a duty to tell the investing public what i know. >> how did you go about alerting the states, dhs go about alerting the states and local communities about what was going on? i know that you did the designation for critical infrastructure. what i'm trying to get at is, given your background and your recommendation that we do something more now to really alert the state and local governments, how do we do it now? what would you suggest would be a better way to go about alerting them? >> well, we did have an ongoing dialogue throughout the fall with state election officials at the law enforcement level with dhs, there was, of course, the public october 7 statement. but the conversation didn't stop there. i continued to issue public statements. we continued to have a dialogue with state officials as they came in to seek our cyber assistance. at the staff level.