i m not going to be putting 3.3 million kentuckians information where it could be up for grabs. data experts especially over the course of the past weekend as this request has come forward to secretaries has said this is something that should not be done. this on top of the congressional black caucus, who reiterated the same concerns we have about secretaries of state of moving us backward to the day where is poll taxes were required to go cast your vote and many can acknowledge yesterday was the anniversary of the passage of the civil rights act. we need to be moving forward with our elections. secretaries of state across the nation are doing that with our election administrative reforms. this is simply a government overreach, making government bigger, something donald trump told us he would not do, by creating a #fakecommission. secretary padilla, you are not guilty of man-splaining, of
i don t think so. and our participation with this commission would only legitimize the effort. in good conscious, i can t participate. i err on the side of protecting voting rights of voters across the country. we re not going to play their game. so, secretary allison, if i may very quickly. go ahead. i have to agree with secretary padilla. there s not enough bourbon in kentucky nor wine in california. i m proud that kentucky and california are leading the way. those are some good bourbons you have there, secretary, and great wines as well. thanks to both of you for being here and explaining all of this and getting the facts zblout have a great independence day. you too. we re following a lot of new this is morning. let s get right to it. he has beaten up on cable
over the fact that hillary clinton actually got 3 million more votes in the general election so he s come up with this crazy scheme. democratic governor terry mcauliffe you just heard from there of virginia and many other state officials, including some republicans have rebuffed a white house request for voter information. delbert hoseman, the republican secretary of state for mississippi said in a statement friday, they can go jump in the gulf of mexico and mississippi is a great state to launch from. trump complained about the lack of cooperation today, tweeting, what are they trying to hide. president trump appointed a special commission to investigate voter fraud after he made claims that voter fraud cost him the popular vote. for more on this, i m joined by alex padilla, the secretary of state for california. secretary padilla, thank you so much for joining me. hi, stephanie. thank you for the invitation. you know, i ll just turn around the president s tweet on you. are you
mayor, i m going to ask you the same question. americans knew all of what donald trump was going to do. do you think this is going to have an impact? donald trump seems to like the fact that he made promises and he gets to carry some of these out now. i think it will have an impact. people voted for donald trump for a number of reasons, one was the issue of jobs, infrastructure, the economy. i ve not seen him talk about jobs, the infrastructure or the economy much. what he s talked about are walls, what he s talked about are rounding up the undocumented. look, they voted in part for him to protest a broken immigration system, as secretary padilla said very well, why don t we fix the broken immigration system both democrats and republicans agree it s broken. let s fix it. this kind of stuff will only divide families, terrorize communities, disrupt our economy both here in los angeles, in
the votes on how many would change due to, you know, someone intentionally doing something wrong? is it zero? it 20? is it 1,000? do you have any sense of what that would be? it s frankly minuscule. and it s not just a wild guess here. you know, we have had a request for recounts in recent years whether it s a very closely contested congressional race or a state legislative race or maybe local city council or mayor s race. and whenever we get to that recount and going through the very thorough protocols, a couple, a handful, single-digit difference, maybe. single digits. so it won t make a dent in that sigmar gin that president trump lost by in california. but that s secondary. all right. secretary padilla, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. out front now, the director of the voting rights and election project at the nyu school of law, an expert. dana bash and mark preston. mira, let me start with you.