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Impact or any votes were changed. we don't know how many voters might have been turned away, because in some way their election record, their registration records, were deleted from the state systems. that may have happened, and if it happened in wisconsin, ohio, in one. few states that was a swing state, that could have changed the election outcome, and maybe that's why donald trump isn't doing anything to confront putin. i think his meeting should begin and end with a demand for extradition of the 12 people just indicted who are russian government agents. they need to be brought to stand tri...

Russians did once they got into these systems. we're dealing with state systems. we're dealing with computer systems that aren't very good at creating audit trails. so you don't really know in a lot of the systems. a lot of companies don't have this where you can tell when someone hacks in. what did they look at. what did they manipulate. what did they take. we do not know. not going to show up in this indictment. i don't think the investigators can give us an answer to this. as to whether or not they change votie ining rolls. whether or not they changed votes, we don't know. >> or they could ...

Year, the way the russians were trying to target specific states. in one instance, according to this indictment, they were able to get into the systems of one particular state. they stole the information, about a half million voters, their drivers license numbers, date of birth. it doesn't say, it doesn't allege what they did with this. it says there is no information to indicate they are changing the vote counts. obviously, this is the big concern as you watch an operation like this, for an intelligence service to hack into the state systems. really the nuts and bolts of the american election...

That system has pictures in it from previous convictions, which he had. a misdemeanor conviction for harassing people online. this woman that he knew from high school, and it also has department of motor vehicle pictures. your license plate mug shot. driver's license mug shot. using that technology is how they figured who he was that led to the search and gave them a much faster headstart on this investigation. >> pete, that facial recognition technology you're talking about is not unique to maryland, as i understand it. >> reporter: no. >> do we know how widespread this technology is? do we k...

Going to anchor the midterms and the next presidential election. and so in that context, is there any way for viewers watching us tonight who are now uneasy and worried about the sanctity of our elections, is there any way you can assure anyone that quiet things have been done, perhaps out of public view, behind the scenes, to fortify our system of elections? >> we do know that the department of homeland security has indeed been working with various states and offered briefings, and the states are listening. that's all good. the not so good news is that the department of homeland security has ...