encourage them to come to us at some point in the discussion, jim and i decided to make it a joint statement. thats what happened. >> there have been public reports in the last week or two that the russian infrastructure has been more widespread and may have affected dozens...

Fireman. how was that delay? >> my recollection is from open source reporting i read more recently. is that the fbi first discovered the intrusion. thats my recollection. >> intrusion of the state systems? >> into the dnc. >> okay. >> the -- and i recall very clearly that there was a delay between that initial contact with the dnc and when the report got to me as secretary of dhs. it may had been that there were others at the staff level in dhs who were privy to this before it filtered up to me ...

Heard before directly from the intelligence community. the only thing i would have on that is derivative of what the intelligence has and law enforcement community. >> speaking of the intelligence community, it strikes me that most of the information currently available was available in the fall of 2016. most of the intelligence products that are relied upon to form certain assessments, that underlying data was available in 2016. some of it before the election. >> im not in a position to agree o...

As welg. a couple things. there were allegations by one of the campaigns, the trump campaign, that the process was rigged. the allegation wasnt that it was being rigged by a foreign power. why wasnt it more important to tell the american people the length and breadth of what the russians were doing to interfere in an election than any risk that it might be seen as putting your hand on the scale? didnt the public have a compelling need to know, notwithstanding the claims made by a campaign about ...