russian hack, got rebuffed, and then when he had this remarkable phone conference with state election officials, offering assistance, offering to designate state election systems as critical infrastructure, he gets this blowback from state election officials saying, no, you know, we don't want a federal takeover of our elections, so as a result, he put it all on the back burner. >> why would they target those specific states? was it something about their election systems? >> we don't know for sure. the two we know were penetrated were arizona, which is a purple state, leans red, and illinois, which is a blue state. and there are 21 states and we don't know who they were. the general theory is that the russians with russian were probing, exploring possible manipulations they could do, that there may not have been a fixed idea to switch the vote in any particular state. they just wanted to see where