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Why aren't we voting to end the shutdown? >> i think it takes two sides. right now there's a lot of federal workers and native americans that are held political hostage because we're at an impasse. i don't think the president is asking nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to do anything they haven't do and that's to vote on border security. we're running a national risk and doing it at the sole cost of people who are innocent in this fight. >> and these are people you're especially concerned about and the impasse is over this billion dollar funding for a border wall. >> well, a border wall -- >> isn...

Challenges around voting come with disenfranchisement, what the secretary was talking about. there are various ways that they're denying access to the polls, whether that's through voter i.d., whether that's through making voter registration more difficult, whether that's through gerrymandering or different practices. there are a lot of things that need to address that enhance access to the polls for all elections. we should change the time that we vote. we vote on tuesdays. why aren't we voting on weekends. >> i have to let that be the last word i'm afraid but i appreciate it. always good to ...

Identification. fact check, not true. there were republican states as well. with me, allison lundergren grimes. james peterson is professor at lehigh university. host of the remix. whyy. secretary grimes, let me start with you. trump is blaming officials like you for the failure of the voting system and said they were forced to do it in spite of, quote, substantial evidence of voter fraud. what's your response? >> well, it's a pleasure to join you this evening. it's simply not true. this was a commission that was based on a lie, as you just reported, bogged down by over 15 lawsuits, an over re...

Those were protesters at one of the few meetings. after the election the president insisted he only lost the popular vote because millions of people voted illegally so he formed a commission >> every time voter fraud occurs it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen and undermines democracy. can't let that happen. any illegal or fraudulent voting whether by noncitizens or deceased or voter suppression must be stopped. >> but there was never any evidence of his claims. the commission only met twice and was bogged down by lawsuits as well as being under investigation by a government watchdog a...