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Vox. sara, great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> i know vote counting dominating cable news since mitch mcconnell is pushing for a vote before the july 4th recess. now five are not -- is that getting in the way of talks? >> i think it is. this is constantly true about the affordable care act. when you look at cable news coverage of health care, you see a lot more coverage of who is going to vote for it, will this senator or that senator get on board. what kind of tweets they want. you se...

Be in 140 characters or less. >> be careful what you say, it may come back to bite you and once its out there, you cant take it back. >> act responsible. youre the president of the united states of america. people are watching you. >> rosa flores, cnn, miami. a homeland security official warned congress that russian government-linked hackers potentially targeted as many as 21 states election systems last year. this assessment was made with dhs and fbi cybersecurity officials. none of the targe...

Break? how much of that is about concerns once they get back to their states or their district about what their constituents will do? >> thats a piece of this. theres some senators that have said we want to make sure we have enough time to study the healthcare bill. the vote counting does not get easier after the recess necessarily because that gives groups that want to preserve the aca time to activate to go to town halls, to have constituents call their lawmakers. could be more difficult to re...

Members of congress heard a chilling account of the russian interference in the election. an official at the department of homeland security confirmed publicly for the first time, election systems in 21 states were targeted by russian hackers. theres no evidence that any actual ballots were changed. but heres the thing. witnesses warn that hackers will be back. appearing before the house panel today, president obamas form he homeland security secretary jay johnson said he personally contacted th...

Going to be spending the majority of your time in washington. and while people respect across the board your desire to support your fiancee, she is in medical school, she walks to work across the street at 4:00 a.m., youre going to be getting a job that has you on a plane living in another part of the country most days of the week. with every vote counting, with every point counting, why not move, sir? >> well, steph, voters just arent asking me this question. voters are asking what ill do to im...

Its interesting. that south carolina race is -- that was like a trump plus 18 district. so that one feels like almost an impossible climb for the democrats there. but even if that race, even in the south carolina race, you talk to democrats in south carolina. they love their candidate. theyre psyched for that race. they think theres a chance that they will definitely exceed expectations, maybe even be in contention. that -- i mean in a trump plus 18 district, thats remarkable enough. but to have...

Bit last fall in the presidential election. but theres some evidence lou yao ear looking in the preliminary election, democrats were turning out in droves for the early vote. looks like they did again, but it looks like towards the end here, maybe an uptick of republican interest in this thing as the election day threw dru near. >> patricia, one of the big issues in georgia is the democrat, jon ossoff, doesnt actually live in the district. take a listen to how both candidates are handling that. ...

Expectations, maybe even be in contention. that -- i mean in a trump plus 18 district, thats remarkable enough. but to have this race in georgia where trump won by less than two and where jon ossoff has been such a good candidate and karen handel has been such a bad candidate, i wouldnt want to be dealing with the kind of pressure that jon ossoff is dealing with tonight. >> and theres the trump factor. tomorrow night were going to be talking about what did trump mean here in this election. we ma...

Hack the u.s. election after a top secret agency document was leaked by an intelligence agency contractor. the leaked nsa report published by the intercept is dated just last month. it shows analysis of a months long russian effort that penetrated u.s. voting systems. the nsas analysis doesnt say the hacking had an effect on the elections out come, but does say there is a lot they dont know about the extent of what the russians were able to plush. some of them did know, but some contradicts what...

Bobby kennedy was the campaign manager. >> hes tough. hes brash. and he can be mean. and hes leading the vote counting on the floor of the convention. >> they knew exactly what they were doing. >> the delegates start voting. >> johnson believed that hed win. kennedy was worried. he thought he had it sewn up, but he wasnt certain of it. >> mr. chairman, my only vote will make majority for senator kennedy. >> yes! >> kennedy won the nomination, but he did not unify the party. there were many senio...