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Out from under republicans and democrats in working a month on this you have to know things cant be trusted, the distress digs in, this entire thing is a gateway for dems together $3.5 trillion single party boondoggle through called reconciliation which includes everything from amnesty for illegals to fighting climate change to voting infrastructure. joining us is steve scalise and florida congressman michael walsh. lets start with you. this is about the senate debate. from what youve seen from ...

Dont we take out the lights in russia and theres been a short of war conflict between the u.s. and russia over the years. my colleague david sanger and i broke the story that cyber command was hacking in to say we are here. if you turn off the lights or do something seriously disruptive to the united states, well turn around and turn your lights off, too. some of the other options that have been discussed is a leak of putins financials or a leak of some kind to expose the kind of corruption that...

A little bit with some of the counties that may have been targeted to target some voting infrastructure. im concerned that its taken the department of homeland security a year and a half to respond to the state in terms of trying to get help on this. >> well, i share that concern, and this is not something that happens terribly infrequently, unfortunately. we see this kind of lack of coordination all too regularly. in the mueller report, there is a reference, for example, that we the mueller tea...

This, and i think its very important to underscore that these investigations were doing, not just in the mueller report or russia, its not about trump. its not about even the congress. its about the public from not just this president but any president that acts in an autocratic or you be ethical way. its about protecting our voting infrastructure from any adversary, not just russia. theres a key stake in this for all the country. >> in terms of the type of attack that were talking about here in...

Security department for a year and a half to look with some technical acuity at the computers that may have been compromised by russian malware or russian intrusion efforts ahead of the 2016 elections. those hard drives and those computers have reportedly been imaged so that there is the possibility of looking at them and seeing what may have happened to them. there were counties in north carolina that had real trouble in terms of their voting polls, their voter rolls. long lines, poll books fai...

Targeted by the russian effort ahead of the election to target voting infrastructure. im concerned its taken the department of homeland security a year and a half to respond to the state in terms of trying to get help on this. >> this is ran area in terms of the voting instruct of deep interest to us but also to the homeland security committee which has done great work in looking at our vulnerabilities going forward. in terms of how many answers weve been able to get in the intelligence committe...

Puts is seem gll squarelied you your oversight as chairman of house intelligence. one of the things you and i have talked about over the past few weeks and months is that thing that ought to be under your purview, that the intelligence agencies and the fbi ought to be briefing to you as chairman of the intelligence committee if not to your full committee, just have been kept from you. and i guess i wonder if theres any evolution in that in terms of you understanding what you havent been told tha...

Improve or replace old and broken-down voting machines. california is pushing for a full update to its machines in time for the 2020 election. nbc news senior investigative and legal correspondent cynthia mcfadden joins me now from new york. hey, cynthia. >> hey, geoff. its absolutely right. california is really leading the way. the secretary of state in california has ordered that all of the 58 districts, voting districts in the state, all of the counties upgrade all their voting machines. its ...

Rises to the level of criminal conspiracy. whether they violated the law. you can collude without violating the law. and i know the senate intelligence committee came out and said they found no direct evidence of criminal conspiracy, but thats not the sentence intelligence committee, its the fbi and the special counsels team to do the criminal investigation. i was hoping that the senate intelligence committee was going to look at what the russians actually did. how did the government respond? th...

Massive disinformation campaign from russia. 2018 the mid terms did go relatively smoothly. coats did make an effort to note that there has been no evidence that the any of the voting infrastructure has been hacked into. but he is very much sounding a warning here as we look ahead to 2020 not just saying that the landscape could look very different, that the tactics that are going to be used could look very different, but that it might not just be russia. russia will not only expand the tactics ...