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Keep voters, particularly voters of color from the rolls. in georgia in particular, secretary of state kemp has purged over 1.4 million people from the voter rolls since 2012. over 670,000 people in 2017 alone. and a lawsuit was just filed yesterday finding that hundreds of thousands of people who were purged from the rolls on the grounds of not living in their locations, in fact, do live there. these are wrongful purges. voting officials like secretary kemp should be working to ensure that all eligible voters are able to cast a ballot rather than implementing measures to block them from the v...

Council. dhs representatives and others, to formalize a protocol that should be in place going forward. >> alex padilla, california secretary of state, i want to thank you. i want mika to respond. you hear the secretary of state here. he's saying on the one hand, there are particulars and they need to continue to work with the feds. but the feds in the senate are concerned about us getting hit again. >> that was a very interesting moment at the end of the press conference today where senator burr said they would do things differently than what dhs is doing. that they have run into this adminis...

Democrat voting officials that are pushing back, but republicans are rebaelrebelling. mississippi responded by saying they can mexico and mississippi is a great state to launch from. that's some serious shade. the trump administration had this response today. >> the commission is only asking for publicly available data in every state. so various state laws have various requirements on what can and cannot be released. this is something states release it political parties and campaigns on a regular basis. so the commission is not asking for anything that's not already out there in the public dom...

Million voters in swing states, including michigan. i was there in michigan, talked to the voting officials. they said that of the half million suspected double voters or double registered voters that kobach gave them, that they aggressively removed tens of thousands. in other words, i would say that we lost 50,000 voters. trump's margin was 10,700. and this happened in 30 republican-controlled states. that's one of kris kobach's tricks and the one trick that may have cost clinton the white house. so it's not that black voters are too lazy to come out to vote, it's that they are trying to vote...

The claims than the 17 intelligence agencies. >> i can go to the election one and talk about that. this is an issue within our politics. we should all be against illegal voting. we have a question when the illegal voting happens. we have convictions on the books. this commission intends to take voting officials which by the way voting is a state function to work with them to make sure that we have less voter fraud. when it comes to the question about russia's hacking in the election. look, nobody has found one example of any interaction or law breaking by the trump campaign. i love to hear tha...