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Targeted by the russian effort ahead of the election to target voting infrastructure. i'm concerned it's taken the department of homeland security a year and a half to respond to the state in terms of trying to get help on this. >> this is ran area in terms of the voting instruct of deep interest to us but also to the homeland security committee which has done great work in looking at our vulnerabilities going forward. in terms of how many answers we've been able to get in the intelligence committee, we've been able to get some. and, you know, the justice department has started to provide us d...

Puts is seem gll squarelied you your oversight as chairman of house intelligence. one of the things you and i have talked about over the past few weeks and months is that thing that ought to be under your purview, that the intelligence agencies and the fbi ought to be briefing to you as chairman of the intelligence committee if not to your full committee, just have been kept from you. and i guess i wonder if there's any evolution in that in terms of you understanding what you haven't been told that you ought to have been told and if you've been able to make any progress with getting the breegs...

Improve or replace old and broken-down voting machines. california is pushing for a full update to its machines in time for the 2020 election. nbc news senior investigative and legal correspondent cynthia mcfadden joins me now from new york. hey, cynthia. >> hey, geoff. it's absolutely right. california is really leading the way. the secretary of state in california has ordered that all of the 58 districts, voting districts in the state, all of the counties upgrade all their voting machines. it's expensive. los angeles county is spending $100 million to do it. we did a story about them a coupl...

Rises to the level of criminal conspiracy. whether they violated the law. you can collude without violating the law. and i know the senate intelligence committee came out and said they found no direct evidence of criminal conspiracy, but that's not the sentence intelligence committee, it's the fbi and the special counsel's team to do the criminal investigation. i was hoping that the senate intelligence committee was going to look at what the russians actually did. how did the government respond? the intelligence community, the law enforcement community. what can we do to better prepare ourselv...

Massive disinformation campaign from russia. 2018 the mid terms did go relatively smoothly. coats did make an effort to note that there has been no evidence that the any of the voting infrastructure has been hacked into. but he is very much sounding a warning here as we look ahead to 2020 not just saying that the landscape could look very different, that the tactics that are going to be used could look very different, but that it might not just be russia. russia will not only expand the tactics used before, but that china is getting involved certainly from an economic perspective. we can see i...