snowstorm. that s where we are right now. mika that s where we are. yep. mika, if i could just dovetail real quick on mike s last point there. the other side of this, that mcconnell still adheres to despite the trumpian effect on his decision making with respect to the legislation that s come before the senate is this idea that the bills that have been proposed offer some form of federal oversight or federal mandate on our elections. sort of nationalizing the elections process in a way that mcconnell philosophically has always had a problem with. that s his hook, that s his safe harbor if you will, on a lot of this, from a philosophical stand point that these decisions should be rightly left to the 50 states to decide how to manage and run their elections. but a bill a federal bill that says that every state must have a backup, a paper ballot backup doesn t encroach necessarily on that freedom to
social media doing all sorts of disinformation and m misinformation in terms of influence. we have hackers all around the world. why wouldn t we want to take these simple measures? the first measure is election integrity and we should be making sure every poll is verifiable, has some sort of backup so every american knows when they vote that their vote is accurate and true. the president just tweeted, i want to share it, we should immediately pass voter i.d. to ensure the safety and sanctity of our voting system. also, paper ballots as backup, old fashioned but true. what do you think about that? well, i would agree with the paper ballot backup for sure. as clint mentioned you need to have a way of gang americans confidence their vote was counted and counted correctly. if there is any sort of disinformation out there that the vote has been hacked. as clint mentioned the russians are unlikely to actually go in and change votes but they can spread online that they have the ability t
going to win them the senate, that s going to win them the house or win them the presidency. t the issue people did cite was immigrations. if that s true, then the democrats could be in a lot of trouble. immigration and health care. ben, this past week the senate intelligence committee released their own russia report detailing how moscow actually targeted the election systems in all 50 states. today, that committee s vice chair revealed how secure our electoral process is ahead of next year. take a listen. what we are hearing from attorney generals and secretary of states across the country is they need more help. what we are hearing is that there needs to be that paper ballot backup. who could be against that? what we are hearing is the manipulation they are using through facebook and twitter and the fake accounts is something that pits american against american. the question to you, what s
know, on the need to shore up our election system. we need to make sure every ballot box has got a paper ballot backup so in case any machine was ever hacked into, we could still make sure the integrity of the vote. i think there are needs for improvement on the private companies, three private companies that control 90% of all our voter files to make sure that miss isn t done. arthel: mischief isn t done. arthel: another bil would say e fbi would be notified of assistance offered by foreign governments and also considering that mr. mueller on thursday made it very plain, saying that russia did in fact not only did they interfere in 2016 but they re going to do it in 2020 if nothing stops them. maybe it s other countries as well. so would these bills, brad, protect the integrity of our
done since 2016 to insure they don t, morgan. and barbara, you have been on the hill. i mean, what can democrats do at this point? is there anything they can do to force this issue? absolutely. this is the most outrageous thing because here we have bipartisanship in the senate intelligence committee. warning us that we have to do something about our election security. and mitch mcconnell, who i worked with for many years, has turned into someone else. he always was kind of grumpy, but now he says he s the grim reaper of the senate. well, he s now the grim reaper of the country. and he s thwarting our democracy. when you have bipartisan support to make sure we help our election officials across our great nation secure the elections, have a paper ballot backup. what he s doing is malfeasance, and it s only confirming to me