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We also have to do something about russia interference, because you heard from intelligence officials just earlier this week saying, look, russia is continuing to meddle in the mid-terms and there are lots of questions about whether the u.s. is prepared for it and by this president not acknowledging that something really needs to be done, not pushing that forward especially since the sophistication of the effort was made plain by the indictments this week, to not do something about it really -- ...

Focusing not just for two years but multiple years, on discrediting the elections and favoring one candidate or the other. the indictment, alex, i read it yesterday, it is absolutely incredible to understand the elaborate scheme that the russians put in place to alter the election results and the fact that the president of the united states regardless of political party and regardless of the fact that putin was clearly favoring him over secretary clinton as our president has no regard for fryifr...

To say, spy on the russian government for them, theyll say, well, your president doesnt seem to have my back on this. think of this the way the president thinks of the pentagon. he sort of leaves to mattis, leaves them be. but -- and he does the same with the cia and the other intelligence agencies. but that also means he hasnt declared that this is a crisis like isis and gathered together all the elements of u.s. national power to go after it. >> nada, virginia senator mark warner, the senate i...

One, on the positive side, the people in the trenches get to do their jobs without too much interference from the president. but on the negative side, when you have a cia officer out in the field trying to get someone to, say, spy on the russian government for them, theyll say, well, your president doesnt seem to have my back on this. think of this the way the president thinks of the pentagon. he sort of leaves to mattis, leaves them be. but -- and he does the same with the cia and the other int...

This is cnn tonight. im don lemon. 11:00 p.m. on the east coast. president trumps hand picked fbi director throwing cold water on the time line put out by the white house in the rob porter director chr says the fbi briefed the white house on the investigation starting months earlier than the white house admitted. now the administration is changing the story and trying to shift blame to the personnel security office. which one official tells cnn doesnt actually have any power to make decisions. a...

Institutions one, chaos zero. >> for now. >> they all came in and told the truth and talked about in some cases what their agencies are doing to combat the russian threat. i thought the best point about this issue was made by senator angus king when asking about this, when he said, look, the reason we cant respond effectively because you dont hear this from the president of the united states. you cant have a unified response to this threat if the president of the united states isnt engaged, isnt...

Democrats flip another seat that donald trump won in 2016. but there are signs that the left needs to get more focused if they want that trend to continue in the mid-terms. well explain that. plus, democratic senator chris coons and republican senator james langford join us on set in washington. youre watching "morning joe." well be right back. >> above everything else he supports the victims of any type of violence and certainly would condemn any violence against anyone. >> get a little notice ...

We should be focused on that and less on the politics. i wonder if we can do that. >> the point of this hearing is the worldwide threat briefing and gives the american people a good sense of what the intelligence community is looking at in the future. cybersecurity is a huge part of that. interesting in the 2018 mid-terms when they said we expect russia to continue their efforts. one of the questions they were pressed on that we didnt get good enough answers to whether there is a whole of govern...

What wed hear is how boring the business of government actually is. these meetings can be pretty dry. thats what we would have seen. >> it is interesting to see them have those discussions. starting to get used to. >> well, turning back to politics it looks like nancy pelosi has set her plans for the mid-terms. the house minority leader is urging democratic colleagues to oppose the trump administrations new budget and infrastructure plans and keep trying to fight tax reforms. she writes quote, w...

>> our mistake i think, you cannot just run against donald trump. it is the job of we democrats to put together a strong, cohesive economic group of proposals aimed at the middle class and those struggling to get there. thats our job as democrats. we have always been the party of economic advancement. and i think we may have lost some sight of that. >> you and i have both lived through mid-terms. some good well, less well when youre in power. what do you think? are you with the schumer you cant ...