security analyst and a senior fellow at the policy institute and a former fbi agent, as well. mr. watts, welcome back to meet the press. thank you. let me start with the basics here. about a year ago you were on this show. we talked about the russian interference and you sort of talked about things that needed to be done. has anything been done to protect future elections? no. they ve worked on the critical infrastructure designation, but the number one thing we got to do is ensure the integrity of the vote. you just said designation, which means they were just trying to decide what should we try to protect? we haven t even started any actual protection. exactly. this is the feds reaching out to states and locals who don t have the resources in cyber security and probably can t detect a hack to help them protect the vote. right now we can t ensure the vote is accurate or not changed. we need paper backup to always ensure the vote is correct. we learned this week there had