be going. if this commission wants to be serious about addressing important election relate issues, it should be addressing the issue of russia and the question of its interference in the 2016 general election, whether it actually successfully hacked any of our data bases and what it can do to protect that moving forward. we ll see if the president brings that up on friday. thank you very much. coming up, time is running out. cutter is staring down a deadline hours away to meet a list of demands from other states, mainly saudi arabia. it must meet these demands to lift the boycott of the tiny country. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,. isn t it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it s time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it s a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin
were targets are cyber intrusions and voter data bases during the 2016 election. have you heard at all from the trump administration regarding that and regarding making sure that the elections go off without a hitch and that our systems and states are not interfered with. i think that s a really good point. and for me, personally, if this election integrity commission were interested in looking into this very real issue that we know really happened, we know that russia attempted to hack voter registration data bases. we know that russia did quite a few things to interfere with elections. and the 2016 general election. so i think it would be really important if they commission wanted to pursue looking in to how we could continue to protect our voter registration systems and our other election systems from potential hacking. that would seem to be a really good use of this commission s potential time rather than, you know, casting aspersions and
making sure we get information to our allies on the homeland security committee. i set on a task force last year that looked at foreign fighters. these are americans going in to iraq and syria fighting with isis and coming back. and some of the things that we learn that our european partners weren t checking the travel documents of every known traveler. they were checking one out of every three which is crazy. we also found they weren t checking the names of known travelers against watch list information that we had been providing. if we get the right information to the right people at the right time, we keep terrorists on the run and off our shores. and so there are other pieces of legislation that we should be focused on. i just introduced some legislation to do just that. steve: tell us a little bit about it. well, it allows us to share open source software with our allies that improve sharing amongst the various data bases that we use. steve: good.
and multiple jurisdictions, thousands of jurisdictions. it doesn t take much to have an impact. if fact the russians got in the data bases, and they did in two states. illinois and arizona. in illinois, there was 76,000 voters whose information was compromised. all you have to do is change a few digits in those voter registration efforts and then people go to the polls and they couldn t, there would be confusion at the polls. now, that didn t happen. but the potential for real havoc is there. all right. thank you for your time. still to come, news sign that the mueller investigation is gaining momentum. and senator al franken on whether the attorney general is avoiding testifying in front of
the hearing, not just johnson s testimony but other witnesses, these are systems very distributed. they re different vendors. different localities and different states. and they are penetratable. some people took solace in the fact to change outcome of an election would be extremely difficult. because the election system is so diffuse and run on state and local levels. and multiple jurisdictions, thousands of jurisdictions. it doesn t take much to have an impact. if fact the russians got in the data bases, and they did in two states. illinois and arizona. in illinois, there was 76,000 voters whose information was compromised. all you have to do is change a few digits in those voter registration efforts and then people go to the polls and they couldn t, there would be confusion at the polls. now, that didn t happen.