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We're still talking about it a year after the election. >> we're talking about it tonight. point well taken. but i do want to put night a broader context. so a million dollars spent and robert mueller investigating. he may find out there was a lot more spent. we'll see. but a million dollars is what we found so far. i checked the numbers, in 2016, you know how much was spent on the election? 6.5 billion, with a b, 2.4 for the white house when you include republican, democratic primaries, general election, about 4 bill yonl for house and senate. 6.5 billion. these guys spent 1 million. was this...

It or what is the disconnect at this point between the president's refusal to just -- you know, as recently as his trip to poland he was still talking about how it could have been others. if we know that russians did get into the state election databases you say they don't know if they affected the results but they were in the databases, what is the current state of denial from the trump white house about russia's role? >> the denial is making us more vulnerable as we go into the 2018 elections. disunity in the united states has emboldened the russians and other countries who have similar capa...

This issue of whether or not he was being asked to stop the probe. >> mary anne: is not a democratic thing or republican thing, it's an american thing. i think you're going to see more reports about states like illinois and arizona and florida who did have their election databases hacked i did have the secretary of state's and other related institutions that have everything to do with election day had been hacked by the russians. wasn't just the dnc, rnc. in the election assistance center was hacked as well. that's the repository for every single voting machine in the country, every precinct, ...

Began scanning election databases in nearly two dozen states and this is really an indicator that the target was more widespread than previously recorded. >> as of right now, we have evidence of 21 states that were targeted. >> in no case were actual vote tallies altered in any way, shape, or form. >> that is correct. >> what we know publicly is that data was stolen or expo traded from at least two states, illinois and arizona. there is a lot of frustration on the senate side this morning that the other 19 states had not been publicly identified by homeland security. the fbi witness testified ...