been as the population has gotten more complex and are using a paper and pencil method, you're only osolution is you have to throw a lot more people at it, hire a lot more people -- >> as this hearing comes to take close, we'll go live to senate intelligence committee on election security. we join it as it is just getting under way. >> what we said and the vice chairman and i said the same thing. we would go wherever the facts led us. we're now at a point that we have wrapped up one piece of our investigation which deals with election security. it's safe to say that our team has done an unbelievably thorough job. they spoken to nearly all the effected states, they have interviewed numerous current, former high level officials from the white house, the nse and department of homeland security, the fbi and other intelligence community agency. they've secured and analyzed countless intelligence products, both raw and finished assessments. let me say this with a great deal of confidence, it is clear the russian government was looking for the vulnerabilities in our election system highlighted and s