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Order, his homeland security adviser is making sure that we take steps to protect our election system and all of our other cyber defenses. secondly, he instituted an election commission that is making sure that we look at all of how we're voting and make sure that we maintain integrity in all of our voting processes. >> so the press secretary was asked, what has that commission done? doesn't look like it's done a whole lot. spicer said that next week the commission will be sending out a letter to state, county election officials asking for information back on what they saw, shep. >> shepard: t...

Information that is fact checked and just making assumptions with no data is helpful to know one. we shouldn't be trying to create some concern around whether or not our voting processes are strong. >> let me get you on two other things that are much more pressing. we have russians behind the hacks during the election, we have the president of the united states saying he didn't believe it. now there's an executive order he may be signing and preparing to remove sanctions and has a big call with the russian president tomorrow. where is your head on this? >> well, i'm ready for rex tillerson to ...

Process that the -- of the united states set up many, many years ago. so that all of the power didn't get concentrated in the presidency. so we've heard a lot of talk. we've heard a lot of executive orders, we haven't seen what is really going to happen. what congress is going to do with their share of this power which is to appropriate the money. >> and senator hutcheson, this issue trump has been raising in sean spooiser addressed in his briefing yesterday. trump believing apparent lay it millions of votes were cast illegally in the election last year no evidence, no proof. there's nothing t...

Springing up of more of these voter i.d. laws, starting with the home of the republican party in wisconsin? john? >> it's a big deal, chris. it's a very big deal. you mentioned the 2012 election. if you go back just a little way to 2004 and 2000, wisconsin had presidential race that were so close that 10, 12,000 votes were deciding that john kerry won the state in '04 and al gore won in 200. this is a very closely divided state. if you begin to mangle the voting processes, if you make it harder to mobilize voters before an election, you definitely have an impact. this voter i.d. law has a top ...

Democracy, remember, they've been trying to cut days and here and there since 2008 presidential election. there's a rich history of state sort of secretaries being involved in the voting processes. remember from 2000 secretary of state florida katharine harris is one who ratified george bush's election as president and that was contested. then brought to the supreme court. ken blackwell, 2004, secretary of state in ohio, was involved in some issues and questions about vote in ohio 2004. a key position which is why state senator nina turner has so much support for this position. the key positio...