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?
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.
you don t have any experience at all. yes, both jeremy and peter have agreed to stay with us over this break. coming up, mitch mcconnell had a very negative reaction to being called moscow mitch, and now the majority leader is playing defense on why he hasn t strengthened our defenses against the russians.
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. orsu distracted teenager has the car. at subaru, we re taking on distracted driving [ping] with sensors that alert you when your eyes are off the road. the all-new subaru forester.