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Dead heat and suggesting that that is sort of a moral victory, but of course moral victories does not change the fact that that seat is in democrat control and there are real questions about what president trump's impact will be as we head toward the midterms. let's remember, this is a district that he won by more than 20 points in 2016. and you know, my wife's family is out from west moreland county. that is trump country. and the fact that there is now a loss here, even a narrow one is worrisome to the white house. >> and silly to spin. >> and white house republicans had their talking point....

The president had a view in the campaign. we wanted to make sure that partisan politics did not color state officials' reaction to the information, point one. point two is we also knew that the russians wanted to undercut confidence in our electoral system. we did not want to play into their hands. in fact, we didn't. as a result, we had 33 states work with the department of homeland security to scan and strengthen their systems. that ends up being very important to the outcome of the election. >> if putin's goal was to elect donald trump, then how is it that what you did in 2016 was the right...

A level that the public might have taken even more seriously. >> for two reasons, chuck, and i can come back to whether the public had an opportunity through the reporting to understand exactly what was happening. but for two reasons. one, you know how we run our elections and our electoral infrastructure. it's by state and local officials who are partisans, republicans and democrats. we feared that if it looked like the president was involved, that this was a partisan matter. at the time we were in the middle of the campaign. the president had a view in the campaign. we wanted to make sure th...

Liberties abused by the executive branch. there is a legitimate issue as to whether or not an american civil liberties were violated in the fisa process. point two. this is a completely separate matter from bob mueller's investigation. his investigation should be allowed to take its course. point number three. there may have been malfeasance by people at the f.b.i. and let me finish my points. there may have been malfeasance at the f.b.i. by certain individuals. so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. sun shine is the best disi...

You need a super majority vote to override a president's veto, to go to war, that sort of thing for a constitutional amendment. unless it's one of those five circumstances, it ought to be 51 votes. point two, even if you're going to have this ridiculous minority rules senate, at least make them filibuster. this isn't like strong thurman where he had the stand on the senate floor for whatever it was, a week without going to the bathroom. they say we have an intent to filibuster. if mr. mcconnell wanted to fund the government, he could do it. but i think the fix is in and they all want to force ...