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Overseeing election processes, which are typically held at the state level and of course there is also the politics of all this. you know, some democrats here trying to score some political points, but there are questions overall about this election oversight commission and whether or not it should have been created in the first place. again, as you pointed out, this started all because of the president's claim of millions of people voting illegally without proper documentation in the 2016 election, a claim for which, of course, there is no evidence. >> nothing. right. jeremy, thank you very m...

>> everyone can have two thoughts in their head at one time. you could not have included with the russians and the russians could have hacked into the election. everyone could accept that if that's where the facts bear out. looking forward on this, one of the big concerns from jeh johnson is what happens in 2018? this came down to jeh johnson said he came up against resistance from the state and local level when they tried to reach out and say, we have a problem and it's coming your way. there was this big sensitivity to the intrusion of the federal government on their election processes. you ...

Go. >> okay, kelly o'donnell, eli sto stocke stockels, thank you so much. michael, what we know from jay johns-- jeh johnson's testi is they targeted election processes in 21 states, break down the significance of that. >> we don't know what that mean by targeted. it could mean getting into them to access data, it could mean getting in to exfiltrate data. it could mean changing voter registration data, so when they go to vote they're not on the list, or the record says they have moved.

To hundreds of thousands of african-americans and latinos, but it was intended to have that effect, and there's voluminous evidence in the record that establishes this. the department of justice has in the past made eloquent and forcement arguments in support of an intent finding and we were before the judge revisiting this issue on tuesday when the day before we got notice from the department of justice that it sought to withdraw its claim. now this is an enormous about-face. it is a 180-degree turn in the prosecution of an incredibly important and well-supported claim of intentional racial d...

Knowing the who, when, what and everything that transpired deserves an independent commission. i know my colleagues are going to work at it really hard. i don't question their commitment but there's so many different elements. foreign relations where i sit on could be looking at russian foreign policy vis-a-vis russia and the effects that it has in this regard. you could be looking at it from an intelligence angle, from a judiciary angle as it relates to the election processes in this country and how russia tried to affect it. instead of having disparate elements, a commission that's committed...