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But you kept saying, well, that's what he believes. >> that's what he believes. howard: you didn't want to embrace it yourself. >> that's not my job. my job is to speak on behalf of the president. when i asked about this issue, he said that's what i believe. my idea is to be his spokesperson, to articulate his ideas, his successes, and in this case, what he believes. howard: if the president points to a pew study as buttressing the case that there was a lot of illegal voting. >> as one example. howard: okay. the author of the study tells journalists, no, we didn't say that, isn't it fair for a...

Evidence what i do think president trump is right about, there was the peer reviewed study by mr. reichman that said 100,000 illegal immigrants have voted based on congressional numbers and percentages he took based on congressional data also in line with harvard. so there is a study that suggests we might have thousands or hundreds of thousands, and that should be looked in into but i don't know if it's millions. >> the things we know that president trump has named by name, the pew study, which there are questions about if he understands exactly what the study said, a story from bernhard lang...

>> it is actually a fact and i now can tell you that this is the pew study. the number of mexicans who are coming to the country have declined dramatically. >> the people are still coming. >> the americans are am can be through mexico. even if you look at beyond the immigration issue, the obama administration said there is $193 billion of loss through the drug trafficking that comes in. >> hold on. >> that's not about the drug trafficking. no, no, no. that's the narrative about it. >> there is no problem in terms of the flow of people that this wall is required to deal with. >> there is also a...

He wants to investigate the voter rolls in states he lost. secretary padilla doesn't think it will change it, maybe a handful of votes. in this pew study which everybody is citing, one thing it says is 1.8 million dead people registered to vote, people registered in multiple states. how big a mess are the voter rolls? >> there's no dispute our voter rolls need to be cleaned up. this is something the brennan center has been talking about for a decade. people die every day, move every day, change their name because they got married or other reasons. i think the important thing to remember is we ...

Media, always telling people elections are being stolen an what do we need to cdo about it. voter i.d. who does that keep from voting? usually democrats. i don't think it's has scattered a shot as it seems. part is probably his ego and part is agenda driven. >> it's a worthy cause. according to the pew study, 1 in 8 people on the voting rolls are dead or -- can you cup that will with a system where you don't have to show i.d. when you vote and we've had nearly 700 convictions of voter fraud. this is a problem but it wasn't part of donald trump's platform and to make it your rallying cry when w...