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It worked, which is two years after the fact not what you want to hear. >> meaning this got sent out to a bunch of state election systems. >> correct. >> we know that for a fact? >> the nsa assessed it was well over a hundred. >> we don't know who opened. >> correct. >> i guess i want some definitive ruling. there's always the reporting where they attempted to gain entry into state voter files. i also want a definitive ruling, were they successful? did they get in there? did they change data? do we have an answer to that? >> no. and it's been two years since this happened. almost two years. it...

They're not accountable to voters. >> is there oversight in place from a computer and tech security standpoint to make sure malcolm used the word audit. is there some protocol in place, have states implemented something where they are g to check to make sure the # security on these systems meets some set of standards? >> there is nothing nationally that has been done in a rigorous manner. i think a lot of this is left to the states and the individual counties to do their best on a county by county basis. but that's clearly lacking because we still don't have answers in june, 2018. >> there's a...

Been treated, malcolm. were state voter systems comprised. were they compromised? and by who? do people still have access to them? was any data within them changed. there are no answers, apparently. >> there are no answers and they don't want to have answers. we're about to go into an election season with the exact same systems in place with also you have to remember you have half a country that doesn't believe any of this took place and has no legitimacy. >> right. >> so we're in trouble. >> yes, i think something that was really telling is when i went to vr systems, the vendor in question. >...

Effective as preventing votes from being cast in the first place. >> if you could wave a magic wand, what would you do here? >> i would have a giant national public/private partnership where we took the threat seriously where we used the 2016 model and extrapolate all of those little probe scans and attempts are part of a large scale foreign adversary active measure. and then we would attack it directly. >> sam biddle and malcolm e, thanks for joining us. up next, the trump world defense of scott pruitt. the local news stations were forced to run it. >> these distractions, these issues that ...