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Time. if i say something you may disagree with, it's just in the interest of time. i want to see if we can get some things out of the way that we all agree on. russia has a history of cyberattacks against our country. is that true? >> yes. >> and the former jobs, russia would be considered a career offender as it it comes to seeking to undermine the foundations of our republic. they're constantly trying to attack the foundations of our republic. is that fair? >> i think that is a fair statement. >> they're a career offender. a history of cyberattacks on our country. we suspected before the -- ...

Simple. >> but with respect to efforts to hack into the dnc and other political organizations, yes, very clearly. >> all right. >> correct. >> well, this is, i guess what i'm getting at, they're a career offender when it comes to attacking the foundation of our republic. 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 were...

The summer of '156789 we became aware of that activity. shared it with our fbi teammates. that continues. we try to make sure that the insights we generate are shared with our law enforcement teammates who then interagent with the private sector. we are trying to work broadly across the u.s. government to increase cyber security. as you heard discussed ongoing discussions about what is the role of the voting infrastructure in the united states in terms of critical infrastructure. do we need to bring that within the critical infrastructure framework. i know that topic has been going on some per...

'15. we became aware of that activity, shared it with our fbi teammates. that continues. we tried to make sure the insights we generate are shared with our law enforcement teammates who interact with the private sector. we're trying to work broadly across the u.s. government to increase cyber security. as you heard discussed ongoing discussions about what's the role of the voting infrastructure in the united states in terms of critical infrastructure. we need to bring that within the critical infrastructure framework. know that topic has been ongoing for some period of time. >> director comey?...