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This. the june 16th, june, 2016, trump tower meeting was an effort to get information from russians. and so republicans are putting their heads in the sand. on top of that, its not just the message it sends to government professionals that are trying to shore up our election systems. its mitch mcconnell putting the kibosh on election security, election integrity legislation. across the board, its open season. what is important to understand is that tom perez the chairman of the democratic nation...

Very clear. 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 t...

>> that is a possibility in the house. what the house is doing is they are simply gathering information. hope hicks has agreed to testify. they will be gathering information. and then they will make that decision. the point is you have the obstruction of justice which i think youve seen a bit of again today with what he said about don mcgahn, but you also have going on this interference in our election, where he is blatantly engaging in, this and asking people to interfere in the election. and r...

Countries who would like more of us. >> a good interview and a glib answer to say, well, do you really want to regulate us considering the kind of money we make, that kind of thing. its not, z suppose, an unusual one in the private sector, but there are big national security issues involved in that question. im glad you sat down with him. >> he wants more regulation, but is it for the sake of regulating or does it do something purposeful? well see where this goes, right? >> no question. and a lo...

Its absurd on its face. no wonder he felt the need to walk it back but even in walking it back, it seemed to me he didnt quite understand what was wrong with it in the first place. >> it bears repeating that the mueller report made clear the trump campaign expected that it was going to benefit electorally from russian interference in the election and they were receptive to that help. when don junior walked into that june 2016 meeting at trump tower, he was hoping to walk out with incriminating i...

Sanctions on russia. the administration slow walked those but they didnt really make it harder to interfere the next time. also check cut to states to help with the midterms. thats not about 2020. theres been nothing. we dont even have the social media folks on board with a set of parameters for all to follow or else. theres not even a real plan that we know about to harden the ballot infrastructure. how when you know they want to do it again. but it doesnt mean that everybody is sitting on thei...

Concern to the american public. >> house democrats are planning to pass a pack aage of bills on election security. its enough to do just that, failed in the senate yesterday. whats the goal here? you pass legislation in the house but it doesnt come up for a vote in the senate. >> just this last week the committee i had approved $600 million more. thats a good start but we have 40 states whose equipment is so old it cant handle modern anti-hacking software. 13 states dont even have a paper trail ...

Lot about russia, but china does election interference as well. >> nothing new, just they have a new tool called the internet. >> yep. a powerful one. i want to get to how congress reacts to this. lets set aside 2016 and talk all about 2020. thats whats coming. heres senate majority leader mitch mcconnell defending trump and turning the tables on democrats. i want to get to what hes doing on the senate side. have a listen. >> you get picked at every day over every different aspect of it, but the...

Those in the business of figuring out what happens next all believes it will happen again. it deserves so much attention that mueller put it on page one of his report. the fbi, cia and barr and the presidents secretary of state. the head of dhs. the national security adviser. they all agree and yet stopping the interference seems to be no ones priority. democrats in congress. they have some 30 active investigations underway. all are about the president in one way or another. theres so many we ha...

>> laura: is there anything that can get done for the good of the country with this hot political climate that we are in? we are going to talk about this crisis at the border. what we are seeing with people coming across the border, several hundred just in the last few weeks from african countries now? >> i can tell you what we are going to do on the humanitarian part of the problem down to the border, senate democrats insisted on stripping that out. i think its fair to say the president has had...