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Statement, my prepared statement, thw first time i recall hearing about the hack into the dmc, i recall that it's been some months before i was learning of this, that the fbi and dnc have been in contact with each other about this. and i wasn't very happy to be learning about this several months later. >> there's two things going on. the dnc hack. what was the delay in the hacks, and the various voter registration systems. who discovered that, and how long was there a delay between that and your analogy? how is that the way between the infrastructure that we are

This was a very difficult decision but in my personal view, it's something we had to do. we had careful consideration on the discussion. my view was that we needed to do it, and need to do it before the election as far as what we knew and saw. and i'm glad we did it. every congressman, every big decision i've made in my time, somebody always criticizes you for doing it, and somebody else criticizes you for not doing it sooner. so when we made the statement on october 7th, i'm glad we did. i think the larger issue is that it did not get the public attention that initiative. the press was focuse...

Russians were meddling with the election? >> i'm going to disagree with your premise that there was a delay. this was a big decision, and there were a lot of considerations that went into i it. this was an unprecedented step. first as you know well, we have to carefully consider whether d classifying information and sources and methods. secondly, there was an ongoing election. that had to be carefully considered. one of the candidates as you recall, was predicting that the election was going to be rigged in some way. so we were concerned that by making the statement, we might in of itself, cha...