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Were targets are cyber intrusions and voter data bases during the 2016 election. have you heard at all from the trump administration regarding that and regarding making sure that the elections go off without a hitch and that our systems and states are not interfered with. >> i think that's a really good point. and for me, personally, if this election integrity commission were interested in looking into this very real issue that we know really happened, we know that russia attempted to hack voter registration data bases. we know that russia did quite a few things to interfere with elections. an...

Making sure we get information to our allies on the homeland security committee. i set on a task force last year that looked at foreign fighters. these are americans going in to iraq and syria fighting with isis and coming back. and some of the things that we learn that our european partners weren't checking the travel documents of every known traveler. they were checking one out of every three which is crazy. we also found they weren't checking the names of known travelers against watch list information that we had been providing. if we get the right information to the right people at the rig...

And multiple jurisdictions, thousands of jurisdictions. it doesn't take much to have an impact. if fact the russians got in the data bases, and they did in two states. illinois and arizona. in illinois, there was 76,000 voters whose information was compromised. all you have to do is change a few digits in those voter registration efforts and then people go to the polls and they couldn't, there would be confusion at the polls. now, that didn't happen. but the potential for real havoc is there. >> all right. thank you for your time. >> still to come, news sign that the mueller investigation is g...

The hearing, not just johnson's testimony but other witnesses, these are systems very distributed. they're different vendors. different localities and different states. and they are penetratable. >> some people took solace in the fact to change outcome of an election would be extremely difficult. because the election system is so diffuse and run on state and local levels. and multiple jurisdictions, thousands of jurisdictions. it doesn't take much to have an impact. if fact the russians got in the data bases, and they did in two states. illinois and arizona. in illinois, there was 76,000 voter...

This is our process, our sovereign responsibility, we're not interested in the federal takeover. >> doesn't the federal government have an interest in the integrity of these elections? >> i think the american public, the nation has an interest in the integrity of the election and i think you federally elected officials have an interest in the integrity of the elections that result in you sitting here, yes. but i think that we need to continue now that the campaign is over, maybe in odd years, if we could find a way to raise awareness when the temperature is down, maybe through grants encourage...