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Antjuan Seawright, a CBS News political contributor, discusses the Republicans reliance on disinformation to whip up support and win elections.

>> first of all, mitch mcconnell says this should be a bipartisan effort. i think everybody could probably agree with that. it shouldn't be something that's contentious. why did the republicans vote against it? >> that's a mystery, because it should be bipartisan. that intelligence committee report is bipartisan. what it shows is that the russians began this misinformation and disinformation attack on our democracy as early as 2014, well before the 2016 election. they are continuing. they probed and scanned, they have activities ongoing in at least 21 states, and there's unanimity in the intel...

2020, especially with new cyber tools that are continuing to fall in the hands of adversaries who would do us harm. >> that's, of course, fbi director chris wray. that last bit was from today shortly before today's senate intelligence committee landed. what is important is how much was redacted. as dire as it appears, we still don't know the half of it. the president, on the other hand, does, but he so far isn't raising any new alarm. joining us now one of the senators co-sponsoring some of the block legislation, connecticut democrat richard blumenthal. thank you so much for being here. firs...

>> sandra: fox news alert now. subcommittee hearing this afternoon on lessons learned from investigations into russian disinformation attack. impact on our elections and what can be done to stop them. catherine herridge following all this live from washington and she has what we can expect when that hearing gets underway this afternoon. >> good morning. the house hearing is focused on the russian disinformation campaign targeting european elections and what lessons can be learned for american voters in 2020. the european commission recently released this report that found the russians spread b...

Crimes. that to me is problematic that it's something that the president of the united states is sanctioning in various issues right now. >> all right, elie and kim, thank you so much. well, also this morning, two new reports detail just how far russia went in its social media campaign to help get donald trump elected. this report commissioned by the senate intelligence committee is the most exhaustive analysis yet of moscow's disinformation attack. and it found that russia deployed every major social media platform to sow discord and push voters toward then-candidate trump. i want to bring ...