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Telling moments yesterday, for me at least, it was also perhaps when we saw bob mueller at his most animated, is when he talked about the threat from russia as it pertains to interference in our elections. bob mueller pointing out that russians were probably interfering in our elections or at least attempting to as we all sat there. mueller said that he expects it to happen again in 2020. tuesday, we heard from the fbi director, christopher wray, he said, quote, the russians are absolutely intent on trying to interfere with our elections. do those two key moments from this week do anything to ...

Reportable. campaigns could have to report social media responses or interactions. you would report every non-u.s. citizen or dreamer who volunteers for their campaign or even knocks on the door of a foreign national. >> i would point out that her reading of my legislation is not accurate. the only thing that would have to be reported if an agent or foreign government or foreign national offered something that was already prohibited. in canada, and i'll take my colleague at her word, if there are ways to improve on this ledgislation i'm wide-open. >> majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked bip...

Interference. is that impeachable? >> i'm leaving that to speaker pelosi and how she moves forward. i can tell you -- >> how do you hold the president accountable for the rhetoric and the action without impeachment? >> that will be started in the house. what i'm focused on, chuck, is how we protect 2020. we pass the legislation. we pass election security legislation so there's a paper trail and we put guardrails on social media so you don't have the kind of manipulation of fake accounts and what will come soon with the deep fakes that i know we're going to have. this is the thing that's so stu...

To achieve political objectives. >> is that dangerous? >> as a national security policy professional, i can't begin to tell you how dangerous i think that is. because it has different effects. one hand, he has the potential to abuse national security legal authority. so the constitution grants the president and certain acts grant the president these wide latitude of authorities to act in a real national emergency. a reeal national security threa. the trouble is there is no information that has been provided in the public domain indicating that the border wall, the $5 billion that he wants, act...

Where he was signing the security legislation, the secretary of homeland security praised her on the cyber security reg station. he is one of the people he is eying and shifting through the exit. including john kelly and the chief of staff. there is talk about him being dissatisfied and that mattis is a democrat. there is intrigue there. there is clearly more than a little bit of unrest in this cabinet. he is putting a positive face on it for now. i think it will be interesting to see how long he keeps that up. we did just have a pretty punishing mid-term result for him and he was looking to m...