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Huh... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> welcome back. mitch mcconnell is under fire for punting on election security bills as his own committee issues an alarming new report. the bipartisan senate intelligence committee led by a republican finds russia successfully targeted all 50 states. that russia's going to do it again in 2020. and that "little has been done to prevent it from happening." the report notes the committee has seen no evidence that votes were changed. the report comes after bob mueller said this. >> is this in your investigation, did y...

But i can tell you we can go down two tracks at the same time. i'm on the energy & commerce committee. part of what we've done that hasn't been reported is just last week, we passed out of committee 25 bills that included health care bills, that included stopping robocalls, that included protecting our consumers and climate change. 25 bipartisan bills. so the american people do need to note what we're doing for them but we have a job. mueller did his job. we've got do ours. >> lisa blunt rochester and an-2009 twoin twaun write. >> why is mitch mcconnell block election security bills? we're bac...

Election systems in all 50 states. it was a larger effort than previously known to the public and it happened under the noses of state and local election officials. but the bipartisan report, let's emphasize that, it's bipartisan, has not yet found a bipartisan solution. the republican-led senate is blocking to election security bills. joining me is james clapper. he's the former director of national intelligence. first question, why would a foreign adversary like russia attempt to gain access to election systems in 50 states? >> jim, in the run-up to the election in 2016 when i was still serv...

Breath of russian interference in our 2016 election. watch this. >> what i think was most important about special counsel mueller repeating the details of his report yesterday was his emphasis on how russia strongly attempted to interfere in response to a question from congressman hurd of texas said they are continuing to do it even from today. chris wray the fbi director, president trump's personally chosen fbi director repeated that same message that we need to be working on securing our 2020 elections. >> all right. but despite mueller's warning, senate republicans, they blocked two electio...

The democrats instead of coddling him should have been prosecutoring this, coming in, instead of with this ridiculous let's re-enact something that was already in the report and we're going to reread it to everybody, what was the point of that? >> yesterday what we saw, then mitch mcconnell stanls in the way of two election security bills coming out of senate. >> he said they were partisan -- >> whatever, then offer a republican bill, for election security. why isn't rick scott -- for democrats to have rick scott on a frying pan every day. we know the russians penetrated that state's election ...