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>> trace: senators getting the chance to grill two homeland security chiefs about election security. members of the senate intel committee recommended steps to talk about what they called outdated and vulnerable voting systems. kirsten nielson and jay johnson testifying before the committee today. nielsen said russia is not the only threat to our democracy. >> fortunately once the vulnerabilities have been made clear, its not just russia that we have to worry about. its any adversary that could ...

Full view from people who may have -- of whose data they had acquired. all of this now, what does that tell you also about the russian connection since cambridge analytica also was in business with lukoil and other of the oligarchs? >> andrea, this aspect of the russian interference having to do with collection of data, microtargeting, fake news, is the aspect of it that i think we havy et to fule yet to fully un. it may be months, if not years, before we fully understand the full extent of what...

>> thank you. >> dana: house republican leaders making a hard push for an increase in military funding. it would be part of a massive spending bill that congress he try to finalize by midnight on friday. republicans say the extra money is needed to avoid more military training accidents and more defense spending wont raise the national debt. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. how worried is speaker paul ryan about this spending bill hurting him and republicans in the mid-terms? >> its a good q...

Get ahead of that. >> neil: thanks, charles. there is a poll out, i dont know if you seen this that shows that the democrats have a double digit lead advantage in the mid-terms. a lot of concern is that this could sort of snow ball for republicans. mark meadows is worried. after this. to most people, i look like... ...most people. but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive ne...

Patty solis doyle told cnn she was wrong and clearly, its not helpful to democrats going into the mid-terms and certainly not going into 2020. whats your read on what hillary clinton was doing with this speech? >> totally thing i take from this and pretty much every time she says something like this is she truly is untethered from any political aspirations and feels free to say what she really thinks. we saw that come out in that one moment of the campaign she described half of donald trumps sup...

A written record about his interactions with the president. what this could mean for the special counsel probe coming up. the reaction by the presidents attorney that this mccabe firing means time for the probe to end, i think thats most significant because i think it signals this president is no longer cooperating with mueller. its time for war. in fact, a new nbc poll just out this hour. some new numbers on the president and democrats and what lies ahead for the mid-terms. plus, the fight over...

Places like singapore, poland and macau beat us by huge margins. we need sit-ins like sit in class and learn. lets be clear. democrats are using these kids to whip up enthusiasm for the mid-terms, 2020 and beyond and for voter registration. its theater with real world consequences. because im telling you, when these placards are trashed and the tv producers stop calling, johnny still wont read as well as the other countries and maybe not write as well or distinguish between a pollynomial and a p...

Nourish your eyes to help them be their healthy best. ocuvite eye vitamins. be good to your eyes. the race is too close to call until all the votes are counted. we expect to get results from washington countys absentee blalts sometime tonight. lets bring in cnn political commentators van jones and steve cortez. it has not been officially called. cnn has not declared it. but conor lamb, van, saying hey, listen, i won. where does the momentum stand at this point in the mid-terms? >> well, look, ...

>> but couldnt donald trump argue that he won by supporting key trump policies, so its not necessarily a criticism of donald trump? >> i think it is true that it will be difficult for many democrats to replicate the strategy that this particular candidate has pursued. remember, he also distanced himself from the democratic leader nancy pelosi and that helped him. thats helped him in this election. thats more difficult as we approach the mid-terms for others to replicate. he managed to raise $3 m...

>> yes. theres a sense that it creates a momentum. interestingly, this particular district is -- the map is being redrawn in pennsylvania. so these two candidates will actually be standing in separate districts when we come to november. nonetheless, its very significant. i think the republicans are now trying to distance themselves from this and it wasnt that the republican candidate was a good candidate, it wasnt a good campaign, they had to put a lot of money into saccones campaign. nonetheles...