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Fixed. and i think that that's really the thing that obsessed the obama administration as they were going into it. what we know now, though, is that attack didn't just happen in a half a dozen states or 20 states. the russians' signatures, the footprints of the russian hackers were found in systems, both local and state systems in 39 states, which is four out of five. that's pretty widespread. >> where did they succeed in messing up the list? i know when you go to vote, a woman oftentimes -- it's a volunteer -- opens up this big book and finds your name and underlines it and all of a sudden yo...

So trump once again playing into russian hands in a way that is so deeply damaging to his own country. >> are you confident, congressman, that the russians won't try on hack into the overall election system, the voting, if you will on november 8? and having an impact on the outcome? >> i don't think it can have an impact on the actual outcome because our state systems are so different and disparity. what worries me is that the, we've seen the russians do this in europe. it is not beyond either their capabilities or what they have done in practice. to get a last-minute dump e-mails that contain...

Holder, which led to a conviction. that case is certainly on appeal the u.s. circuit. but there is a pattern of the justice department being successful, not with standing the high bar that many talked about. so i think people, we all should respect, and i believe the attorney general is doing the absolute right thing by conducting a separate and independent investigation. and it's consistent with what the justice department has done in the past where state systems do not seem to be able to or unwilling to bring about justice. >> we're going to ask marc morial to stand by, the president and ceo...

State systems. it has nothing to do with the federal systems. so it isn't just congress. a lot of it has to do what's going on at the state level in republican and democratic states. so these folks are moving. texas, as i pointed out, is one of the leaders. but i cannot emphasize enough that i hope we're not just talking about saying to folks, good luck, see you later, you're free. that's not going to work. i teach at ucla in the winter time. my colleague out there has done some very good work on this. and it involves some structured handling of this so folks that are not only engaged in drug ...

Let's take a look at this first one that we have here. let's pull that up. got it? there we go. cms views october 1 connections to the nine states as a risk due to the fact that their document may not be submitted completely nor reviewed by october 1. we all know of course the significance of october 1, chris. >> right. basically the warning here was, nobody was quite sure whether even the core was secure, the matrix on the federal level where all, basically the largest trove of consumer kind of data that the federal government has ever put together in one place, that has so much information a...