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National plan where you set a requirement that all states must, must accept any government-issued state i.d.? so if its a college. lets say from texas tech then people in texas have to accept that. >> i dont support voter i.d. as a requirement of voting as a matter of principle. but if youre going to create a better national system of voting with mandatory early voting with a limitation on early poll closings, with a whole range of things to improve democracy, we can have a discussion. but i don...

Remember, weve had in this democracy throughout the years of voting prior to -- prior to 18 months ago, only two states that have had these kind of voter i.d. requirements. all of a sudden now, an explosion of 34 states that have embarked on some journey to make it more difficult for people to vote. >> so -- >> why all of a sudden -- >> well, i think its about time. this is something like -- i remember, again, its always very instructive when you get into politics and you havent been into politi...

Like the secretary of state in indiana. its usually not voters. its elections officials. the voter i.d. is not going to eliminate integrity problems by elections officials. and so it is a solution in search of a problem. >> and now thats -- i respectfully disagree with you. fraud has been a problem in american politics for hundreds and hundreds of years. >> but not fraud by voters. >> yeah. i mean fraud by politicians or by precinct people that want to ship people in and figure out a way to get ...