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>> well, my view until they stop they havent been deterred enough. >> warning couldnt be more clear, folks. but the republican response from too many folks to block security bills. theyre following the lead of mitch mcconnell who rejected another bill that would have required campaigns to offer foreign election assistance. >> cleary something so partisan it only received one single solitary republican vote in the house is not going to travel through the senate by unanimous consent. >> talk about...

Systems. in recent month, democrats have offered a slate of bills intended to shore up this countrys defenses, but senate republicans have repeatedly stood in the way. in fact, yesterday senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked two election security bills, including one requiring the use of paper ballots by states and counties as backup to whatever system they use. mcconnell stonewalling in the wake of the warning prompted a contentious exchange with minority leader chuck schumer yesterday...

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Lessons in 2016, i think there is a greater recognition of the threat posed by russia and others. there isnt enough money, isnt enough technical expertise. there isnt enough attention on a lot of these voting systems. now the lawmakers who produce this report, which is bipartisan, by the way, vote totals were changed in 2016. but they said basically every state in the u.s. had their voting system scanned by russian agents or looked at by russian agents in some way. they have raised concern witho...

To this again. >> it wasnt a single attempt. theyre doing it as we sit here and expect to do it during the next campaign. >> they are doing as we sit here. mitch mcconnell is doing nothing about it blocking two election security bills calling them partisan legislation. this morning my colleague joe scoreboro p scarborough put it like this. >> he is aiding and abetting vladimir putins ongoing attempts to subvert american democracy according to the republican, fbi, cia, dni intel committee, all re...

Huh... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> welcome back. mitch mcconnell is under fire for punting on election security bills as his own committee issues an alarming new report. the bipartisan senate intelligence committee led by a republican finds russia successfully targeted all 50 states. that russias going to do it again in 2020. and that "little has been done to prevent it from happening." the report notes the committee has seen no evidence that votes ...

But i can tell you we can go down two tracks at the same time. im on the energy & commerce committee. part of what weve done that hasnt been reported is just last week, we passed out of committee 25 bills that included health care bills, that included stopping robocalls, that included protecting our consumers and climate change. 25 bipartisan bills. so the american people do need to note what were doing for them but we have a job. mueller did his job. weve got do ours. >> lisa blunt rochester an...

Election systems in all 50 states. it was a larger effort than previously known to the public and it happened under the noses of state and local election officials. but the bipartisan report, lets emphasize that, its bipartisan, has not yet found a bipartisan solution. the republican-led senate is blocking to election security bills. joining me is james clapper. hes the former director of national intelligence. first question, why would a foreign adversary like russia attempt to gain access to e...

Breath of russian interference in our 2016 election. watch this. >> what i think was most important about special counsel mueller repeating the details of his report yesterday was his emphasis on how russia strongly attempted to interfere in response to a question from congressman hurd of texas said they are continuing to do it even from today. chris wray the fbi director, president trumps personally chosen fbi director repeated that same message that we need to be working on securing our 2020 e...

The democrats instead of coddling him should have been prosecutoring this, coming in, instead of with this ridiculous lets re-enact something that was already in the report and were going to reread it to everybody, what was the point of that? >> yesterday what we saw, then mitch mcconnell stanls in the way of two election security bills coming out of senate. >> he said they were partisan -- >> whatever, then offer a republican bill, for election security. why isnt rick scott -- for democrats to ...