interfere in our 2020 election and is doing so right now as we speak, the democrats tried to get the senate to vote on bipartisan election security bills. republicans blocked the measures. this afternoon shortly after mcconnell s angry remarks, senate minority leader responded. it s leader mcconnell, they don t say majority leader, who can determine what s put on the floor, and he has put nothing on the floor on elections when last year we attempted in the appropriations bill to add more money-to-help the states harden their systems against cyber attack, leader mcconnell opposed it and said it s not needed. still with us are jeremy bash and peter baker. jeremy, let s talk motive. what does mitch mcconnell possibly have to gain by holding up or destroying this kind of legislation? well, i don t think he s a russian asset, but i do think he s doing the bidding of the president.
things, dan coats, the aforementioned director of national intelligence is put in place, a top executive to focus on hardening defenses. to jeremy s point about president trump s reaction is part of it. i think president trump looks at this kind of legislation, this kind of effort by the democrats as a way of delegitimizing him. saying his presidency not legitimate because he wasn t elected fairly and squarely. so rather than focusing on what the russians did or didn t do, it s looked at in that context. joe score borough might have landed on something that hurts. mcconnell may prefer majority leader to moscow mitch, for sure. gentlemen, thank you, as always, for coming on. coming up for us on the eve of this next round of democratic debates, all 20 men and women, what the newest poll numbers reveal about the front-runner and his closest competitors. dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do?
who s being accused of being soft on russia and is firing back at his opponents for mccarthyism. that s quite a turnabout. mitch mcconnell said it s just a political game on the part of the democrats, that they are all about embarrassing the president, that by putting the legislation on the floor the day after mueller, it was more about making a point, a statement about putting the president on the hook rather than a serious effort at legislation. and he decided he would take one for the team in effect by blocking in. there s a cost to that. the cost is you re going to be accused of blocking something that sounds reasonable to a lot of americans. his point is doing things we ought to be doing. dan coats, the aforementioned director of national intelligence is put in place, a top executive to focus on hardening defenses. to jeremy s point about president trump s reaction is part of it. i think president trump looks at this kind of legislation, this kind of effort by the democrats
blocking in. there s a cost to that. the cost is you re going to be accused of blocking something that sounds reasonable to a lot of americans. his point is doing things we ought to be doing. dan coats, the aforementioned director of national intelligence is put in place, a top executive to focus on hardening defenses. to jeremy s point about president trump s reaction is part of it. i think president trump looks at this kind of legislation, this kind of effort by the democrats as a way of delegitizing him. so rather than focusing on what the russians did or didn t do, it s looked at in that context. joe score borough might have landed on something that hurts. mcconnell may prefer majority leader to moscow mitch, for sure. gentlemen, thank you, as always, for coming on. coming up for us on the eve of this next round of democratic debates, all 20 men and women, what the newest poll numbers reveal about the front-runner and his closest competitors. hom.
witness our own country seemingly powerless to do anything about it. well, not just powerless, but polarized. we don t even agree what needs to be done or the idea that we were attacked and how important it was. it s really fascinating for us to grew up in the cold war to look at this moment and realize that it s the republican leader who s being accused of being soft on russia and is firing back at his opponents for mccarthyism. that s quite a turnabout. mitch mcconnell said it s just a political game on the part of the democrats, that they are all about embarrassing the president, that by putting the legislation on the floor the day after mueller, it was more about making a point, a statement about putting the president on the hook rather than a serious effort at legislation. and he decided he would take one for the team in effect by