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CNNW Cuomo Primetime August 10, 2018 01:00:00

Well, thank you. And thank you for mentioning the first responders. The community has been fantastic. First responders are real heroes and heroines. Thank you, anderson. We wish you the best. The news continues right now. I want to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. The gop primary for governor in kansas should have been a hohum race, that is until President Trump got involved and went against the gop incumbent in favor of kris kobach. Yes, that State Official who helped trump with that fugazi voter fraud panel. Well, the race is now a hotbed of controversy. It is too close to call. Then kobach declared victory. Then his lead was cut, and an official is blaming the Secretary Of State for getting it wrong in favor of kobach. The Secretary Of State is kris kobach, and his office would oversee what seems like a certain recount. So everyone is talking about what he will do. We are talking to kris kobach. Hell be live in a moment. Also the death toll from Hurricane Maria in puerto rico just soared. It is now more than 20 times what the government told us it was in december. Why is the truth only coming out now, almost a year after the storm . And why Isnt The President saying anything about it . Those are americans down there. Also a State Of Emergency declared In Charlottesville ahead of the First Anniversary of that deadly Unite The Right rally. How are we doing 12 months later . D. L. Hugly joins us with a message he says you wont like, but you need to hear. Its my birthday. Not bad for 61. Lets get after it. All right. So were talking about an election that pits a trump loyalist against the sitting governor, the same party, and the margin is razorthin. 91 votes currently separate the two. So either way youre looking at a recount under the law there very likely. But theres one thing. One of the candidates will be in charge of that recount. That candidate is kansass current Secretary Of State kris kobach as i told you in the open. His opponent is the sitting governor. He is asking kobach to recuse himself. Will secretary kobach accede to the governors wish . We have him right now. Welcome to prime time. Great to be with you. So the obvious question is are you going to recuse yourself . Yeah, i actually i think i gave him the idea. I said to the press a day or two ago, i said theres really no point in doing it because the Secretary Of State doesnt actually have any role in the counting of provisional ballots or in any recount. Its purely sort of a titular not about whether theres a law that says you have to step away or whether or not you have direct control over it. Its the semblance of impropriety. You know, its what seems fishy, and thats really the standard that Public Officials should adhere to. Weve made crimes like the new bar for Public Officials. It should be a little better than that. But the reason i ask you about whether or not your offices role is the same in the main count versus the recount is because shelly harms, the Thomas County clerk, she says that they counted 522 votes for your opponent and that she showed a scan the kansas city start the form that showed 522 votes. Yet somehow when it got to your office, it became communicated as 422 votes. That smells bad, does it not, mr. Secretary of state . Well, if you put it in context, it smells normal. Every year there are at least a dozen clerical errors that happen in the transcribing. So we do this the oldschool way, and most states do it the your favor versus your opponent, it smells bad. Thats why you shouldnt be in the position for the recount. It just seems like a nobrainer to me. I dont know why you had to wait for colyer to ask you to recuse yourself. It just seems like a nobrainer. Well, you should think through this, chris, because the majority of states have elected secretaries of state, and they oversee the elections in which they are running. So by your logic, you should never have elected secretaries of state because they are overseeing their own elections. And i understand that you have to add a fact, though. The fact is this race is razorthin in its margin and its going to go to a recount. You know, it doesnt matter if you wind up winning by eight, nine points. You got to factor that into the context also. Ity dont think that its an endemic problem where all secretaries of Sate Microsoftta sanctioned when Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Them since the year 2000. These are convictions, which are the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Most dont result in convictions. On top of that, looking at 21 states saw 8,100 cases of Double Voting. If you extrapolate to all 50 states, it increases exponentially. You cant. You can do the same analysis. No, because its not math. Every states different. You say okay. Lets [ Overlapping Voices ] i just want to make one point for clarity for the audience. You were presented with evidence. You didnt find evidence. You didnt do investigating. And we looked into your numbers obviously in preparing for the interview when it came in. The 1,000 convictions, first of all, you want to talk about context. You had a billion votes since 2000. So youre talking about 1,000 convictions. When you look inside that ub in, i believe you got it from the Heritage Foundation. That report includes misconduct by Election Officials and other insiders. Its not about voters who are not legal or Double Voting. Thats about this whole thing, every type of basket of conviction you could get within the voting system. Thats not what you were supposed to be looking for. The total of the thousand or so convictions, yes, it includes some misconduct, but that is a tiny, tiny slice of it. But its just from the heritage founddatiation. The panel Didnt Investigate and find. You were given this by the Heritage Foundation. These are facts the commission was assembling. Its fact as far as the Heritage Foundation is included. And the 8,400 instances come from the lets talk about that. Go ahead. What the commission would have done if we had continued and not been hobbled by the lawsuits is you would take the same type of analysis that the Government Accountability institute did and you would apply that to all 50 states. Youd do the same analysis for 50 states that they had done for 21 and then you get a picture of the total number of Double Voting, which by the way is a huge crime. 8,400 cases in those alone. My office has the authority to prosecute voter fraud. Weve prosecuted about 13 cases of voter fraud in the last 2 1 2 years or so, three years now. And in that time, we have 11 cases of Double Voting and two cases of aliens registering and or voting. Kris, the president put you up to this commission to prove his theory that millions of people voted illegally in his election. Actually, that was not the there was never any proof of that, and you know of it. You might be governor of a state soon. Shouldnt you own Something Like that so it doesnt just stay as a cloud over your head forever . Okay. First of all, the commission was never charged with investigating how many votes were Cast Illegitimately in the president ial election. It was looking more broadly at the issue of voter fraud. And secondly, the total number of votes cast illegally in the 2016 election is certainly a very large number. One of the things the commission might have we dont know what it is. Can i continue . Please. Go ahead. One of the things we might have looked at is the number of noncitizens who vote in the elections. That is a very substantial number. Now, in states like kansas, the number may be in the hundreds or thousands voting in any given election. But in a state like california, the number is going to be much, of larger. In a state like texas, much, much larger. Thats a guess. So those are some of the things well, the commission would have actually done the research and used Government Resources to actually look and get some actual data on the table. I mean it surprises me that people on the left are always simply saying nothing to see here, nothing to see here, dont look at voter fraud you keep bashing it as the left was coming after you. Meanwhile an email comes out that one of the people on your staff was looking for someone to help out who was conservative and christian. It says right in the email. So dont make it like it was some fools errand on the political side, like the left was coming after you. Your own commission was looking for someone pretty confident that hes conservative and christian too because thats what you want in a bean counter, right . That wasnt a conservative and a christian. That Wasnt Commission that email wasnt a staff of the commission. Who was she . But the point is we were talking about the larger context. Who was she . The larger context is people on the left i cant even remember the persons name who said that. I do. The larger context is that the people on the left people who dont think voter fraud is a problem. Lets use those terms. People who dont think 2 Million People voted in california and there was no need for tax dollars to go out there and try to prove we have a problem with voter fraud and we dont. That was the supposition. Listen, Secretary Of State, i dont want to go down a rabbit hole. A thousand is not a lot . I dont know what the number is. I could pull out a number. 15,000, 18,000. [ Overlapping Voices ] you dont have any proof of it. You got presented with studies by these are convictions. Im talking about a thousand convictions. Im asking you, is a thousand a big number . Obviously its going to be about the context. Id want to know the cases. These are documented cases, documented in the court records. Right, and they also include all types of election workers, not the kind of stuff that you said you were going to find, listen, Secretary Of State, youre always welcome on this show to talk about what you find, and i want to talk to you when we find out what happens with your election as well. Youre always welcome to make the case. All right. Thank you. Good luck to you. All right. Devin nunes in the news. Its no question that hes been a loyalist for the president , but the chairman devin nunes is the chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee. He was just caught on tape actually trying to undermine the mueller investigation. Remember what his job is, his oversight job. Youre going to hear the recording ahead. Here comes the rain. Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. If you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody has ever seen anything like this, what is your what is your death count as of this moment, 17 in. 16 people certified. 16 people certified. 16 people versus in the thousands. So in the thousands would be a disaster. Different order of magnitude. So what is he going to say now . Well get to that in a second. 16 never made sense. Neither did 64, not if you were on the ground like we were and so many at cnn and other outlets. So much of puerto rico was shut down. Medical care was compromised. Medications were in short supply. Basic water was spotty. There was power almost nowhere. So we were skeptical, and we pressed and tested power. And trump and his folk fought back calling it well, you know what they called it. Fake news. Despite the Fake News Media in conjunction with the democrats, an amazing job is being done in puerto rico, trump tweeted. The Fake News Networks are working overtime in puerto rico doing their best to take the spirit away from our soldiers and first rs, responders. Shame. Shame is right. Shame on him, especially as reporting and studies started to show what we all suspected. The death toll was way, way wrong and underreported. In november, cnn surveyed 112 Funeral Homes finding that Funeral Home Directors and staff had identified at least 499 deaths. Then what happens . In may, you get a team from Harvard University and researchers. They published a study, and they said in the New England Journal Of Medicine that their as a matter of fact was about 4,645 deaths. Now we know the current estimate from the government, and it is over 1,400. And as for the journalists who weathered the storm there and spent weeks covering what was obviously an inadequate government response, called out by trump as liars, then what do we learn . Well, fema puts out a statement just now in july. It says it was understaffed and underprepared for last years hurricane season. The agency said, quote, Fema Leadership acknowledged that the agency could have better anticipated the severity of hurricanes irma and maria, and that they would cause longterm, significant damage to the territorys infrastructure. So now we know. Its not 16. It was never 16 or 64. Its 20 times that. So what does the president say now . Nothing. He doubled down when he thought he was right. But now he wont man up now that we know he was wrong. He wont even show respect to americans who lost loved ones. Instead, he had a White House Deputy put out this statement. Theres only one official count, and the actual counting of disasterrelated fatalities is the local responsibility of puerto rico. The whole of government remains focused on ongoing recovery and preparedness for the current hurricane season. You know what that sounds like . Fake news. Information thats not complete, and its done to distort and to deceive. And theyre not going to come on here and defend their position. Why . Because im too tough . Shame on them. Its not about tough. Its about truth. Trump owes the truth. The truth he denied to the people who paid with their lives and those who were left in horrible conditions in puerto rico until today. We will not let it go. We will not forget. All right. Our next story. You hear what trump pal devin nunes admitted to on tape, right . He is the chairman of the house intel committee, who seems to think oversight means something very unusual and potentially dangerous. 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Oh, what a relief it is so the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, devin nunes, confirmed what many have suspected to be true that his real mission is to protect the president from the mueller investigation. Dont listen to me. Listen to him. If sessions wont unrecuse and Mueller Wont Clear the president , were the only ones, which is really the danger. Thats why i keep thank you for saying it by the way. I mean we have to keep all these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. You hear the forks and knives. I wonder why the people werent saying to imhad, what did you just say . Anyway, is that what hes supposed to be doing as an Oversight Position . Oversight over the executive branch . This is the making of a great debate. We have nina turner and mike shie shields. Nina turner, do you believe that what devin nunes was saying there is worthy of censure . Well, chris, its certainly no surprise what he was saying. Nunes has had the propensity for telling the truth about how he really feels about this president from, you know, giving him information when they were doing the russia probe right in his own committee. You know, he served on the transition team, and he also advised the trump campaign. So im not surprised at all that we caught the congressman telling the truth about how he feels it is his duty and the duty of all members of the gop to protect the president versus keeping his Oath Of Office and standing up for the American People and, as Congressman Lieu said, looking to see where the information takes us. Right. Im surprised. Mike, im surprised, not about the we need to keep the maj

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