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Their efforts to tackle election security. nancy pelosi says her members has a package of bills theyll be voting on in the coming weeks. >> sumter county, florida reportedly hacked by the russians ahead of the 2016 elections. ke kerry sanders spoke with the democrats and republicans in the ruby red county. here he is from the big retirement community in the country. the villages. >> they call it the disney land for adults. >> disney land for adults. >> reporter: smacked down in the middle of flo...

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...

Election interference bill. i know you voted against what the house democrats billed as hr-1, this large voting rights bill that they put together. if they carved out the parts just on election security -- there was an election security portion requiring paper ballots, establishing better cybersecurity standards, also would include i think what mark warner wants to see, immediate reporting to the fbi, could you vote for that bill? >> well, i had a lot of concerns with hr-1, not the least of whic...

Aggressive tact that the u.s. government is doing now against russia in planning potential essentially forms of malware into the russian power grid, taking a more offensive approach, rather than just doing this on defense. do you support that new policy? >> look, you have to take every step possible first of all to make sure what happened in 2016 what the russians attempted to do to meddle with our elections when barack obama was president, doesnt happen again in 2020 or any other election. im g...

First bill nancy pelosi chose to move through the house was a bill that far left. its been an example how shes run the house. not addressing real problems. >> lets go to election security. lets talk -- im asking about just the election security. this was not a small event. this seems to be not unreasonable ideas here when it comes to the cybersecurity portion of the bill, what mark warner is calling for. could you support that? >> theres a lot on cybersecurity i think we can come to an agreement...

Dick durbin at an other obscure committee meeting which put on records other republican senators pointing the finger right at majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> are we going to be marking up any of those bills on election security? >> it was not a topic of discussion today but at this point, i dont see any likelihood that those bills would get to the floor if we mark them up. >> why? >> same reason we couldnt get our bill to the floor last year. >> which is? >> i think the majority leader just ...

Everything revolves around him and theres no outside objective sources of morality or ethics. and thats just a very, very dangerous thing. in the human life its problematic enough. in a president, its corrupting to a country and can be outright dangerous. >> isnt it also clear the president meant what he said the first time because he is now thanking the majority leader mitch mcconnell who is blocking legislation on election security. dont fall for the democrats hoax. its clear he meant what he ...

It doesnt matter if its about republican or democrat. this is right now about our country and how do woo move forward to make sure that the sanctity of our democracy is strong. that is being present and holding individuals accountable and making sure he doesnt get away with nonsense. >> barbara mcquade, maria teresa kumar and the rarely exhaustible david korn on a big week. thanks to each of you. appreciate your comments tonight. we have a lot more in the show. we mentioned some of the polling d...

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 ...

May not have seen before. pressure by democratic senator dick durbin at an other obscure committee meeting which put on records other republican senators pointing the finger right at majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> are we going to be marking up any of those bills on election security? >> it was not a topic of discussion today but at this point, i dont see any likelihood that those bills would get to the floor if we mark them up. >> why? >> same reason we couldnt get our bill to the floor las...