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Democrats. you know, as much as mcconnell or president trump can complain about the details of the legislation they might object to coming out of the house of representatives, whats so offensive to me and a handful of other republicans and were not even trying to come up with alternatives in the senate. the republican-controlled senate could call up a debate on election security, could call up a debate on health care, could call up a debate on immigration. we could come to our own conclusion in ...

But, you know, you go there and people find little things they can get bipartisan coordination on, the election security, where you can put together a bipartisan majority. is mcconnells theory he just doesnt want anybody to take a hard vote on anything? i dont even get, what is his theory of the case here? >> yeah, its hard to figure out. that certainly is one theory, which is that, you know, this cycle he has more incumbent republican senators that are up for election than democrats, and so why...

Small town in algona, iowa, or the president of the united states, as far as im concerned, no one is above the law. [ applause ] >> let me ask you, 2016, of course, were well aware, you worked on as part of the intelligence committee about russian interference in the election. should folks here be confident that the results of the 2020 election will be sound and not interfered with? even down to the vote counts, free from russian interference. >> folks -- folks here, especially in a city where l...

Did nothing. >> so trumps own chief of staff reportedly told dhs staff not to mention election security in front of the president, senate republicans have been blocking a vote on a package that includes election security forms passed by the house back in march. all right. in a new interview attorney general william barrere is break with president trump on his allegations of treason which the president is making against members of the fbi and intelligence community. >> they have unsuccessfully ...

Chairman of the judiciary committee, chairman cummings, my chairman on oversight, if our chairmen cant get the people they need to testify to answer questions, if we cant get to the bottom of how russia interfered with our elections and make sure that the administration is paying attention to our election security, ensuring that this can never happen again, if they continue to deny that it happened at all, then i would say you know what, if there is no other option for us to get access to that i...

Just before the election in september that russia may try and interfere with the election. he did nothing. >> beside the fact that president trump repeatedly, despite having been briefed on the intelligence cast doubt on an october 2016 administration statement that publicly blamed russia for election interference and trumps own chief of staff reportedly told dhs officials not to mention work on election security in front of the president, senate republicans have been blocking a vote on a packag...

Mechanism for removing a president from office that breaks the law. >> and i understand impeachment and introducing legislation are two different things but theyre introdeu int introducing legislation that mitch mcconnell is refusing to vote on because he wants to name it socialist. >> their argument again -- im not arguing for or against impeachment, im saying if you accept muellers report at face value, if youre any democrat trying to get him on capitol hill to testify -- why? if you want him ...

Areas, were not doing our job. and clearly this white house will not act because as we saw, the former secretary of homeland security, when she wanted to have a cabinet meeting around election security in 2020 was told not to do it because it might offend donald trump. so this is now -- its been teed up for congress to act. if we dont heed robert muellers warnings, shame on us. >> what kind of cooperation are you getting, you and your republican chair on intelligence in the senate on the counter...

This issue. we saw earlier where the secretary of homeland security want today have a meeting on election security at the cabinet level in the white house. that was turned down because it might offend the sensibilities of donald trump. if we are going to take anything out of the mueller report it is that foreign powers intervened and if we dont want better protections in place, they will be back. >> robert mueller today was pretty insistent that he does not want to come back here on capitol hill...

That chuck schumer issued a statement saying there is an obl gag obligation to move forward. he is in a minority and mitch mcconnell has the rules. pete buttigieg was just with harry smith. lets listen to one of the candidates. this will be an overriding issue during the 2020 campaign. >> the message really is over to you congress. this is as close to an impeachment referral as you could get under the circumstances. >> thats pete buttigieg. chuck schumers statement saying mueller made it clear t...