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Back years and years, no one has been able to prove there is systemic vote fraud in u.s. elections. and weve been down this road before. in 2002, republican president george bush with his republican attorney general john ashcroft launched the voting integrity in addition initiative. after six years, the total number convicted, less than 150. a rutgers professor concluded the percentage of illegal votes was statistically zero. an as for the elected secretaries of state who actually run elections ...

Co-founder of the center for election innovation and research. david, the trump team has cited your report on voter fraud in the united states, the support the presidents baseless claims that millions of people illegally voted in the presidential election last year. you say the president is misinterpreting the data that you had. tell us why. >> right, i oversaw that report when i was working at pugh as the director of the elections program there and that report was just about the quality of the ...

Million people voted illegally. simply no evidence of that. >> david, jeff, thanks so much. i want to bring in former missouri secretary of state jason candor. hes a democrat and a former army captain who served in afghanistan. you might remember jason from this senatorial campaign ad where he showed how quickly he could put together an ar-15 rifle while blind folded. jason was serving as missouri secretary of state where he oversaw voting on election day. i do not have an ar-15 for you to put t...

Recently it was, i feel youre in this unique position to shed light for us about whats in between these two parallel tracks weve got. it seems whats going on with these restrictions on the ability to vote, putting these new hurdles, whether test shortening, early voting, restricting voter registration, it seems clear its being done for partisan purpose. then republicans say oh, no, its only about voter fraud. it is about voting integrity. is it clear to you that is just bunk? just a story thats ...

Partisan ship at that level was absolutely wrong. >> i feel like because of your position and where you were governor and because of how recently it was, i feel youre in this unique position to shed light for us about whats in between these two parallel tracks weve got. it seems whats going on with these restrictions on the ability to vote, putting these new hurdles, whether test shortening, early voting, restricting voter registration, it seems clear its being done for partisan purpose. then re...

For partisan purpose. then republicans say oh, no, its only about voter fraud. it is about voting integrity. is it clear to you that is just bunk? just a story thats being told to cover up? >> its crystal clear to me. you couldnt be more right in my humble opinion and you know, certainly, we can say this about all these roadblocks that are put in the way of people exercising their right to vote and we saw it in dramatic fashion this last election day in florida. my home state. how do you think t...

How some of the republicans can resonate when they talk about barack obama waging a war against religion. its fair to say many of them are waging a war against women. the problem is that women and they probably regret this, too, women were given the right to vote some time back. >> and we will remember. >> im going to have -- stay right there. karen, have the last word because this is a pro womens rights program. bob franken and karen finney, have a great weekend to both of you. up next -- how...

Voters in south carolina than non-minorities. if thats the way the numbers develop, that means that the doj has the right and has the duty to reject this proposed change to voting. >> kendall, we spoke with a justice department official from the bush administration who says its actually closer to 2%. boris, is this discrimination? should americans be required to have a photo i.d. to vote? >> it is absolutely not discrimination in any way whatsoever. by kendalls logic and those on the left, we sh...

One by 60 former cia officials. i want to read from the second letter. okay? it says, "we believe equally strongly that former government officials have the right to express their unclassified views on what they see as critical national security issues without fearing of being punished for doing so." so these two letters are a striking rebuke by 75 former officials who worked for republican and democratic administrations after trump revoked john brennans clearance. >> thats exactly right. so let...

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