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Deal with. i do think that there are ways of, i believe, blocking some of the impact of russian interference. tech companies like facebook and twitter can do more to prevent interference, journalists can do more to highlight the issue. but i do actually fundamentally agree with secretary tillerson that if the russians decide that they're going to try to interfere in our election, they're going to try to do that. and there's not much that we can do to stop them. >> i don't know why that's the case. because, after interviewing homeland security, jay johnson in the past, where they pro-actively a...

Senators harris and graham, that basically says lets help states in this next election to have stronger voting infrastructure with backup paper ballots and things that will really protect us from hacking. you've got democrats and republicans in the house supporting it. we could potentially get this on in the next month. former secretary chertoff did a piece in "the wall street journal" supporting my work in this area. and i think we must help the states because this would only be 3% of the cost of one aircraft carrier. when you've got russia viewing it as a type of cyber warfare. we just can't...

Things that we're going to do is we're going to make sure more hardworking taxpayers have more money in their pockets by continuing to do tax reform. we're going to make sure we continue to have strong national security. you know, the fact that nine months from -- it's been nine months and we're talking about the defeat of isis and looking at how do we, you know, change the tide of problems in afghanistan. these are the things that i'm focused on. you know, i've missed some of this back and forth and tit for tat because i was in a hearing looking at how do we, you know, protect our voting infr...

It's just in the interest of time i want to see if we can get some things out of the way that we agree on. russia has a history of cyberattacks against our country. is that true? >> yes. >> the parlance of our former jobs, russia would be considered a career offender as it comes to seeking to undermine the foundations of our republican? they are constantly trying to attack the foundations of our republic, is that fair? >> i think that's a fair statement. >> so they're a career offender. they have a history of cyberattacks on our country. we suspected before the -- >> as do others. >> yes, sir....

With respect to efforts to hack into the dnc and other political organizations, yes, very clearly. correct. >> this is i guess what i'm getting at. they're a career offender when it cop comes to abeing taing. they have a history of cyberattacks on our country. you warned before the elections that they may attack our voting infrastructure. after the election, president obama took steps to target russia and you took steps to consider our voting apparatus to be critical infrastructure. given what we knew before the election, what more could we have done and should we have done? we weren't surpris...