2:05:51 What does that mean like I can finally do the D-Dollars? What additional powers is he need on none. It's no Blumenthal's a douchebag Yes, well we have a report on the Russian hacking they brought two experts into the PBS news hour And this went on forever, by the way. So this is a very short beginning but it's worth commenting on Welcome to both of you to the NewsHour David Becker to you first In sum what did the Russians do to election systems in this country in 2016? Nothing What we know from testimony from the intelligence community and elsewhere Is that they attempted to probe or scan several state systems
2:06:33 probably most notably voter registration database systems. Geez, there's a lot of attempted probably probe or scan or... Almost all of those scans and probes were unsuccessful. There was one instance in Illinois where they successfully accessed voter data about 70 thousand records or so in June and July 2016 but no records were altered or deleted And I don't know if it is in this report but what I hear about this story is you know they were planning to delete people I mean, is that really their plan? We're going to delete people from the database. Yeah yeah yes by the way if you one time i went in to vote and my name wasn't there for some reason and they just said my name's not here supposed to be here and i showed him a driver's license they gave me a temporary ballot i voted of course and that works in every in every state that way it yeah
2:07:30 I think maybe there's five or six states where you have to prove citizenship of the United States, but yeah. Well, I had a driver's license so it was good enough... That doesn't prove citizenship! But you're in California, you just need to have... We don't need proof. You just need a piece of paper with your name on it! Just a piece of paper with your name on it. Yeah I scribble my own name on there and I'm good to go. Good to go yes. We also know from the intelligence community and from multiple investigations all around- Maybe they can clean up the database while they're in there? Fix the records, we've got some duplicates guys if you could do that. Holy crap these guys don't have their rows of- Select star dem from- Let's fix this for them Perfect. Hey, why isn't that playing? What happened? Oh
2:08:11 of 2016 but no records were altered or deleted. We also know from the intelligence community and from multiple investigations all around the country that there were no successful efforts to... I'm sorry interrupt again, but i'm surprised they haven't said they could bleach bit it! I mean something like that a little more creativity people To change votes or change vote totals or tallies throughout the United States Denise Merrill what about what happened in your state of Connecticut? we know there was an effort made by the Russians there Yes, we were one of 21 states apparently that were scanned at least by Russian IP addresses. Again our firewalls and our systems held they were trying to get into our voter registration database which I think is similar to what happened in the other states
2:08:58 I think the good news is they didn't get in. And, uh, and I think that's pretty much true in all the other states with that one exception that David mentioned. And Denise Merrill staying with you what evidence or belief do you have right now that they are continuing to try to do that? Uh, In this 2018 midterm election year Well, I do think the threat of Russian interference in our elections is real. Uh...I've become convinced of that uh... not only by what has happened but what could happen i think we're all on alert now that there could be other attempts. I honestly think that the biggest goal they have at this point to sow distrust in the American public and their elections That may be the most dangerous thing of all
2:09:44 You are doing, you're carrying Putin's water then baby. So distrust now I thought about this because i've heard this meme before UF2 This is what they did because they can't really find the Russians actually doing anything as if maybe they can maybe they can and maybe it's not even the Russians just Russian IPS I mean I could spoof one of those Can I just...I told a story before I'll be brief about it for the newbies here in The Best Podcast In The Universe If I go to look at my email server, which i run my own if I look at it right now. I will see 10 scans a second from China from Russia from all over the place and they just scan them They're just scanning ports their trying passwords you pew pew pew pew pew this happens all the time is nothing special Nothing
2:10:33 It's the so distrust this is that is the show. So as in showing no distress of love and so W distrust. I bet you if I went out to the street even anywhere California where they be more beautiful. Believe in that this kind of thing might be going on and ask about if people are starting to distrust the system because the Russians Are behind all these hacks or they're trying to hack. That's bullcrap Nobody is even thinking that but there keep promoting the idea that it's though Russians are trying to sow Distrust yeah, well the only people doing that are the nor their people sowing distrust Yeah, that's them the ones who were bitching at Monan I don't think people care