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Antjuan Seawright, a CBS News political contributor, discusses the Republicans reliance on disinformation to whip up support and win elections.

>> first of all, mitch mcconnell says this should be a bipartisan effort. i think everybody could probably agree with that. it shouldnt be something thats contentious. why did the republicans vote against it? >> thats a mystery, because it should be bipartisan. that intelligence committee report is bipartisan. what it shows is that the russians began this misinformation and disinformation attack on our democracy as early as 2014, well before the 2016 election. they are continuing. they probed an...

2020, especially with new cyber tools that are continuing to fall in the hands of adversaries who would do us harm. >> thats, of course, fbi director chris wray. that last bit was from today shortly before todays senate intelligence committee landed. what is important is how much was redacted. as dire as it appears, we still dont know the half of it. the president, on the other hand, does, but he so far isnt raising any new alarm. joining us now one of the senators co-sponsoring some of the bl...

>> sandra: fox news alert now. subcommittee hearing this afternoon on lessons learned from investigations into russian disinformation attack. impact on our elections and what can be done to stop them. catherine herridge following all this live from washington and she has what we can expect when that hearing gets underway this afternoon. >> good morning. the house hearing is focused on the russian disinformation campaign targeting european elections and what lessons can be learned for american vo...

Crimes. that to me is problematic that its something that the president of the united states is sanctioning in various issues right now. >> all right, elie and kim, thank you so much. well, also this morning, two new reports detail just how far russia went in its social media campaign to help get donald trump elected. this report commissioned by the senate intelligence committee is the most exhaustive analysis yet of moscows disinformation attack. and it found that russia deployed every major ...

Mash tags and trending topics to get more users to engage in a disinformation attack. >> it helps real people see that stuff and engage in it, right? >> exactly. yeah, its more shut.more insidious, spreads better. >> reporter: nick found russians were buying armies of bots that were difficult to trace. >> essentially you can go to a website thats publicly available and buy 1,000 bots for maybe even just a couple of dollars. >> definitely. >> for $25 im buying 10,000 retweets. >> the goal is to s...

Trending topics to get users to endaj in a disinformation attack. >> it helps real people see that stuff and engage in it, right? >> exactly, yeah. its more subtle. it spreads better. >> reporter: nick found russians were buying armies of bots that were difficult to trace. essentially can you go to a website thats publicly available and buy 1,000 bots for maybe just a couple of dollars. >> yeah. >> reporter: for $25 im buying 10,000 retweets. >> the whole goal is to seed and refertilize the conv...