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This indictment, alleging they, the russians, were hacking a website of a state board of elections and stealing information not about 100 or 1,000 voters but half a million of them. names, addresses, parts of their social security number, dates of birth, i.d. numbers. what state did that happen in? what happened to that information? this indictment doesn't tell us that tonight, but half a million voters is a lot. it could have an impact on a state like, say, michigan, ch was decided by just 10,704 votes. indictment also raises new questions about this moment in the 2016 campaign. >> russia, if...

>> here's my question. when you talk about this 40 years of this, which i think is a good time frame. you start to look at what happens right around the 1970s, a real shift in the economy, away from middle class towards the 1%, if that's the case, why was it this year? right, when people talk about factories moving overseas, that's been going on for years. barack obama won a state like, he won kenosha twice. you had bill clinton who was, you know, a real proponent of free trade, winning two elections in a row. if those are the trends that drove this outcome, why did it all erupt this year. >> ...

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Result of that. there's a lot of information on this graf, but don't be scared. a state like mississippi, the very low union membership rate, 5% of the state's work force in a union. the current budget shortfall is about 16% of their budget. a state like new york on the other hand a very high union membership rate, 25% of its work force. their budget shortfall is pretty much the same as mississippi's. one state has lots of union members, the other has very few, and it's the same deficit. now, that was for overall union membership, not to just public sector membership. let's check that part of ...

What you're looking at is a result of that. there's a lot of information on this graf, but don't be scared. a state like mississippi, the very low union membership rate, 5% of the state's work force in a union. the current budget shortfall is about 16% of their budget. a state like new york on the other hand a very high union membership rate, 25% of its work force. their budget shortfall is pretty much the same as mississippi's. one state has lots of union members, the other has very few, and it's the same deficit. now, that was for overall union membership, not to just public sector membershi...