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In deploying what are suppression tactics on the black community and they are fear mongering on the right. a lot of this happened on the social networks. these reports are saying that the ira actively tried to recruit assets to do things that they want them to do. particularly they say within the african-american community. there is a christian facebook group and if you have a sex addiction, you can call this line. that would open people up to some sort of black mail. classic espionage. very scary about what happened in 2016 and what's ongoing and there is no sign of that stopping. that doesn'...

For me for any number of reasons. but i will tell you, i've got confidence that we really performed well within communities of color, within younger communities, even within white communities around the state of florida. on the suppression piece, our suppression, you know, what happened here in the state of florida is different than what happened in georgia. in the state of florida, the suppression tactics are enshrined in law. the rules are all diverse and different than how elections are done. the fact that in my state you could have a signature rejected by someone who is not trained to inte...

The suppression tactics we see. >> mike pence is from indiana, let's talk about that. when this happened, all of us are like it's our old friend racism from jim crow. we've been here and done this. that's the great work that latosha is doing -- georgia is a really important state. it's not just georgia. since 201024 states have made voting more challenging. in different states. 13 of those states have enacted stricter voter id laws. we know who that impacts, that impacts people of color, and poor people. and we know why republicans don't want those people voting, because they tend to vote demo...

And all of these suppression tactics that we are seeing leading up to the upcoming midterms shows that elected officials across the country are trying to recreate the electorate, and hand pick those who are entitled to exercise the fundamental right to vote, and the people target and exclued with surgical precision through myriad of devices are african-americans and latinos and native americans and asians, and we are trying to white out the electorate in a way that is extraordinarily disturbing. we have challenged it in georgia and in texas, and in the texas photo i.d. challenge where we repre...

That the votes for hillary clinton were less than they needed to be for her to win. so why is that? it's because for a variety of reasons. but one allegation made today is because there was a targeted approach towards the suppression of certain minority votes, which would probably have likely gone to hillary clinton. >> shawn, our colleague shaujos green previously reported they used suppression tactics, such as facebook ads to remind black voters comments hillary clinton made. >> if you think about what chris wily said today he said cambridge analytica was eager to sew discontent and take adv...