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Commission, he chose kansas secretary of state kris kobach, who calls the state's complaints complete nonsense. >> we're looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, registration fraud, voter intimidation, suppression. >> reporter: kobach has zealously hunted vote cheaters back home for month, yet he's found less than a dozen provable cases out of a million and a half registered voters. he was fined by a federal judge in kansas just last week for his conduct in a lawsuit involving voting rights. connecticut's take? given secretary kobach's history, we find it very difficult to...

Election irregularities, voter intimidation, fraud, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of the various elections we have in each of the states. another point it's a bipartisan commission. the first half of the membership formation announcement last week but there will be more members announced, so it's a bipartisan group of people, all experts in their field and we'll look at the facts and go where the facts lead us. >> and what would be the goal, seeing how vote something largely done on a state by state basis, what would this panel be able to control? >> great question. there's r...

Some of the laws you favored in your state which have gone through some strict legal pushback where you're keeping certain segments of the population from exercising their franchise to vote, as freely as they should. >> we should be focusing on that, too, in addition to focusing on voter fraud, and election irregularities, the commission will also be looking at the claims of voter suppression, claims that certain laws depress turnout, things like that. we'll be looking at evidence on all of these questions and putting the facts on the table and following wherever the facts lead. >> you come in...

Border wall plan, good day for, kris kobach. a lot of people remember the president's 3 to 5 million votes illegal in this country. can you back that claim up on the verge of what this committee is about to do? >> well, the committee's charge is not to back that came up to prove it or disprove it. we'll look at the 2016 election and at other elections in the past decade or so. the objective is to look at all forms of voter fraud and election irregularities and show the numbers and see what they are and let people draw their own conclusions. it will be interesting. we've never had a national-le...

Power while, many experts say, effectively putting an end to democracy in turkey? america, after all, likes to think of itself as a defender of democracy, at least in word if not always in deed. and even before the referendum, erdogan had looked increasingly like an ought oh craft. his government und a seeming perpetual state of emergency, his record of throwing dissiden and journalists in jail, leaving much of the world aghast. the u.s. state department sure seemed concerned, releasing a statement noting election irregularities and urging the government of turkey to protect the fundamental ri...