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Look at the vote, i think in the senate it's pretty clear. six republican senators voted for an independent commission, a fair, free, independent commission. equal number of republicans, democrats, model on the warren commission. it's the right thing to do. what we've seen, chuck, it isn't just the vote on the commission last week. we've seen a breakdown in trust and confidence in our institutions in this country over the last few years in our leaders. we've segmented our politics, we've polarized our society. and so you've got variations of each party. you've got the trump republicans, then y...

Come up with a plan. there's all these things. but if you look at how easy it is to do it, how prevalent it is across the nation, it really brings into question, chuck, how are we going to deal with this? we're not talking about just making sure it's as illegal in every country or the president and putin when they sit down together and talk about it. it's also about how are we going to get the administrators museums, hospitals, beverage suppliers, beef sufficient -- suppliers to sit down and talk about how cyberattacks are so rampant, chuck. >> and then what if there is an effort to attack the...

To do in 2020, reverse the outcome of a free and fair election. and i guess that's the question, how do you combat this? i don't know if a federal law can combat this. >> that's absolutely right, chuck. and thank you. and i would say it may not even take a close election. remember that if nobody gets 270 electoral votes on the first go around, the house of representatives voting by states will decide the outcome of a presidential election, and republicans, even if they don't win a majority in the house, have a majority of state delegations. so you can imagine states even using robust victory b...

Impunity in terms of any reaction from the kremlin. but it's more than that, chuck. it's also that they could be tasked, and this is the same situation in china as well where other cybercriminals can act with the indulgence of the chinese government, but also they can be given instructions, we want this data, we want this trade secret, we want you to infiltrate these government agents and provide us the data. so it's a symbiotic relationship between these governments and between these groups, and that ought to give us leverage to go after not just the groups but the countries that are hosting ...

The conversation is turning out to be a potentially important witness, but it's also pretty clear that whatever is going on with this case, we are months away from any kind of resolution of it, chuck. >> why do you say that? that was going to be my next question. is this something that's going to get resolved by labor day in some form or another with indictments, without indictments? is that the time frame we should be looking at here? >> i've never heard a specific date put on it. that's the question about labor day. a couple things are going on here. number one is they just got a conversatio...