jennifer haggy, don curry, david schmidt, ronen k. i can't pronounce the last name. >> good afternoon. my name is catherine baits. i'm a former project manager at a tech company and a resident of the cast co. ten years ago as an intern, i was tasked with researching improvements we could make to the election system, and in the last ten years, not a lot has changed. this is an incredible opportunity. i really urge you to support fully funding the 40s million to -- $4 million to get this going. >> thank you. come on up. >> thank you. i'm sure you're getting hungry and tired. my name is carly. i'm from the central sunset district, and i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i think it's a profound and fundamental responsibility of every city, county, state, and our national governmental bodies to make sure that every vote cast is accurately counted. that's at risk because of new technologies, and the response is new technologies. but new means cutting edge means i don't know what's going to happen, all kind of contingen

i'm david schmidt. i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i want to say that this is really an urgent matter of ballot security, election security, and national security. so please vote to fully fund the open source paper ballot system. thank you. >> all right. thank you, next speaker. >> don curry. i'm a california clean money volunteer. i'm up here from menlo park. this is just a great idea. go for this. >> all right. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm emily levy, the director of communications for americans united for democracy, integrity, and transparency in elections. we're a national group doing work on trying to make elections more transparent, have more integrity and with as much public oversight as pop. i'm heartenedded by the support that i hear from so many people today for open source in san francisco. i'm thrilled of that the city that i grew up in looking at taking the lead on this issue, and i want to support the idea of fully allocating the funds for this project. thank you very much. >> great. thank you. next spe

joining me now the author of russian roulette, a best-seller about this stuff, michael schmidt, david, and jill winebanks, former assistant watergate prosecutor and nbc news contributor. in order i want you all to talk about this first. david, this mixing of funds,gyning of funds, $500,000 coming in from this cousin of this oligarch into the coffers of mr. michael cohen, $130,000 being paid by the coffers of mr. cohen, how does it all relate? it seems to me to relate to russia with the hanky pank and coveri covering up for it. >> january 6, 2017, the intelligence committee releases its report saying russia attacked our election in part to help get trump get elected. that's the environment this time. trump is denying that this ever happened, and here's his fixer taking $500,000 or starting to from one of the chief oligarchs over there. >> they're not denying this, by the way. >> of course, they're not denying it and that's very interesting. because we reported jones back in 2016 he had steel and ross with cyprus involved in shady russian money. and at the same time this cousin of his w

are three contributors, joyce vance a former federal prosecutor, michael schmidt is a reporter for the "new york times" and david ignatius a columnist with the "washington post." when i watched that today, i have to tell you all today, i reminded myself of joseph welsh in the mccarthy hearings back in '54. i never nude how far trump would go. today i realized he'll go all the way today. he came up with this conspiracy theory about spying and spy gate and how this was all something new and awful by the federal government to capture him all to avoid detection in whatever he did with the russians your thoughts? your reporting? >> i mean, the interesting thing here is that he continues to push this notion but he still seems afraid to actually do anything more severe like go after rosenstein or replace sessions. that i think is where congress is keeping their eye on him. what would he do at that level. i think to some extent republicans look at this and say look, he's making noise. it's an inspector general investigation and they can live with that. the real question will be when rosenstein do what he wants him to. i

nor republican o'neil, david sherman, camille moore, thomas coleman, mitchell service, hedger vashen and paul lean schmidt. we could not have done our job if not for those people who work long hours to see that we got it done. so here i am in the united states senate. i am speaking with my first amendment rights. you're gathered in the galleries today and watching this on c-span because of the first amendment, gathering because the amendment that allows us to freely gather and asystemmable without fear of rett tricks by the government. our bill of rights are the rights we operate under. we wouldn't have it if not for our veterans. next monday we'll give thanks for every veteran who sacrificed their life and gave the ultimate sacrifice for you and i. that's not unreasonable to think back and say, you know, had our soldiers not done what they did in world war i and world war ii, we might be speaking german or japanese today rather than english. because they fought for us in the two great world wars, they -- and preserved our liberty and freedom, we speak today as free americans and we enjoy the freedom that