search for evidence for more let's have a little journalism lesson with georgetown professor chris chambers out chris the secretaries of state from several states have confirmed their election infrastructure is or not in fact targeted by russian hackers. they actually the secretary of state in california even said the information v.h.s. gave them was just bad but this bad information made in the press made it into the papers well it wasn't even the you know it that was the after effect i mean the initial stories were like hacking you know the taking down our system electricity grid and know that yeah the you know who we're going to have to break the machines open a recount redo the election redo all those elections and all those counties that was the hysteria and you know it was based on a lot of little snippets of things that the h.s. was saying and just the general atmosphere of anti russian reporting so that that story broke out there and you know you know talking about obscure blogs we're talking about you know the post new york times we're talking about the three broadcast networks we'

what are the higher ups saying to the producers it's crazy all great questions need to be asked chris chambers professor of journalism at georgetown university thanks so much for your time. voting machines are vulnerable that's according to a report released at death con hacking conference in washington d.c. today the report shows hackers were able to hack into all twenty five machines tested the breaches vary by machine and the report says safeguards must be put in place ahead of the next men term and presidential elections of course this is only said the fire of a legit russian interference in the twenty sixteen election but do we need russians to read our system for more let's bring in investigative journalist author greg palast always great to see you greg as i was. at the sky thing earlier with mr chambers allegations by the department of homeland security that russia hacked voting machines last year have fallen apart but you've been collecting information on a different way our democracy has been undermined can you explain for viewers what cross-check is but let me just follow up on that

cory booker, bob casey, tom harper and chris coons all signing on. in the other chamber today, house democrats pushed for the passage of gun control legislation that would strengthen background checks. pennsylvania congress begman dw evans. >> we are not safe in this country. we need to face up to the realities of whether you be in the movie theater, a church or concert, you name it. >> house democrats say they want legislation strengthening background checks passed immediately. stay tuned for "nbc nightly news" with lester holt coming up right after this news cast. >>> to the other headlines we're following at 6:00 with my co-anchor, jim rosenfield, in the studios. >> jacqueline we'll check back with you. >>> we do have breaking news to tell you about. skyforce10 live over this scene in feltonville. this crash involved a police officer on a bike and two cars. it's happening in the southbound lanes of roosevelt boulevard near front street. the officer, we are told, has minor injuries. you see right there the car on its side? we are working to find out if anyone in that v

chamber. >> it's disturbing when you put it that way, chris. >> what i thought about when i read this was the president's comments after charlottesville. because it seems like he was doing a care of parallel thing. >> i think my impression from reading these e-mails is that bannon and milo and people really see this as two sides. and -- >> that's right. >> i mean, that extend to all of their coverage. and that came through again and again in the e-mail. and the hashtag war which is what he -- sort of the way he exhorts the troops. engaging war on twitter and in the media and in every possible realm of american life trchlts term they use fellow traveler, a left wing term and the idea being that there is a war and there's only two sides and the nazis and the racists are on our side because it's a popular front against our enemies. >> and then, you know, sort of another aspect of that is breitbart has an incredibly aggressive pr operation whose sort of entire job was to go to outlets and police their language around him, you know, as a white nationalist or white supremacist. >> while he's gettin

chamber for them. >> all right, ali soufan, thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. >> we've been learning from eyewitnessesbout those moments of terror and incredible heroic actions taken both by first responders, and just fellow concertgoers. i'm joined now by msnbc correspondent jacob soboroff who is with survivors. i heard so many stories of people acting in almost unfathomably courageous and selfless ways to get people out of harm's way. >> some of those folks are in this room, chris. i'm up above you, 19 floors above you off the street level inside the mandalay bay in a room here with a group of friends that was here for the concert, like so many other people. this is jamie. this is her sister, cindy, cindy's husband steve and their friend dale, a retired los angeles firefighter. i want to let everybody kind of share with us, chris, what they went through last night. the first thing i want to ask jamie, how are you all doing? you were down there with cindy as well as dale at the concert. >> i think we're fine now. but it was very scary. we were sitting there enjoying the music. we heard what we though

chris called this jeff flake's kamikaze mission. he's making a big statement but he's also not going to be in the chamber next year.e first thing for most of them is self-preservation and standing up to trump does not equal that. >> but, i mean, corker, flake, mccain, they'll be there for 14 months. that's a long time. the entirety of the legislation that he'll need for another run will be during that time. i want to move on to this hillary clinton news. something the president has not tweeted yet at 5:37. certainly when he does it will be about this news, the dnc and clinton campaign helped fund research that led to this infamous dossier through this gps company, basic fusion gps. basically it's opposition research. a washington post story cnn can confirm. how significant is this news? >> it's a big deal. it's one of the things that kicked off the news of this dossier helped kick off the entire russian investigation that has, you know, turned into this onion peeling back and the bob mueller investigation, you can tie it back in some way to this opposition research. that's one of the first things we sort of learned

chris, something you may not know is that the u.s. capital has a pest infestation, a real one, mice and rats have infested the capitol. there was a rat seen running outside the senate chamberas a man's foot. call the pest exterminators. >> democrats or republicans? i'm just kidding, go ahead. >> when trump said that the widow of la david johnson fabricated the call, his voters believed him. 56% of trump voters says that they thought that the widow and the congresswoman had totally made that up. >> that's only half of trump supporters. >> true. that's not so great. >> that's not for the country at large, even when the chief of staff is confirming that account, that's a big number. >> i know. what a world. go ahead, ashley. >> we know that bannon is going after mitch mcconnell, mcconnell started dropping opposition on bannon. republicans don't want to be associated with him in the midterms. >> what can you say against bannon besides the obvious? he's a bully. >> well, there's some allegations of anti-semitism, there's dirty stuff from his divorce. >> oh. divorces always work in politics, don't they? thank you ashley parker, and erica. >>> when we return, let me finish with t