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>> you know, and then robert mueller brought up the very real issue of election security. saying as we sit here, we are under attack from the russians in all likelihood in our election. the senate intelligence committee put out a report yesterday that says all 50 states -- there are 50 states in the united states and all of them were targeted by the russians in the last election. on that very same day, mitch mcconnell and republican senators blocked legislation to protect state election systems....

Done since 2016 to insure they dont, morgan. >> and barbara, you have been on the hill. i mean, what can democrats do at this point? is there anything they can do to force this issue? >> absolutely. this is the most outrageous thing because here we have bipartisanship in the senate intelligence committee. warning us that we have to do something about our election security. and mitch mcconnell, who i worked with for many years, has turned into someone else. he always was kind of grumpy, but now h...

"the senate intelligence committee concluded thursday that election systems in all 50 states" -- lets repeat that "in all 50 states were affected -- but at the demand of the american intelligence agencies, the committees were forced to redact their findings so heavily that key lessons for the 2020 election are blacked out." just this week fbi director chris wray told congress russia is absolutely intent on interfering in future elections. meanwhile, and somewhat unbelievably, election security l...

Missing and thats what concerns me about election security in 2020. >> and often sometimes amplifying those divisive messages. director clapper, always good to have you on the program. poppy, back to you. >> thank you, jim. so listen to this, parents, you have no doubt heard that vaping, those e-cigarettes is an epidemic among teens. so why was a class of ninth graders told that vaping was totally safe during an in-school seminar on e diction? coming up lawmakers are saying how juul is creatin...

To meet the needs of our districts and our country. fairness is our economy and diversity in our country. she also tweeted out a picture that you see there of the two of them as well. ocascio-cortez, as you know, fredricka, is a prolific tweeter, but we havent seen her tweet anything at all since this meeting. in fact, weve tried to run her down as we were here trying to get any sort of insight in how the meeting went. she sort of dodged our cameras. so its very clear that they want one message ...

Election and he it was so diffused. all members of congress and 33 senators were up for reelection. so we shouldnt beat our chest too much about relative success we had in 2016. 2020 is going to be a challenge for us. i am sure that all kinds of measures have been taken. i still worry, though, about the inconsistencies between and among the 50 states, many of whom are very jealous about their prerogatives for managing and protecting the voter apparatus. >> you were around in 2016 when the obama ...

Election security. what schumer is looking for is a follow-on bill that was passed by the house that would add another $775 million and say to campaigns, if you get any feelers from any foreign country, you have to report that. it would establish a kind of paper trail of ballots so that if there were some cyber attack, that there would be paper evidence of who people actually voted for. those are the bills, the measures, that mcconnell has blocked. two reasons really. one, he said theyre partisa...

Legislation, omar had a pro-bds piece of legislation. so they are clearly not on the same page. but the ones that get all of the publicity and the ones that are driving the message and quite frankly the political platform of the democrat party is the squad. they want to move forward with their radical agenda. nancy pelosi doesnt seem like she is in control. there is no doubt that these four members are taking over washington, d.c. theyre on the cover of magazines and on the front pages of papers...

Improved, but the threat remains urgent. that comes as they expect more election-related cyberattacks in 2020. director christopher wray says the goal is to sow division and undermine confident. and thats a day after robert mueller, a one-time fbi chief, warned that russia is still interfering in the u.s. electoral process, calling that one of the most serious challenges to american democracy. but twice, twice in the last 24 hours senate republicans have blocked legislation aimed at boosting ele...

>> reporter: and tonight another battle brews after a california judge halted president trumps third country asylum ban, just hours after another judge said it could go forward. stephanie grisham slammed the judges radiology a a tyranny of a dysfunctional system. hundreds of red flags have been within the trump administration, some months before the controversial cyror-tolerance policy was announced. so the question too long is whether president trump will change his tune on russian election int...