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 don't 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 don't know for sure. the two we know were penetrated was arizona, which is purple state, leans red. and illinois which is a blue state. there are 21 other states and we don't know who they were. but the general theory is that the republicans were probing, they were exploring possible manipulations that they could do, that there may not have been a fixed idea and switched the vote in a particular state. themmed to see where the vulnerabilities are and what they might do.