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Unfortunately leader mcconnell as he showed the american people again today when he blocked common sense house-passed legislation is standing in the way of progress when it comes to securing our elections and safeguarding our democracy. election security is a national security issue of paramount importance and the republican leaders -- it sends the wrong signal to foreign adversaries who seek to undermine our elections. is this politics? thats what senator mcconnell said. if you step back and an...

Being forthright. they say 3.6 middle schoolers and high schoolers vaping. that went up from 1.2 million in 2017. so well have to see what the 2019 data shows. if it continues that trajectory, this is going to be one of the most commonly performed activities in schools. >> sanjay, so many parents are appreciative of you staying on this story and continuing to bring it to light. that is their biggest worry. >> ive got kids too. im looking into this for myself in part. >> thanks, sanjay. >> thank ...

What were the specifics in these bills that republicans blocked? >> republicans in the senate are under intense pressure now after the testimony not only of mr. mueller but of fbi director chris wray, to move on election security. but because they have a lot of opposition in the white house president trump and others in his inner circle are reluctant to make any significant moves on election security through the senate because they privately have concerns about raising president trumps ire, ques...

Administration to shore up our elections? >> some is being done. but its not a lot thats being done in the eyes of some lawmakers. one of the things that senate leader mcconnell cited was congress and the u.s. government had put aside more money for election security. democrats and others say that amount of money is not enough. you are seeing the department of homeland security, working with the fbi, cia and others and putting out more information to social media companies, to election officials...

In 2016. concluded it was extensive, that russia likely targeted elections in all 50 states and warning the federal government and states to do more to protect against cyber attacks and to protect the integrity of our elections. the report comes one day after robert mueller warned congress that russian hacking is happening right now. and fbi director christopher wray issued a similar warning today. the intel committees report released as republicans in the senate move to block bills aimed at str...

Fall of 2016. but the warnings did not provide enough information or go to the right people. >> russians wanted to come in and rattle the doors and windows and found the doors unlocked in the windows wide open and in many ways we were lucky they to change the totals or move voters from one precinct to another. >> democratic leaders put out a statement late today calling on the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and his senate colleagues to move forward and stop blocking legislation on electi...

Any vote tallies. if you have the data, and you know, say, a precinct or an area is predominantly african american, you delete them off the rolls. you effectively will tip the scales of an election. >> thats absolutely correct, which is why its so disappointing that mitch mcconnell refuses to take up the bills that the house of representatives has passed to the senate to improve election security. i think mitch mcconnell gave the game away when he said that these bills would give the democrats a...

Its -- its where we are, gene. >> well, you know, so what i should feel is i should be appalled that the dignity of the president of the united states was assaulted in such a way, but this president has done so much to degrade the presidency that -- it is really very clever the way that this was put together. so its -- i think it was a well deserved tribute to this president. >> eugene robinson, thank you very much. as always, well be reading your latest piece in "the washington post" entitled t...

The next campaign. >> reporter: but republican leader mitch mcconnell today blocked several bills that would boost election security. are republicans doing enough on this issue on election interference? >> were trying to. >> reporter: what does that mean? is the president doing enough to draw attention to this issue? to the fact that russia is meddling, that it needs to be stopped? >> no. >> reporter: no? >> and youll keep asking the questions. mary bruce live on the hill again tonight. and mary...

Spoken and releasing the report on our presidential election it on our hacked presidential election, calling it a cascading intelligence failure, saying the russians targeted all of our 50 states. and it was just last night the republicans blocked the latest bills to strengthen our elections. and a check in with how were doing on tyranny with the author of the book of the same name as "the 11th hour" gets under way this thursday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headqu...