local election officials that part of the system i feel good aboune >> we stil some paper ballots. we have some states that don't have a backup paper ballot system. i think it's langford and klobuchar together on this. where are you on this? >> i think we should have an audit trail. >> does the federal government help fund that? >> the federal government should actually -- i think we need to be more specific in the future about how encourage states to spend money. we did $380 million basically based on the 2001 standard. i was not actively part of that discussion as it came --it unti ot before the full appropriations committee. i wish we had been more specionc that, but that's money states will hopefully use to make that transition. >> why did you vote against the election securities billth was this here this week? >> there was no elections security bill this bill, but $250 million to go to the st es. >> you want it more specified? >> more specified. i don't nt this to be an annual entitlement. the distapt money and local money on how to spend it. $380 million was whay we were told

but this was, for those who worry not about purity but aboun winning and wiin the kinds of districts that david talked oout, where you are going have to attract, among others, college-educated white women who may be kind of swingish republican voters, this is -- tuesday night was good news for kind of modatdemocrats and good news for democrats overall, because i think if cortez can win in her distrt t, but she can in districts democrats need to win in to take over the house. >> brangham: right. i want to shift gears for a second. just the other day the e.p.a. was swatted down bay federal district court that argued itig hared science about a dangerous pesticide and reverse course. the e.p.a. has ignored thenc scabout climate change equally under the trump adnistration. here we have an enormous slice of the country in a terrible drought.re there are 100 in 16 or 13 states, and yet the cotion . out climate change and our national policy is just does not seem to exist. >> well, if you're an environmentalist, there's good news and bad news. the bad news is the trump administration is tryi