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The trust in our intelligence community's assessments. i think overall it does more harm than good. >> frank, i'm speaking to you from the studio where we anchored the last presidential election. this is the studio where we're 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 kn...

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 chosen a posture to say it's up to the local state systems, state legislators, to figure this out and secure the election. i don't see the degree of federal intervention and help to do this, to include possibly funding. what concerns me is it only takes a few key states to be hacked and/or corrupted, and it doesn't have to be to change the vote. think of the scenario where you show up to vote at your usually polling place and you're told we d...

Hacking attempts. >> joining me now senior congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. there's been a lot out of this hearing, manu? >> reporter: that's right. the administration defending its response on how exactly to deal with the threat going forward and members themselves of this committee issuing a series of recommendations. they believe the states should take ahead of the 2018 elections to ensure that nothing happens like this again. one thing that they are debating here, whether or not enough was done in 2016 to ensure that the state prevented russian efforts to influence th...

>> our desire to be able to fully fund the elections within an individual state but it's a state's responsibility. if there's incentives we can put in place to spur them, it's the people of the states going to their state leaders and saying we want our election to be secure and to be able to take care of it in their own state will be the primary piece. >> reporter: aware of the best practices and equipment available. >> one of our recommendations is we figure out how to aud it and what states get the help when requested. >> reporter: they want to see state systems and have a back-up paper ball...

Anybody has taken any of the data that's in there. i'm very skeptical when they say that no votes were changed and no voters were taken off the rolls. did spomebody take a paper list of voters and compare it against what was that there? i doubt it. if they're putting it on a data system, they probably don't have a paper list of the voters. >> how do the recent indictments of 13 russians and three companies play into this? what can the united states do? it's not like the russians will get arrested. >> or walk into a police station. >> that's not going to happen. even if they indicted the russia...