attack, it was multiple attempts. he told the dallas morning news, quote, the fact that there were that many attempts means they expected to disrupt, if you disrupt the voter file, when people are trying to validate voter information at the polls, you would get mass confusion. the dallas morning news reported on these attacks a few days ago, they contacted a couple of republican-leaning counties just outside dallas county to see if they went through the same thing. they contacted the election administrators in collin county and ter rent county right next door to dallas county. election administrators in those counties, as far as they could tell, they didn t get attacked. tarrant county, that votes republican, the election administrator there said he, too, scanned his county system to see if any of those 600 ip addresses had tried to mount any attacks, or try to attack their system. said he didn t get a single match. why did these russian hackers only attack the democratic county an
door to dallas county. election administrators in those counties, as far as they could tell, they didn t get attacked. tarrant county, that votes republican, the election administrator there said he, too, scanned his county system to see if any of those 600 ip addresses had tried to mount any attacks, or try to attack their system. said he didn t get a single match. why did these russian hackers only target the democratic county and not the republican counties next door? is that the kind of thing that happened nationwide? is there a pattern of that kind of thing? is it because dallas is a famous county that you might have heard of if you only speak russian? we don t know. that was just a spot check. that was spot check reporting from the dallas morning news about what happened in their locality. and that s kind of what we ve got so far. the wall street journal has also been trying to report out the scope and the shape of the russian attack to see whether
say they re not doing enough to punish criminals. shannon, there are so in exacerbating factors contributing to chicago s crime and murder rate. one thing we hear over and over again is the judicial system here is just soft and that prosecutors and judges are using the laws on the books to lock up criminals pulling the trigger. the county system largest in the country is traditionally very soft on most gun charges particularly illegal possession. if you shoot somebody or kill somebody they re tough like anybody else but otherwise it s very much a joke. we pulled the stats on gun prosecutions in chicago and compared them to other cities and it seems criticism of the judicial system may be warranted. in 2016 the u.s. attorney in chicago prosecuted 123 gun crimes many still active in the court and kansas city has a fraction of the city and it
find her. we foundner a church. we couldn t get anybody from the system, from the state or the county system to talk to us. we found her. she has been collecting for five years. she was a mother. she was married and while she was married she had never worked. so when she got divorced, she got custody of her two children, she had no work experience. she couldn t get a job. there was nothing that she could do to make money so she went to the welfare system. she does hope to be off of it some day. she is in nursing school. she says if you are getting these programs, it s very difficult to encourage yourself to work. why would you want to deal with traffic? why would you want to be away from your family or deal with a boss? bill: absolutely. we would point out the nursing school is paid for by the taxpayers as well. chris, good job. thank you very much. scott: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. the department of defense refusing to give purple hearts to the survi
find her. we foundner a church. we couldn t get anybody from the system, from the state or the county system to talk to us. we found her. she has been collecting for five years. she was a mother. she was married and while she was married she had never worked. so when she got divorced, she got custody of her two children, she had no work experience. she couldn t get a job. there was nothing that she could do to make money so she went to the welfare system. she does hope to be off of it some day. she is in nursing school. she says if you are getting these programs, it s very difficult to encourage yourself to work. why would you want to deal with traffic? why would you want to be away from your family or deal with a boss? bill: absolutely. we would point out the nursing school is paid for by the taxpayers as well. chris, good job. thank you very much. scott: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. the department of defense refusing to give purple hearts to the survi