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The past election. when they say there is no evidence that that happened, they haven't been looking for any evidence of that and they have no plan to look for any evidence of that. if as many as 21 states or other reports say 39 states were targeted by russian hackers and those were the election systems of the states, is it worth looking into what the impact was of those intrusions, whether they left any mal-ware behind and whether any voting machines were effected tlx is no evidence provided that that has happened. nobody has looked for that evidence. and while nobody was talking about that w...

Put mal-ware or back doors or anything else in our computer systems, our election systems that will allow them easier access next time? no comment. we are all delighted that whatever the russians were doing messing around in the voting systems in more than 20 tates last year, at least they didn't blow things up on election day as far as we could tell. but could they? could they have last year? were they putting mal-ware in there so they could do it in the future if they want to? that was on wednesday. now today there is some thfrom the washington post, this opus that lays out the concern that ...

It was wednesday this week when homeland security security officials testified that they knew of 21 states that got some election systems targeted by the russian attack last year. at that hearing on wednesday, there was a key moment that made me gulp, but that doesn't get much pickive up. it is real quick. check this out. it is susan collins, watch what she asks her and then watch the response from the fbi guy. >> is there any evidence that the russians haven't planned mal-ware or back doors or other computer techniques to allow them easier access next time to our election systems? >> i'm sorr...

Bringing in cnn correspondent claire sebastian joining us from new york. how did this take off? >> it's one hack that led toing to, we believe this stems from a set of data that leaked online from a u.s. national security agency back in april, they were the first to discover putting this expert in the window of the system and that was used as the attack. microsoft has published a fix to this but people hadn't yet updated their commuter. what happened the mal ware was able to spread and scan the internet for the people that didn't have the security fix and infect them. that's why you see so man...

Updates. how did this all get stopped? >> there was a 22-year-old private security research erg in the uk who was looking into this. he was saying for the mal ware to spread it had to communicate with an unregistered demain. he registered it had domain and stopped the mal ware. this is only a temporary fix, experts say we are not out of the woods yet, somebody can come in and rewrite the code and have it registered with different unregistered domain. for the moment we believe it stopped. >> feel like it impacted big businesses, governments, entities, hospitals universities, i heard something a...