the reality we re in. it s one of the core messages. it s this or nothing which is a very interesting argument when the president is saying, maybe it s an opening bid. it s really interesting to watch how this white house is ramping up its pressure campaign. with the exception of the president s tweets. it s a lot of regional interviews from the white house grounds. presidential and vice presidential travel. vice president pence is going to kentucky this weekend. and it s this. this is another component of this multipronged attack. stand by. we re going to talk more about the meat of this and what has happened overnight on capitol hill. high drama. high stakes in the wee hours. lawmakers did burn the midnight oil. hours n hours of discussion on this republican plan. we just heard from paul ryan talking about. and guess what? they re still going. we ll be right back. holding yok or is it your allergy pills? break through your allergies. introducing flonase sensimist. more complete a
russian hackers were behind his information related to florida voting results possibly. put this together for us. if this was on the battlefield, this is a multipronged attack. right? you have and they ve been called out for it by the u.s. government. russia attacking senior officials, e-mails, communications documents, in the democratic party, and then via wikileaks in effect releasing them to the public on a virtually daily basis. you have repeated hacks of a number of state election systems. the suspicion has been russia for some time. today is the first time they ve said publicly they now have evidence at least one stated is the russian voting systems. then public comments from the most senior russian leaders, putin and lavrov, you know, in effect poking fun of it. denying on one hand but you get a sense from comments, smiling and laughing as it goes along. i won t repeat it. it s sickening to repeat, lavrov
saying that it s russia running the united states presidential debate. it s flattering, as i said, but it has nothing, you know, to be explained by the facts. we have not seen a single fact, a single proof. fact is, it s the judgment of the u.s. intelligence community that, in fact, russia is very much involved. brooke, let s connect the dots because it s not just one, it s a multipronged attack, as it were. one, the u.s. publicly fingered russia, this is a rare step. they don t do it lightly, on friday for being behind the hacks of the democratic national committee, various democratic officials, these e-mails we re seeing come out everyday now via wikileaks. they said in public on friday russia is behind it. they ve made that determination with high confidence. the other series of hacks going on are of voting systems in more than 20 states in the union right now and, in fact, for the first time today they ve said they ve suspected that russia is
approximately 20 minutes into the match, he d been evacuated from the stadium. like i said, it was sort of roundabout halftime, midway through the match, that we really began to start discovering the extent of the attack on stade de france. but it wasn t until much after that game had finished that we really discovered exactly, you know, how atrocious this attack on paris had been because of what happened. jonathan johnson, espn reporter who was at the stade de france when the explosion went off nearby, which was apparently the start of this multipronged attack. thanks for helping us understand what i saw tonight. i appreciate it, jonathan. thank you. one of the sort of remarkable moments tonight, and this happens when attacks aren t a single incident but they sprawl out over time and you don t know whether they re over, is that tonight while things were still under way we heard a live statement from president obama.
politically doable, immigration reform. if we are as serious as economic growth, it is time to heed the call of business leaders, labor leaders, state leaders, law-enforcement and fix our broken immigration system. let s get immigration reform done this evening. it s time, the president said, in calling on congress to act. the president made some news on the meat issue of the minimum wage. it was a multipronged attack. he said he would sign an executive order in the coming weeks requiring federal contractors to play their employees a wage of $10.10 an hour. that s fine, but that is the minimum you can play your employees. interestingly, he called on ceo s around the country to raise their workers wages privately on their own terms. he called on mayors and governors and state legislators to look into raising minimum wages around the country without