>> so ambassador burns, if they had the weight of the white house behind them, how much would that change things for the intelligence community in terms of doing something? >> it would help enormously. you have to raise the defense of this country, and that's complicated. it's our states and local authorities who run the elections, so you have to have that dialogue, a federal, local, state dialogue. number two, you want to send a stiff message to the russian federation that we're not going to tolerate this kind of attack on our ore down country. you want to work with the europeans to tighten up what the nato alliance can do. you want to find and prosecute hackers. if the russian government is subcontracting this to some of the private hacking organizations in that country. there's so much that has to be done. this should have been the first executive order signed january 20th. you ought to -- they ought to