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Areas, the local police departments and judges and others are not getting the job done and mexico is a long-term ally and good with them. >> i want to ask you tonight, the trump administration would not enact new sanctions against russia. and i am >> i continue to believe russia is very actively engaged in not only undermining our democracy but doing that around the world. its one of the reason myself and others have done a bipartisan bill on election security. we need to assume what they did in...

Off into some deep pit of rabbit hole of explaining no matter what was written for him. what he could do, now that you brought it up, they say that hes going to work for election security in 2018. he could maybe call for a renewal of the election commission he created that had to be disbanded because of the super partisan way that they went about their work. so he could find a pack door way of bring iing up what they are talking about. >> it could be an opportunity for the president to look less...

Think so. both the republicans and the democrats are really wanting to put out at least this one portion about election security. i think it will be. the house looking at a complete wrap-up of their investigation soon early into 2018. that is looking like it could be a democratic report and a republican report. lets see, probably two different conclusions on both sides of the chamber but well see. that, of course, is the story of all of our lives. every day on capitol hill. we have barely scratc...

General sessions was forced to recuse himself from the russia investigation but we have not held a single hearing on the question of conflicts of interest. on march 8th we wrote again to the chairman encouraging him to call hearings on russias alleged interference in the u.s. election. again no such hearings were ever held. in fact, this committee which during the obama administration held half a dozen hearings around operation fast and furious, received testimony from f.b.i. director comey thre...

The administrations attempt to address its ongoing flisconflicf interest are wholly adequate. we have not held a single hearing on the issue of conflicts of interest. on march 8th, we wrote again to the chairman, encouraging him to call hearings on, quote, russias alleged interference in the u.s. election. again, no such hearings were ever held. in fact, this committee, which during the obama administration held half a dozen hearings around operation fast and furious, received testimony from fbi...

Interim report." now, were told this is being considered at all because of whats been picked up about russian influence in our elections. senator warner said the interim report would address election security. there is that, that we sometimes forget about. what would it help, what would it hurt to issue an interim report, do you think? >> i think its important for the american public to know whats going on. so an interim report would help on that. the risk is that it may reveal something that wi...

So mueller has to go down that rabbit hole and its a rabbit hole that people dont know whats at the end of it. the only people who know that are donald trump, michael cohen, and maybe a few people around him. so the people who are close to trump are just worried about where that ends. theyve seen felix sater whos at the very least, you know, a mob-tied former felon, and who knows who else is at the other end of that russia deal. >> jill wine-banks, i couldnt help but notice a report in politico ...

Elections. senator warner said the interim report would address election security. there is that, that we sometimes forget about. what would it help, what would it hurt to issue an interim report, do you think? >> i think its important for the american public to know whats going on. so an interim report would help on that. the risk is that it may reveal something that will allow future witnesses to craft an answer that fits what the already known testimony is and thats one of the things you want...

Targeted. wisconsin, for instance, has not been notified that it was targd weve heard from the state of illinois. they were not told in their case that it was russia or any foreign actor. >> your copanelists said that they have ed of 21 states that were affected. were those states that were potentially swing states in this election? >> to be honest, katie, we dont know. the department of homeland security has not shared that list publicly. >> so what do you do in order to stop this from happenin...

As far as north korea is concerned success may take longer than i like. maybe longer than you would li like. >> china is the focal point of the diplomatic effort. beijing accounts for about 90% of the trade-in u.s. officials have openly criticize the chinese this week for not using the overwhelming influence to determine the nuclear ambition. well have to see if that changes after todays meeting. >> thank you. >> julie: at home state officials are meeting in indianapolis to tackle election secur...