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>> president obama in his state of the union address this year announcing the kind of thing that sounds good, but you think will be one of those things in the state of the union that never actually happens. turns out it's happening. joining us now for his first interview about the new presidential voting commission is one of the two men tapped by president obama to lead it. the president's top campaign lawyer, former white house counsel, bob bauer. mr. bauer, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> there have been a million things over the years that i wanted to ask you. tonig...

Mr. bauer wrote. he added that this was not an isolated matter, citing the wisconsin activities of true the vote, an organization close to the republican party and the romney campaign. that would be mr. bob bauer making that complaint, the attorney on the left there, who is now co-chairing the president's improved voting commission with the romney lawyer on the right, whose campaign was trying to stop early voting in ohio, and that gave its poll watchers wrong information about how to keep people from voting who should have been allowed to vote. awkward match, right? putting the guy whose part...

Enforce the law raise serious concerns under wisconsin law, mr. bauer wrote. he added that this was not an isolated matter, citing the wisconsin activities of true the vote, an organization close to the republican party and the romney campaign. that would be mr. bob bauer making that complaint, the attorney on the left there, who is now co-chairing the president's improved voting commission with the romney lawyer on the right, whose campaign was trying to stop early voting in ohio, and that gave its poll watchers wrong information about how to keep people from voting who should have been allow...

You call him that day? what do you call them? investors in military. that these people that, 10-1, and hefrs out of office, after 25 years as a congressman. so we never got to them. >> the gerrymandering. one of the things you were very involved with all of us last year. the gerrymandering, the voting rights. that's how they manipulated people out of office. >> but all the money that supports these systems that promote unfair and unequal access to all the corporations and special interests that have a lot to do with controlling our interest. it's in the core, but everything, when we talk about...

Welcome back to this "american morning" on this monday. live look at chicago today. don't let the calm fool you. something is abrewing. there's a storm on the way that's going to wreak havoc in so many places across the country, including chicago. could be some of the worst in quite some time. rob marciano will be along with the latest on the forecast. you definitely need to see. i'm t.j. holmes. >> i'm kate baldoun. here are this morning's top stories we want to tell you about. updating you on the crisis in egypt right now. new protests in cairo this morning, looting and chaos has paralyzed t...