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I dont know if the bill is perfect or good but fine, amend it. lets have a debate about kind of an important issue where they are interfering and its not clear that the u.s. government is doing what it should be doing to protect our election from 2020. theres where democrats should be doing a lot to highlight this, especially the fact that the republican -- its one thing not to agree with a particular piece of legislation. they want to spend the money differently, have different guidelines. its ...

Election and beyond. he warned expect they will do it again during the 2020 campaign. some lawmakers call muellers testimony a clear call for more election security, a wake-up call that every american. set a major-league mitch mcconnell called it partisan legislation, a bill that only received one republican vote in the house. >> its just a highly partisan bill from the same folks who spent two years hyping up a conspiracy theory about president trump and russia and who continue to ignore this a...

Should work on another bill. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel reporting on this. cindy hyde-smith of mississippi blocked it and there hasnt been a single stand-alone legislation on election security since we found out what the russians did. whats going on there? >> clearly they have work to do. democratic leader chuck schumer tried to bring about how spell it would require paper ballots and provide money for the election assistance commission. here was part of his pitch. >> if we i...

Presence because it sets him off. its not something we want to do but we do know he and his aides were gleeful since yesterday. >> donna, you know how hard it is to get things done. you lived it. we heard yesterday from robert mueller the integrity of our elections is at stake. senate republicans wont budge on election security. i dont know, voters dont seem particularly interested in making this something that members-congress are going to run on. so what now? >> you know, yesterday, i thought ...

I mean, weve been talking about this for three years now. most people that look at this sli seriously know that theft capability to interfere in our elections. they may have the intention. we dont know that yet. and we have done almost nothing, i want to underscore that, almost nothing to enhance the resilience of our electoral infrastructure, to enhance our ability to detect disinformation on the platforms. and i want to remind everybody, it is july 2019. and we are still talking about getting ...

Is the wall built? and then the question on election security, do they actually welcome elections, some kind of intervention? are they actually relying on that as part of their strategy? we know what donald trump thinks about this. he has said it many times and you can make an assessment about his ego needing to think he won on his own or the strategic goal going forward, but the question has to be put to mitch mcconnell, what are you doing here? are you against election security, yes or no. to ...

Mueller said from many centrist and leftist-center democrats to not only impeach the president but at least begin impeachment proceedings. >> what are you hearing in terms of moments that broke through? what do members expect to make it onto the local newscast? a lot of sense just watching it in realtime, it was really the second hearing before the house intel committee where the questions were more focused on what the russians did and trumps campaign enthusiasm for their assistance that broke t...

He hopes we will not remember what he said in march of 2017. they are going all obstruction. there is no conspiracy, no collusion. since all obstruction. >> bret: you dont think we will get it to russia specifically, what they did or didnt do in that intel here in? >> i think that was the ruse to get mueller to come back. the election security is really important, what russia did. but based on answers i heard this morning, hes not going to be very much. politically, he needs to be obstruction. t...

Raise the prospect of impeachment. >> how should the committee go after that phrase, insufficient evidence and try to explore what evidence there was and just what level it rose to. >> i think its critical that they attack in a couple different ways. they will ask was there any collusion. that might be a yes or no answer. what it really comes down to is anybody to help from a foreign power. were they seeking that assistance out. the reason this worked is because people were open for business in ...

That alone should be enough to raise the prospect of impeachment. >> how should the committee go after that phrase, insufficient evidence and try to explore what evidence there was and just what level it rose to. >> i think its critical that they attack in a couple different ways. they will ask was there any collusion. that might be a yes or no answer. what it really comes down to is anybody to help from a foreign power. were they seeking that assistance out. the reason this worked is because pe...