lisa mascaro, i will let you jump in on that. say i think the sort of caller mentioned this divide in the country where we have the situation where the intelligence committees -- community found a year ago there was this russian interference in the election. now we have -- the house and senate have been investigating -- there is this divide in the country over how important this is an as the last caller showed, some people don't want to hear about it. you are hearing from members of congress there's a grave concern meddling they saw in the 2016 presidential election is just the beginning or a continuation know had been going on earlier and they worry a will be continuing to go on in the next election. as we approach the midterm election in 2018, there's a lot of concern on capitol hill about electionp the nation's system and making sure this most important part of our democracy, that everyone vote -- everyone's vote is counted and everyone's vote matters is upheld. there's no tampering, which, at this point, investigators have no

lisa mascaro, i will let you jump in on that. think the sort of caller mentioned this divide in the country where we have the situation where the intelligence committees -- community found a year ago there was this russian interference in the election. now we have -- the house and senate have been investigating -- there is this divide in the country over how important this is an as the last caller showed, some people don't want to hear about it. you are hearing from members of congress there's a grave concern meddling they saw in the 2016 presidential election is just the beginning or a continuation know had been going on earlier and they worry a will be continuing to go on in the next election. as we approach the midterm election in 2018, there's a lot of concern on capitol hill about electionp the nation's system and making sure this most important part of our democracy, that everyone vote -- everyone's vote is counted and everyone's vote matters is upheld. there's no tampering, which, at this point, investigators have not seen

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lmet newspaper and lisa mascaro is with the associated press. coming off a week of major shakeups at the white house, some tweets by the president