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The u.s. election in which they interfered. and now were learning that there are boxes on that check list we didnt even know existed, stuff we didnt even guess they might want. it looks like those boxes are et going ticked, too. republicans in congress are moving ahead to kill the election assistance commission. whats the election assistance commission? its the agency that works to ensure our voting process is secure. all right. who needs that? definitely time to close that agency down. our elec...

List we didnt even know existed, stuff we didnt even guess they might want. it looks like those boxes are getting ticked, too. republicans in congress are moving ahead to kill the election assistance commission. whats the election assistance commission? its the agency that works to ensure our voting process is secure. all right. who needs that? definitely time to close that agency down. our elections are obviously totally secure. who knew that less election security could even be a box on the ru...

Even from what weve heard so far, i dont see any evidence of that. >> opposition research from a foreign government. >> i think it would be. i think it would be. i dont think theres any evidence that they did. i do think it would be, sure. i think quite frankly, its probably against the law, michael, and in addition to being inappropriate. >> all right. there you go. theres one federal agency dedicated solely so securing the voting process, and it could soon be shut down. republicans are pushing...

Of false matches. i think thats what advocates who worry about people being disenfranchised worry about these voting roles, when you put everybody towing, you will get a lot of matches. it doesnt mean you will get voter fraud, many campaign staff were registered in multiple states. it means you will have names that match. if you have jane tim and jane tim mondays, i might come up as a match. our birthdays are the same. you know how many john smiths names are on voter roles? quite a few. you worr...

Ash carter. how would you, james, characterize the notion of working with the russians on a cyberhacking unit? >> i federal funding an job -- i think from an optics speck on the periphery to forge an alliance thats in name only, i can understand that. to actually let them into the mechanisms of our cybersecurity, i just cant see that happening. the only thing thats fortified me in this case of meddling in the election system, the only thing is that no one in the intelligence community to date ha...

Rearview mirror. >> eric: i spent the majority of today trying to figure out why they are making this portion i can only think that theyre looking forward to 2018 and certainly 2020 for reelection. remember, this could be solved if we push through a voter i.d. law. >> eboni: we can say its not going to happen. >> eric: in the absence of that, all they are requesting is publicly available information. >> eboni: social security numbers and things like that? >> eric: okay, you want to guarantee the...

In this country. there are instances of voter fraud certainly but not any evidence that theres a big problem and on the other hand, they are sort of downplaying the idea that there was russian meddling in had the election, even though our intelligence agencies have confirmed that, and so you have the voter getting whipsawed between these competing narratives about whether they can trust the voting process and not getting the answers they want out of this, and yes there is a possibility that this...

West wing of the white house or not? >> shannon: so many different things they could do. they could say were going to vote the lift the ban. the lower courts that have said the ban cant go into effect or do something different which is actually hear the entire case on the merits. normally that would happen in the fall. nothing has been normal about this travel ban case. well see what happens. we would expect justice gorsuch will be part of the voting process. they havent given us word this morni...

Something like that, on that at the time, and he said, russia probably interfered but maybe some other countries did as well. >> he said i think it was russia but i think we also get hacked by other countries. >> there you go. thank you. >> does he stand by that? is he concerned about that, sean? >> of course. hes concerned about any country or any actor that wants to interfere in our elections. i confirmed that he stands by that but hes taken two, i think, very large steps. one is cyber securit...

23rd. nothing new here. were just hearing it anew. >> david frum, 21 states they have evidence of an attempt to interfere with voting. could be with voting registration. could be with other elements of the voting process. >> well, so far it sounds like those attempts were reasonably ine fectual and defeated by the slovenliness of the voting system. if there was a more modern voting system, the attacks might have been more successful. there are a lot of questions about the obama administration th...