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2020 galvanized democracy reforms, but more are needed | Opinion Updated Dec 27, 2020; By Morton Kondracke If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress — and you, too — should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are...

If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress -- and you, too -- should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are bad-news/good-news books about America’s troubled and deeply divided society, with ideas on how to repair i...

Much about how we prevent this in the future. what do we do about 2020? mitch mcconnell is blocking any election security act that would help prevent russian or foreign interference in the election of 2020 and beyond. there are those things to answer and for the judiciary, the issue of impeachment. >> there was a meeting of all house democrats after both of the hearings, some members left it saying it sounded as though naps mo nancy pelosi moved closer to the impeachment process. >> i let the sp...

Thats affecting his decision making as president of this country. >> in your experience on the intelligence committee, is that what you would expect given the evidence that you read in the mueller report? >> yeah, i think that it is very much an open question. unfortunately we didnt get a resolution to that today, but its something americans deserve to know. >> where are do you hope the intelligence committee is able to go after this. >> there are still many issues on counter intelligence and fi...

Center for justice says still, more needs to be done. >> the fact of the matter is running elections cost money. if were going to do it right, i believe we have to spend a few hundred million dollars a year to protect our elections. that is less than the pentagon recently spent anywhere in military, i think we can do it to ensure the elections. >> a confident that the system is safe? >> im feeling more confident than in the past. but this will be forever a vigilant activity of ours. question abo...

We can afford to do that for the elections. >> are you confident the system is safe? >> more confident than in the past but this is going to be forever, a joint activity. >> no matter how sophisticated the defenses are, there are hackers that can find a way around it. >> are you confident we are better off today than we were two years ago? >> i believe we are. >> we were not for the confidence of our foundation of our framers. we take it seriously and we will work hard to make sure we have good ...

In the way of a number of similar measures aimed at strengthening election systems by refusing to even allow a vote on them. there was senator ron wydens payback, then congressman john sarbanes election security act, senator marco rubios deter act and senator langfords deter election act. each of these bills are stuck in limbo and senate leader mitch mcconnell wont say way. the reason isnt that our country doesnt need them. since the 2016 presidential election, intelligence officials have warned...

But election experts would say its a drop in the bucket compared to whats needed and i think election experts would agree that probably some sort of federal response could help on that. do i think its likely? i think its probably a long shot. we do have an appropriations bill coming down the pike that is probably the most likely place for something to land. mcconnells made it pretty clear, its not going to happen separate from that process. eric: theres at least three bills. theres the secure el...