I want to tone things down a little bit here and First Express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. I come from a background as a prosecutor and our local Law Enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, ive had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. And i think the Inspector General hes job is incredibly important. He keeps everyone honest. But i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in Law Enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. Which i think is basically some recommendations Foric Change Wh the Inspector General found in this report. So before iis start my question
i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. It is nowe undisputed by our Intelligence Agencies that rus
which i appreciate help states securing our elections but also get in-place requirements to push those states that don t have backup paper ballots, 11 of them, to get the backup paper ballots and make sure we have audits and make sure we have better communication between federal and state authorities. to do something about the propaganda by actually moving forward on the bill that senator mccain and i had and that senator graham and i now have, the honest ads act which requires those social media companies and i have absolutely no idea why we don t do that, to play by the same rules of the road for paid political ads, which would greatly help us but not completely but greatly help us with this propaganda problem. so here we go. you wrote this report, inspector horowitz, after interviewing more than 100 witnesses and reviewing over 1 million documents. is that right? that s correct. under department guidelines, and investigation have been authorized purpose if it s open
t work started to pass not only the money thato i appreciate t help states secure our elections, but also get in place requirements to push those states that don t have backup paper ballots to get them and to make sure that we have audits and intercommunication between federal and state authorities. to do something about the propaganda by actually moving forward on the billing that snar mccain and i had and that senator graham and i now have, the honest ads act. which it requires those social media companies and i have no idea why we do that, to play by the same rules of the road for paid political ads which greatly help us but not completely but greatly help us with this propaganda problem. so you wrote this report, inspector, after interviewing more than 100 witnesses and reviewing over 1 million documents. is that right? that s correct. and under department
crackling moment between you and senator klobuchar on the question of experience. listen to what it was. this is a good example where he has said the right words, but i actually have the experience and am leading 11 of the bills that are in that house-passed bill you just referred to. and i think this kind of experience matters. i have been devoted to this from the time that i ve got to the senate, and i think having that experience, knowing how you can get things done, leading the bills to take the social media companies to task, a bipartisan bill to say, yeah, you have to say where these ads come from and how they re paid for, and stop the unbelievable practice where we still have 11 states that don t have backup paper ballots. that is my bipartisan bill, and i am so close to getting it done. and the way i get it done is if i m president. but just like i have won statewide, and mayor, i have all appreciation for your good work
process and right now we ve got a situation where because of gerrymandering, because of voter suppression, a lot of people aren t able to vote and let s add one more thing to this that s really relevant. bret: people look at this and say this is not fair because camp won fair and square. 54,723 votes. senator klobuchar: i don t think the voter registration rules are fair in georgia, but one more thing, you know what else is in fair? that we are not doing anything for backup paper ballots. the bill that i have with james lankford, there are still 11 states that don t have backup paper ballots. we have a foreign power that tried to invade our elections that i don t call it meddling, that s what i do want to call my daughter on a saturday night and asked her what she s doing. this was an invasion. they didn t do it with tanks, so i hope when we are back now we are back this week, that mitch mcconnell and donald trump decide we are going to allow americans to vote for america and not