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Oligarch immediately after mcconnell personally stepped in to make sure that sanctions on that oligarch were dropped, despite his role in what happened to our election in 2016 and despite bipartisan support even from his own party for those sanctions. but don't just look back at this. look forward, right? i mean, the fbi says russia is going to do to our election in 2020 what they did in 2016. they're saying it's happening right now. no reason to expect 2020 is going to be any different. if oleg deripaska is still one of the oligarchs putin looks to to do his work around the world and given we...

>> that's right. >> let's take a listen to that. >> in the last few years, we've seen many examples of cyber actors targeting political campaigns, intelligence and direct bots to propagate divisive messaging. we've also seen examples of actors targeting election infrastructure to obtain pii, exact answers, temporarily disrupt election operations and undermine voter confidence in the electoral process. we expect much of the same in 2020. we have yet, happily, to see attacks manipulating or deleting election and voter related data or attacks that actually take election management systems offline...

Membership for nothing at all. so where does the nra get all this money? could there be a russia tie? because we know that is a spot that the trumps don't like to touch. >> it's a fascinating tale, stephanie. he's a former russian senator, deputy head of the russian central bank, and a putin crony. he formed a gun rights association in russia and began forging nra ties. he and his associate are reported to be the only russian lifetime members of the nra. in 2015, he hosted some nra officials on a trip to moscow. as you mentioned, newspapers have reported that the fbi is investigating whether a...

Government. they shouldn't trust the feds. there's a reason why state governments should run elections and not the feds. in fact, this has the fact that it's decentralized that prevents foreign powers like the russians to be able to come in and just hack into one system and control the entire voting process for the united states of america. decentralization in this case makes the most sense. the fact that you have a guy who calls himself a republican that's not a conservative and never has been saying he wants to centralize all election operations, that's frightening. and most republicans that...

Part. i think the investigations by both the house and the senate are very -- >> but he's got his own investigation. you'd have to imagine he would want to continue that, too. >> does he serve on the committee? i don't believe he does. >> he has oversight over the fbi in the judiciary committee and he is investigating. >> right, okay. so, i would say that the criminal investigation to the extent that it is beyond counterintelligence and a criminal investigation, will continue under the special counsel's auspices. the house and the senate each have a responsibility to investigate the relationsh...