it was short of the lawmakers needed for a vote. killing the bill for the legislative session. it may be dropped only temporarily. greg abbott, a republican, saying it is deeply disappointing the bill didn t reach his desk, vowing to call a special session. after hours of heated debate, after republicans refusing to take questions about the legislation. it became clear republicans were going to resort to extreme tactic to shut off debate, even though we were still fighting the bill, forced our hand and led to the walkout at 10:30, 10:45. it would ban 24 hour voting, making voting boxes. and it would have barred early voting sunday before 1:00 p.m., the poll efforts that are popular with black churches. it is a witch hunt.
what message do i need to transmit to the american people. bottom line, i suspect that the president has never in almost two years directed the full national security council to meet on how to counter russian interference in american elections. amazing. > how alarming to you, you said as a security guy, right? how alarming is it that the nation s commander in chief is so blase about the russians. the alarming part is not what the russians can do. they re a third world economy. we can beat them military wise. the question is what everyday american who are looking at facebook and twitter, how they internet going into the 2020 elections how to read what they see on social media, how they interpret russian efforts to make sure sure there are social divisions in america. look, we can defend voting boxes. we can defend state elections against russian interference. what we need is somebody i don t
nation s commander in chief is so blase about the russians. the alarming part is not what the russians can do. they re a third world economy. we can beat them military wise. the question is what everyday american who are looking at facebook and twitter, how they internet going into the 2020 elections how to read what they see on social media, how they internet russian efforts to make sure there are social divisions in america. look, we can defend voting boxes. we can defend state elections against russian interference. what we need is somebody i don t want fbi director, the director of homeland security or secretary of homeland security. what we need is somebody to speak to the american people about how they need to protect themselves. my concern is not about what the russians are doing. my concern is whether everyday american knows they re at risk every time they turn on their facebook account. today they think it s a big lie. it s not. the sorry for coughing in your ear. i tried
political differences can be decided at the ballot box, and in the voting boxes that we have on the house floor, and not with violence like we saw today. i m going to reference what is happening behind us. this is a public place. this is an individual with a megaphone coming out of capitol hill behind where we are set sup. that s what happens in the capitol. this is a place where the american public has a right to roam and they do roam. at the same time, you you don t have a security detail with you here. you didn t have one at the baseball field, since you re not a member of leadership. do you feel safe on a day-to-day basis? i feel safe around the capitol. and steve scalise was there, or it would have been a tragic massacre if those two brave capitol policemen would not have fought back against this madman. and you are right about freedom of speech. this is what makes america great. the gentleman behind us offering
constitution and that means you have to protect the underlying thing that makes this work. it s just a piece of paper unless people trust that their vote in their election system works. that was a direct attack on the election system, and that needs to be taken very seriously. i m glad democrats are joining. there haven t been a lot of them. now they re joining in this understanding of russia s role in the world. i look forward to maintain american strength. final thought i couldn t agree more with adam and the wave that russia is trying to undermine our democracy, but it s important to say this too. donald trump didn t did not win the popular vote. he lost the popular vote. he won by a few hundred thousand votes in key states, and the clear intent of this russian effort was to influence the minds of americans. it wasn t to attack our voting boxes or tallies or what not. it was to undermine the opinions of americans.