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Members of congress heard a chilling account of the russian interference in the election. an official at the department of homeland security confirmed publicly for the first time, election systems in 21 states were targeted by russian hackers. there's no evidence that any actual ballots were changed. but here's the thing. witnesses warn that hackers will be back. appearing before the house panel today, president obama's form he homeland security secretary jay johnson said he personally contacted the associated press before election day to review the security of their vote counting. maintaining...

Michelle's writing from the tears perspective, you're basically saying, stop crying, it's not so bad. what's your general read here? >> you have to adjust your point of view of what's going to happen for the party with everything that happens. in this election, it was worse for the democrats by a few points than they expected. but the whole run of special elections, the democrats have had, has been very positive for them, on average, as dave wasserman found for 538. the party has outperformed its partisan lean of its districts by eight points. now, if it could just keep on this eight-point imp...

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...

Doing something about it. >> orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of affecteding our election. now the key question for the president and the congress is, what are we going to do to protect the american people and their democracy from this kind of thing in the future? >> testimony came 24 hours later. i'm joined now by michael isikoff. i saw your write up, there were a lot of stunning moments. to have it confirmed that election voet vendors and the systems being targeted is really something. >> these are both fairly informative hearings that did advance the ball about what ...

Counting. maintaining they wanted to avoid the appearance of political interference, and pointing to claim by then candidate trump the election would be rigged. johnson was unequivocal about who was responsible for the hacking and the urge ency of doing something about it. >> orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of affecteding our election. now the key question for the president and the congress is, what are we going to do to protect the american people and their democracy from this kind of thing in the future? >> testimony came 24 hours later. i'm joined now by michael isi...