Seemed wrong. But. Just dont call. Me. Yet to say proud to stay active. And engaged with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Time after time say were going on the ground on leave of the deadline for british subjects to register to vote the head of a general election in 15 days time the 22 of the us president ial rally in florida by donald trump coming up on the show after a 2nd week of arguably futile impeachment hearings in the u. S. Comes to an end we ask law professor and democrat turned independent timken over if the democrats should look to their own party when it comes to attacks on democracy talks collapse in the worlds youngest nation oil rich south sudan we ask the un with a britain bears a share of the blame in the country born of lobbying from london and hollywoods George Clooney all the people coming up in todays going on the grab a festive or at all trump rallies his supporters in florida as part of his campaign t
November you can already see that the impeachment inquiry is probably strengthen donald trump in some key swing states a poll that came out recently shows him ahead why i should say Public Opinion against the impeachment inquiry by a good margin now in wisconsin for instance im afraid the even media and other nato nations seems to reflect your media in the United States because theyre very excited about the impeachment proceedings actually and i think youre referring to that gallup poll which Shows Increased support for trump joining the cause of these impeachment hearings why is that you know 2016 was the year of the outsider and we saw that in the democratic primaries with Bernie Sanders surging and of course the dirty tricks that the d. N. C. Had to play to stop him and we sort on the republican side with donald trump taking down the entire establishment and you know i think all of this impeachment inquiry makes stuff. Trump look like hes still the outsider still battling the swamp
Americas elections. I will now recognize myself when Opening Statement. Yesterday the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system come close quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. They are elections very core of our democracy under a aa tactic special counsel most report in no Uncertain Terms detailed how reform government attack on her 2016 elections. The russian objectives were clear, deep in distress and discord in a society come secure the election of one candidate of president over the other, and in so doing undermined confidence in the integrity of our elections and damaged our nations standing in the world. There is no evidence russian affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did successfully steal thousands of documents from american citizens that
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Of election infrastructure used in federal elections. Aging equipment, underresourced jurisdictions, and the interference by foreign entities or nonstate actors leaves the system vulnerable to exploitation that can undermine confidence in Election Outcomes and ineffective and vulnerable equipment can also discourage participation in federal elections. It comes to the floor after the committee on House Administration held three hearings in the First Six Months of this year that addressed the integrity of our elections. In february, the Committee Held the for the people, our american democracy hearing, where the integrity of our democracy, including critical steps to improve the security and reliability of our election infrastructure was addressed. On may 8, the Committee Held an Election Security hearing where we heard testimony about the urgent need to upgrade election infrastructure and the lack of ongoing investment in the wake of new threats. On may 21, the Committee Held an oversig