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>> how are things -- how are suspected gang members being identified for ice enforcement? is it just through local law enforcement? are the data bases that you are using? how do you know how to find these gang members? >> local law enforcement, they are usually the ones that -- they have the most intelligence on gang members. as far as what we look for to find gang members, i would rather not discuss that because i certainly dont want to share that information with a gang member who may be watch...

Going to protect the election system from russian interference or interference from any nation down the road the white house points back to this commission. is this the right tool in order to sort of protect these democratic procedures and policies moving forward? >> no. it certainly is not. and bear in mind the commission is now telling people that they would take the data, including data theyre not entitled to receive by law and data they should not have and slap them on a server in the white ...

In the 2016 election. it has run into a little pushback from 45 secretaries of state as well as members of congress demanding that the commission be dismantled. an article by my next guest suggests the commission could be in for a fight over voting rights all because of this picture. "usa today" reporter and msnbc contributor heidi przybilla is here to explain. we have had secretary of state after secretary of state after politician on air explaining why they are not participating, not handing o...

On technical reasons. while at the same time, you will have this commission collecting information that allows it to kind of essentially have a data base for voters searchable by those very items like your party affiliation. so thats raising red flags and its not a partisan thing. you saw the mississippi secretary of state say kobach should jump in the gulf of mexico because anybody who cares about potential federal abuse of power and the federal government centralizing this information would be...

Secretary of state steve simon. i ask him, what are you trying to hide, sir? >> absolutely nothing. i have to say, im not sure if i were this president of the united states i would lead with the what do you have to hide argument, given some of the requests for tax returns and other things. leaving that on the shelf for a minute, absolutely nothing to hide. but the reason i am one of over 40 secretaries of state on a bipartisan basis to say no to this intrusive data dump is that first of all, i d...

For being particularly liberal, found north carolina and texas deliberately created their voter i.d. laws for the purpose of discriminating against minority voters, not because there was a voter fraud problem in the state. so i think the president has really married his personal issue around the popular vote in is this election to one of the pillars of the right, which is proving there is widespread voter fraud and using that premise to engage in voter suppression and to intimidate voters. i thi...

Liberal, have found that two states, north carolina and texas, deliberately created their voter i.d. laws for the purpose of discriminating against minority voters, not because there was a voter fraud problem in the state. and so i think the president has really married his personal issue around the popular vote in this election to one of the pillars of the right, which is proving that there is widespread voter fraud and using that premise to engage in voter suppression and to intimidate voters ...

Were apparently going after the voter file, the data base of registered voters. in dallas county, thats over 1 million people, your name, your date of birth, the address at which youre registered to vote. they check that against the data base when you show up to vote. you wouldnt have to mess with the counting of the vote in dallas county, or texas as a state, if you could screw up the voter file in the one or two counties where there was really crucial vote that was going to be determinative of...

Of those addresses in which hacking attempts had been made, at least some of those 17 definitively were computers in russia. now, what the hack attempt was there was not on computer systems that were used to tabulate the vote, but if you think about it, that doesnt necessarily matter. right? that specific doesnt matter, right? these particular hacking attempts in dallas county, they were apparently going after the voter file, the data base of registered voters. in dallas county, thats over 1 mil...

Indictment or prosecution here. governor rick snyder also issuing a statement backing up the two officials and saying its not justice for flint nor for those who have been charged, lyon and wells are instrumental in flints recovery. they have my full faith and confidence and remain on duty. we can tell you criminal charges of this kind relate together death of residents are extremely rare. a professor compiled a data base looking at corruption and he said according to detroit free press that the...