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For context here, the last two governor's races in georgia were each decided by only about 200,000 votes out of millions of votes cast. in a state as big as georgia with a population as big as georgia, a 200,000 vote margin is nothing. these last couple of governor's races in georgia have been exceedingly close. 200,000 votes. last year alone brian kemp took 670,000 people off the voter rolls, last year alone. what's he afraid of? this year he is facing calls to resign as secretary of state ahead of the election 22 days from now because, among other things, he and his office have put 53,000 ne...

A person from georgia who is from athens, georgia where brian kemp and i are from, represent a southeastern part of georgia, he received and asked for a lot of african-american vote in congress. herein lies the problem is that now organizations, not the abrams campaign, are being penalized because they try to register new voters. you made a good point. 70% of the 53,000, 31,700 african americans were put on this list. what happens is brian kemp has a history of basically purging voters. in 2012 and now in 2018, 1.4 million voters have been purged off the list. in 2017, 670,000 voters were purg...

Applications to precisely match those in other campaigns. georgia's population is 32% black but the list of applications on hold is approximately 70% black. to both of you, as we get started with greg first, you've reported extensively on voter registration here and you found this number of 1.4 million voter registrations since 2012 with nearly 670,000 of them cancelled just last year in 2017 alone. so break down for me the magnitude of those numbers and the methodology that you used in finding the voter purge that followed. >> well, i threatened brian kemp with a federal lawsuit. we're going ...

Now to a growing firestorm in georgia over accusations of voter suppression. civil rights group are suing the secretary of state and brian kemp over a 2017 voter registration law that has more than 50,000 registrations currently on hold. republican political consultant singleton, we're going to get into this. it's pretty timely. since 2012, nearly 670,000 weren't in 2017 alone.

>> reporter: volunteer fire chief mike milligan has known clark for decades and even showed us a message he says clark texted him just two weeks ago. it's all going to burn just like you planned, it read. milligan has lived here for 50 years and says clark's home was one of the only ones in the community that didn't burn to the ground. >> i know going up there is hard for you. >> yeah, sure it is. >> why is it so hard? >> i know these people. i know the families. i know what has happened here. so, you know, when your friends lose their home, that has an effect on everybody. >> reporter: the ho...