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as we begin day 202 of russia's war of choice, ukrainians are pushing on with their two front counter offensive which has retaken russian occupied territory at a blistering pace. in parts, ukrainian officials claim their forces are just miles from the russian border. in liberated towns and villages, there is evidence everywhere of a hasty russian retreat. tanks and other weapons left abandoned. for weeks, ukraine has been publicly hinting at a counteroffensive at the south. plans for their independence day last month or thereabouts. but it appears the russians might have been duped b...

Extensive activity beginning in 2014 and carrying into 2017 in an attempt to intrude at some point all 50 states where the russians either tested vulnerabilities or extracted information. just your initial reaction to this. >> well, it's exactly what you expect. i was just in europe talking to members of parliament and different countries there. they said russians are trying to do the same things there. we have to understand they will try to impact our elections. we've got to be very diligent. when i was governor, i allocated dollars for cyber security, dollars to our supervisor elections at t...

Were targeted. the report states quote the russian government directed extensive activity beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into 2017 against u.s. election infrastructure at the state and local level. the report found that the russians took advantage of the nation's decentralized voting system quote exploding seams, that's exploiting those seams and found federal attempts to warn states about potential security breaches did not provide enough information or go to the appropriate people. joining me here at the table, senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute and former fbi sp...

Meantime over whether or not we are going to see the use of a nuclear option, the senate procedure called reconciliation to pass a sweeping health care overhaul. >> the two chambers, house and senate, but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side and that's just not what the founders intended. >> this president has come to the majority here in the senate and basically said change the rules, do it the way i want it done. >> i say to my friends on the republican side you may own the field right now, but you won't own it forever. and i pray god when the democrats take back contro...