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The senate that has been co-sponsored by three republicans and three democrats that's just in an early stage, i think it has a lot of potential. the fact that we have democrats and republicans coming together to support it really highlights that this is not a political issue, this issue that's going to the core of our security and our democracy. anything that congress can get its act together to move on and really make a big impact in our national security, it's going to be securing our elections in time for 2018 and 2020. >> all right, let's see if they do it. alex and jack, thank you both. >...

Russians will probe, they'll look for weak spots and unfortunately, there are plenty of weak spots. this topic is so rich we could spend the next day talking about this, i don't know where to start. the tactics haven't changed, no. >> alex, does the federal government have a handle on their opponent here, the enemy in this, what jack calls, cold war 2.0, they have come out with some guidelines here, prevents unauthorized access or manipulation of communication data, audit records, are they approaching this wholistically. >> we're starting to see the beginnings of serious erts efforts that coul...

Break into the rolls back in 2016 >> i can't talk about classified information publicly. we saw targeted of 26 states. 21 were successfully penetrated. >> here to discuss what steps officials should be taking to protect elections. alex holderman and jack bartsky. gentlemen, good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> alex, let's start with you, senators will be hearing about the role they should have about protecting elections. the defense, is is that the right department to handle this? home land security do, what can defense do that homeland security doesn't do is the...

People don't know how to operate these things. that includes people like at the highest level in politics and government, remember the famous hack john podesta, his pass word was password. enough said. >> alex, what we're seeing this weekend with the denial from the white house to release the democrats' memo, i wonder what you see when you know the work that has to be done to protect the 2018, 2020 elections and the role that the house intel committee could have in that, and the back and forth just these two memos with all that's on their to-do list. >> what we need badly is resources to the s...