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>> reporter: the 8:00 joke there seems like -- >> garrett. >> reporter: that may come back to haunt somebody in 2018. >> were you awake at 8:00 this morning? were you working? >> reporter: i was awake and i've been up for quite some time and i see a lot of these law makers who have time to get up and put on a suit and go to "morning joe" but don't have time to come to an election security briefing. i think it's something that might come around again if we're having another conversation about russian interference in january of 2019. >> one tenth of the members of the house showed up to this thi...

Russia investigation. here's what we're watching the in of the last hour or so a classified briefing led by top trump officials on election security happened. we're starting to hear from lawmakers on that and we're waiting to hear from speaker ryan to see if he can tell us anymore about these new developments. in an hour we'll hear from members of the republican freedom caucus who wanted a essential spesht counsel to look into what they claim were surveillance abuses at the doj. this latest demand coming after the whout white house announced a deal to see highly classified material on the russ...

The house intelligence committee closed its investigation after just over a year. the rest are still going handling the same issues that mueller is, russian interference and obstruction of justice. casie hunt is on the hill. you have covered every minute of the investigations. bring us up to speed on where they stand and on something else, too. i thought there was supposed to be an election security briefing today about this. >> would this be a classified briefing with top officials including the director of national intelligence. ask republicans to do this and that would require additional an...