yet several events since then eindicate that the life cycle cost will be substantially higher than the original estimate of $12.5 billion. the bureau's preparations for 2020 have been further complicated by ongoing vacancies in the positions of census director and deputy director. although acting leadership has since been named, turnover in the top ranks makes it difficult to ensure accountability and continuity as well as to mitigate risks and control costs over the long-term. this concludes my prepared remarks. i will now turn it over to my colleague. >>> thank you for inviting us to testify on the bureau's plans to deliver and secure key technologies for the 2020 census. these technologies can improve our nation's response rates and secure citizens' data. this technology has not been effective lly planne ened or ma and much work remains to deliver it. schedule, security and cost growth,ly expand on each of these. the bureau needs to deliver 43 systems for 2020. some are new systems in infrastructure while others are changes to existing systems. clearly the internet response capabili

again, to be clear, it's often eindicated with the more salacious side of what's alleged to be in the dossier, but it goes beyond that. it was really a documenting of these meetings that took place between trump associates and russians during and prior to the campaign. >> adam, if the dnc and the clinton campaign knew about this, they could have come forward a long time ago? >> right. >> because they denied this for a long time, didn't they? >> i'm not sure. i might be wrong about this, but i'm not aware of them publicly denying they were a source of funding. again, the way this was structured, it's the lawyer representing them that actually pro-cured, assigned the contract, if you will. they were the ones who were engaging with the fusion gps team. and then again, chris steel was being hired as a subcontractor by fusion gps. so the degree to which members of the clinton campaign knew during the campaign that this was going on, that remains unclear to me. obviously later on when we get to november and december, it's pretty clear that they were aware of the work of chris steel because