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This russian attack last year could conceivably have affected our ability to vote, in addition to the stuff that we understand better now, like the russian propaganda, and russian leaked documents and the rest of it. could it have affected the way we voted technically? the journal said they started surveying election officials in nearly every state in the country to start asking these questions. they now started to report out their findings, and here's what they report out of north carolina. quote, the north carolina state board of elections investigations unit is led by a former fbi agent. th...

We try to figure out how ambitious and damaging their attacks were on our election system, part of the reason it's hard to get a handle on it is because there's no one person in charge of defending our whole election system. no one person in charge of defending and monitoring the safety of all the zillions of little local election systems we've got all over the country. it makes it hard to figure out. that's kind of a down side of the decentralation. 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 ...

About against a couple of states, it actually had been against 39 states. russian cyber attacks much wider than previously known. then today there was this testimony in congress, and homeland security officials, testifying in congress today. they had a whole new number. and a whole new description of how big that attack was, and what the russians actually went after. they said today that it's 21 states that the russians attacked. okay. okay then, sure. >> are we prepared today to say publicly how many states were targeted? >> as of right now, we have 21 states -- election related systems in 21...

That is a fact, plain and simple. >> why do you think that president trump will not state that russia meddled in our elections? >> you would have to ask him, sir. >> you say the voter registration data bases are vulnerable to exfiltration. if they're vulnerable to exfiltration, are they also vunerable to the uncertainty whether someone was eligible to vote? >> yes, and yes. to both your questions. >> former homeland security secretary jeh johnson testified today in congress. now the man asking him that last question, congressman adam schiff on the intelligence committee. appreciate your time b...

>> are we prepared today to say publicly how many states were targeted? >> as of right now, we have 21 states -- election related systems in 21 states that were targeted. >> internet related networks in 21 states were potentially targeted by russian government cyber actors. >> okay. that was the word from homeland security officials today, 21 states. bloomberg a few days ago citing three sources it was 39 states. the public statement from the government already about the two states that were named states, arizona and illinois. but in terms of figuring this out, and figuring out how big this at...