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Be opened to a few oligarchs means absolutely nothing. the national security issue is the fact that donald trump continues to say yes or da in russian to russian interference in the 2016 elections. i spoke the last week talking to experts on voting machines, voting processes. this white house and this congress have done absolutely nothing. you can be assured that russia will be voting the in the 2018 elections and consequently, whatever happened in helsinki, which we will never know, because oft...

The country, closing bank accounts north al -- or not allowing them to be opened means nothing. the national security issue is the fact that donald trump continues to say yes to russian interference in the 2018 elections. i spent the last week talking with experts, nonpartisan experts on voting machines, voting procedures, voting processes. this white house and this congress have done absolutely nothing. you can be assured that russia will be voting in the 2018 elections and consequently whateve...

Severe consequences. >> charles, we can tell youre already passionate about it, but another example of the point mr. sanders is making and the point you just made is the president has undermined his own national security adviser this weekend. because the national security adviser said, hey, by way of this indictment, its indisputable that russia was interfering with elections. the president didnt like that. >> hes not only undermining his national security adviser. he is literally undermining ou...

Have been -- or whose voting processes have been manipulated by the russians. under ordinary circumstances, the president would order a crackdown, lets figure out what happened, lets go after it, lets pass laws, lets hold the russians accountable. none of that. so in effect, the elections coming up are much more vulnerable than they would be otherwise. a president whose insecurities are putting a threat -- putting a danger over our own election process going-forward. >> this is something which t...

Wanting to have his election diminished in some way. if he accepts the conclusion of his intelligence agencies, he thinks thats somehow going to diminish him, so he pushes it off. >> hes said that publicly time and time again. you assume maybe privately hes -- >> well, exactly. >> were able to -- thats just a public facade. its so deep and ingrained he cant get over it. >> what this story really makes clear, and what people have wondered about is because of his aversion to hearing this, he doesn...

Order, his homeland security adviser is making sure that we take steps to protect our election system and all of our other cyber defenses. secondly, he instituted an election commission that is making sure that we look at all of how were voting and make sure that we maintain integrity in all of our voting processes. >> so the press secretary was asked, what has that commission done? doesnt look like its done a whole lot. spicer said that next week the commission will be sending out a letter to s...

Information that is fact checked and just making assumptions with no data is helpful to know one. we shouldnt be trying to create some concern around whether or not our voting processes are strong. >> let me get you on two other things that are much more pressing. we have russians behind the hacks during the election, we have the president of the united states saying he didnt believe it. now theres an executive order he may be signing and preparing to remove sanctions and has a big call with the...

Process that the -- of the united states set up many, many years ago. so that all of the power didnt get concentrated in the presidency. so weve heard a lot of talk. weve heard a lot of executive orders, we havent seen what is really going to happen. what congress is going to do with their share of this power which is to appropriate the money. >> and senator hutcheson, this issue trump has been raising in sean spooiser addressed in his briefing yesterday. trump believing apparent lay it millions...

Springing up of more of these voter i.d. laws, starting with the home of the republican party in wisconsin? john? >> its a big deal, chris. its a very big deal. you mentioned the 2012 election. if you go back just a little way to 2004 and 2000, wisconsin had presidential race that were so close that 10, 12,000 votes were deciding that john kerry won the state in 04 and al gore won in 200. this is a very closely divided state. if you begin to mangle the voting processes, if you make it harder to ...

Democracy, remember, theyve been trying to cut days and here and there since 2008 presidential election. theres a rich history of state sort of secretaries being involved in the voting processes. remember from 2000 secretary of state florida katharine harris is one who ratified george bushs election as president and that was contested. then brought to the supreme court. ken blackwell, 2004, secretary of state in ohio, was involved in some issues and questions about vote in ohio 2004. a key posit...