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The presidential election. >> correct. >> do you stand by that? >> yes. thank you for that cl clarification. >> it's not the job of the intelligence agency to determine whether the information dumped had an affect on the outcome, only whether machines were impacted, not people? >> correct. you would need a social scientist to do that. >> i wanted to ask you about the information concerning potential coordination with the russians. are you aware of the basis -- we heard testimony that the fbi investigation was somewhat compartmentalized and director clapper wasn't fully aware of what went into ...

>> i would have to look at both lists. if you are saying impacts, were those states states that had their voter registration databases scanned and perhaps infiltrated? i would have to lock at both lists. i don't have that off the top of my head. >> what i'm wondering if any of the states most vocal in rejecting your help needed it the most. >> again, they didn't reject our help. 36 of them accepted our help. but they were resisting the idea of a designation to be critical infrastructu infrastructure, which i went ahead and did anyway. >> what would that have done in november or in october? wha...

Reaffirmed it. >> does that include the parties and the infrastructure around candidates or just the neck ibz mechanics of voting itself in. >> if you read the way i wrote the statement, it's pretty much confined to the election process itself. election infrastructure itself, not the politicians, not the political parties. >> thank you. my time expired. recognize the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, in the late summer of last year it became apparent that the russians were doing more than gathering for an intelligen intelligence, that they were dumping it in a way desi...

This is from open source reporting. i have read more recently. the fbi first discovered the intrusion -- that's my recollection. >> intrusion -- >> into the dnc. and i recall very clearly that there was a delay between that initial contact with the dnc and when the report got to me as secretary of dhs. it may have been that there were others at the staff level in dhs who were privy to this before it filtered up to me in an intelligence report. but that's my recollection. >> i was asking, let's ignore dnc. let's talk about the attempts at whatever the russians did with respect to the registrati...

Astatemea statement should come from the intelligence community. clapper was atop the intelligence community. separately, we wanted to put out a statement from dhs about what state election officials can do about this. again, encourage them to come to us at some point in the discussion, jim and i decided to make it a joint statement. that's what happened. >> there have been public reports in the last week or two that the russian infrastructure has been more widespread and may have affected dozens of states. what can you tell us about what was known at the time and what you know now in terms of...