location a massive criminal voter fraud, criminal activity that he was talking about. there isn t evidence for that. there is evidence web people die the first phone call families make is not to the elections board, why some registration roles aren t always accurate. it does not mean there was any fraud. elijah cummings reacted to the donald trump reaction on morning joe he launched his investigation into the overnight community. being minority he has less leverage but tried to launch an investigation into donald trump s claims. so they are launching a counter investigation. if you look at how many state houses and state legislatures are republican they are predominantly republican the conclusions of the secretaries of state around the country. they are and that s why this is a situation where the trump administration speaking on
period in one of the 94 current u.s. district courts were non citizens and goes on at length here with other examples. my point is clearly this is happening. that doesn t say those people actually voted. no but they shouldn t be on registration roles. there are dead people on registration roles. we know those are problem. they shouldn t be here, period. again there is no evidence three million people voted illegally. the answer is we don t know. but does it scare you that the president elect is listening to info wars? no. right. you listen to all kinds of people all over the place. ronald reagan got pin for having members of the john burch society. they believe 9/11 was an inside job. right of course. sandy hook is all crisis actors. people i interviewed, their followers terrorized the i m not going vouch for info wars.
reporter: in a word, no. trump transition officials were specifically asked if they had any evidence at all that they could put up to show the tweets were accurate, and they cited a 2014 study that had been debunked and a study from depugh that showed people on registration roles that had nothing to do with fraud. officials want to focus on what s coming next, the cabinet. there is no shortage of drama there, either. in the battle to be the nation s top diplomat, a decidedly undiplomatic fight being waged against president-elect trump in a harsh way. mitt romney still in the running as secretary of state despite a public campaign against him, but
the second big vulnerability is the registration roles. these do face the internet and we ve seen that they were scanned by the russians. we have not seen any effort so far to go change, you know, your address, if you went up, chris, and you were trying to register and you were trying to vote and they said, sorry, we had you under a different address and it s something to look for tomorrow. and the last thing to worry about is the reporting of the informal results to the networks, to the times and other news organizations because at some point that data has to come together. if anyone gets in that channel and can manipulate the data, you could have a variance between the informal early reports and what the real vote was. that s why we are all so paranoid about how we put out predictions. the protocols here at cnn are daunting, to say the least. carl, what an odd dynamic that
facts. the american people profoundly disagree with eric holder. 80% support voter i.d. laws to combat voter fraud. 63% of african-americans believe that voter fraud is a serious problem. he s going against the grain of what americans intuitively understand. we want to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. he abandoned efforts to help states clean up their vote were registration roles. we have states where 20% of the votessers are ineligible or dead. wisconsin has 3,000 dead votessers on their rolls. martha: 32 states that have voters rights bills on the books, this is a widespread effort to clean up the voter