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Not have an interest in prosecuting hillary clinton for her e-mail. she comes along after conceding the election and says shes going to join in the recount effort. he says this is a classless move. >> he used tweeter out of -- >> yes, and he says bring it on. i mean, his position is bring on the recount, i have some states i might want recounted. the ones that he lost. >> i just want to point -- >> go ahead. >> i want to point out, though, that a study said 24 million people that are registered ...

Million are registered in more than one state. so there is some fact that there are voting problems and as kayleigh pointed out, over 400 have been documented. i think in every election there are some, but i do think the irritation factor, the fact he has taken the high road, hillary clinton conceded, barack obama is saying the elections over with, lets move on with the transition, and yet hillary clinton may be using jill stein as a front to just get in there and -- >> paul, to the congressmans...

>> chuck, the misconception here is that florida is the sunshine retirement state. there are more millennials than retirees and they are black and latino and they are connected. the demographics have definitely shifted. 24% of hispanics who voted early were voting for the first time. in florida, two million registered hispanic voters, 16% of the electorate this year. the latino and millennial votes are deciding factors here. as a miami expert, you know wherever florida goes, so goes the election...

Re-election and doesnt have to worry about that, should the president be more forceful with amount of time he has left? >> i think this is something that is important to him and something he brought up in the state of the union address and brought up on the night of his election the voting problems we saw in the last cycle. i think its high up on his agenda and he talks a lot about with the attorney general. as far as the section two cases goes, i think it will be, you know, extremely interestin...

Would suggest. remember what the supreme court struck down was the idea that these states that were judged to have had voting problems in 1965 should continue to have to submit their changes to voting before theyre done. the president when he was giving a comment on on this, a response to this in africa, talked about how there could be remedies that are not based on jurisdiction, meaning not necessarily the same southern states that were in the voting rights act to begin with. this is the kind o...

From last months state of the union address that i thought probably would not come to pass because it involved republican participation, i thought thats never going to happen. turns out, its going to happen. so tonight im announcing a nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in america. and it definitely needs improvement. im asking two longtime experts in the field, who, bring the way, recently served as the top attorneys for my campaign and for governor romneys campaign, to lead...

For my campaign and for governor romneys campaign to lead it. we can fix this. and we will. the american people demand it and so does our democracy. >> the idea of a presidential commission to fix voting problems in this country. you know, as of this week we now know that this idea, which is one of those things i thought you said in the state of the union and poof, goes away forever, turns it has not been relegated to big speech ideas. it is not an orient express ayla ronald regan. >> the republ...

Action. and unfortunately, i dont think we have seen the last of it. what were watching in california now is just another example of the destructive power of guns in this country. thats not going away unless we tackle this on a lot of different fronts. >> thank you. for your time, sir, i appreciate it. next up, the fight for voting rights. 102-year-old woman becoming a symbol of voting problems. a woman who waited e three hours and got a special mention by the president last night. the reveren...

Were working for the county clerks office. >> republicans were forced to break ties with a voter registration firm because the group was breaking the law. then there was the current ohio secretary of state, john huestead, who tried to change the rules for early voting in his state. that didnt work. in other states the changes to early voting rules caused massive voting problems. >> the lines for early voting are long, and for many time-consuming. you were in line how long? >> for an hour and 55 ...

Support of romney, actually. >> and whos paying you for this? >> oh, the -- let me see. were working for the county clerks office. >> republicans were forced to break ties with a voter registration firm because the group was breaking the law. then there was the current ohio secretary of state, john huestead, who tried to change the rules for early voting in his state. that didnt work. in other rules the changes to early voting rules caused massive voting problems. >> the lines for early voting a...