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They say, we suddenly now believe theres more opportunity for fraud in mail-in ballots? >> well, i would strongly urge them to get the facts and get the research. we have a lot of the myth buster type documents on our website. but i think also ignore the disinformation. the lies and conspiracies that are spreading right now about the voting process, whether it be vote by mail or voting technology providers or what have you is massive, and disinformation continues to be the biggest election secur...

Threatening spreading right now about the voting process whether it be voting by mail, technology providers, or what have, you is massive. this information continues to be the biggest election security issue we face. we have to continue to fight it every day with the facts and figures and evidence based elections and all of the research that goes into this. id encourage them to ignore the noise and use the method of voting that works for them. and get more information from local officials or sta...

Right. at some point it becomes, this is an election security issue. heres a man who not only has committed grave misconduct, that puts our election at risk, but he has made extremely clear he will continue to can do that. so at some point you do have to press ahead and say this is an urgent matter. its just that, if its all just a big show and a pre-determined result, theres no point in pushing it out. yes, she can push. at some point it has to come to an end. >> essentially saying she has a li...

Well when they realize, and think about the consequences, if it turned out there were millions of votes missing from an election that were not in the system or seeing that theyve returned. our democracy, remember what happened in 2000? our democracy would be thrown into chaos, and yet the house bill is just calling for giving the states more money so they can basically secure their systems and requiring paper receipts so theres a way of tracking what happened and mcconnell is not allowing a vote...

Think there is an interest by some within the administration starting at the very top to allow the russians to continue to interview, because it worked out well for them in 2016. >> why do you think that? why do you think theres an interest in the trump administration allowing the russians to intervene? what evidence do you have for that charge? >> im basing it just on the fact that they have not indicated any interest in really delphing down into this election security issue. there are many hac...

Happens, we have found this activity, we have stopped it. heres what we know and heres what were doing to stop it in the future. >> we know that one thing that the russians were doing was essentially trying to foment dissent on controversial topics. this comes to a head with alex jones after some pressure, critics call it censored but others say this guy is violating terms of service left, right and center and saying things that are, frankly, appalling. did facebook react too slowly to the alex ...

Russia investigation. heres what were watching the in of the last hour or so a classified briefing led by top trump officials on election security happened. were starting to hear from lawmakers on that and were waiting to hear from speaker ryan to see if he can tell us anymore about these new developments. in an hour well hear from members of the republican freedom caucus who wanted a essential spesht counsel to look into what they claim were surveillance abuses at the doj. this latest demand co...