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Investigations unit is led by a former fbi agent. they're investigating the reportive attempts to compromise vr systems incorporated, a florida firm whose electronic poll book software was used on election day in 21 of carolina's counties. it was checking voters in, not with counting their votes. quote, but on election day last year, that system failed in durham county, north carolina. and durham county, north carolina, holds the state's most reliably democratic voters. that forced the county to issue ballots by hand, meaning longer lines and delays, factors that can often depress turnout. aga...

Fraught right now. the chest pounding and physical shows of force that we're getting from russia and vladimir putin just over the past few days, they range from, frankly, ridiculous, and funny, to legitimately threatening and scary. while all that stuff gets acted out in some new way every day now, today in washington there was a serious effort to try to nail down the exact scope of how russia attacked our presidential election last year. and this wasn't so much about the attack on the democratic party's servers and on the clinton campaign staff. we've heard a lot about those attacks. today on...

If they're vulnerable to exfiltration, are they also vunerable to the uncertainty created about whether someone was eligible to vote? >> yes, and yes. to both your questions. >> former homeland security secretary jay johnson testified today in congress. now the man asking him that last question, congressman adam schiff on the intelligence committee. appreciate your time being here tonight, sir. thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> do you have clarity -- does our government have clarity on how widespread the attack was on our election systems last year, on things like voting roles that ...

Counties next door? is that the kind of thing that happened nationwide? is there a pattern of that kind of thing? is it because dallas is a famous county that you might have heard of if you only speak russian? we don't know. that was just a spot check. that was spot check reporting from the "dallas morning news" about what happened in their locality. and that's kind of what we've got so far. "the wall street journal" has also been trying to report out the scope and the shape of the russian attack to see whether this russian attack last year could conceivably have affected our ability to vote, ...

Who's in charge of keeping this safe? lots and lots and lots of different people all around the country. that said, there's also a benefit of us having this decentralized system, for a determined adversary who is trying to affect the technical side of our election infrastructure. no one attack will do it. you can't just hit one spot. you've got to hit a whole bunch of different places. maybe ones that you've chosen quite strategically. take, for example, dallas, texas. texas, of course, famously is a very red state. but dallas county is a very blue county. dallas county voted in the november e...