aboard theng us c-span bus is secretary of state denise merrill. we have learned since the 2016 election, connecticut was one of the states that had its voting systems targeted by russian hackers. what were the russians trying to do and how far did they get in connecticut? guest: yes, good morning. they did not get anywhere, frankly. we turned them back at the perimeter of our system, as we do most of these kinds of attempted incursions into our systems. but i have to tell you it is a very common occurrence. the difference here is it was identified as a russian agency ip address. that got everyone's attention. they did not get into our system at all. by the way, the system is the voter registry. it has nothing to do with the tabulation of ballots or any of that. i would say we don't know really what they were attempting to do. i was president of the national association in 2016 so i was pretty involved in all the different things that went on in all the different states. we still don't really know because it was turned back in all but one state to