would be possible. he said he wants to introduce a resolution next week and have them vote on it after the midterm elections. as you know, that would be essentially setting themselves up for a fight. they re dealing with funding for the border wall at thas point and trying to get this passed in the lame duck period after the midterm elections would be tough, jim. the president also continuing to insist there s a massive voter fraud problem in the country. this after, of course, the president soon after his election started a commission, the commission didn t find much. so he s back to that same message. they didn t find nothing. they actually disbanded after they were widely criticized for those efforts because, of course, this seems to be something the president is using as a message when actually voter fraud is not something that s found. the president had to say this about how he thinks there are people voting illegally. they want to be able to vote. the illegals, by the way,
not only the middle easterners mixing in, that s a lie. but this notion that the democrats have anything to do with the caravan. they don t, the notion that they re coming, these migrants are coming to commit voter fraud. we don t have a voter fraud problem in this country. we have a voter suppression problem. republicans have searched and searched. the bush administration did a five year study of voter fraud, they found 120 cases of voter fraud, they were likely felons. it s an issue of letting people into this country who did not come here the right or appropriate way. when you have someone who s able to break into your country. there s potential for that person to have voter fraud. there s been no proof. they re advocating for immigrants to be able to register to vote. we ve seen where they ve been able to register to vote. the numbers are tiny. you don t think it s going to
people don t know about them, and they don t understand the significance of them on their own, and as you said, the cumulative significance about them in recent years, people have started to learn a lot more about gerrymandering and the role that plays in diluting votes and the role that stricter voter i.d. laws play in suppressing turnout overall particularly among poor people, young people, and people of color. i think people are learning more about it, and i think people are beginning to become outraged about it. i think it takes more education and more people out there talking about this. there are those who contend that we have a voter fraud problem in this country. where do you fall on that spectrum? do we have a legitimate voter fraud problem in this country or no? there is no evidence of widespread fraud or really any
what the court said is that there is a discriminatory result, particularly on african-americans and hispanics because of the types of cards that are allowed to be used and the types that can t be used. i would also say one other thing, heather, it s not some kind of widespread voter fraud problem in texas. there have only been two cases that have been prosecuted successfully where people have voted and it s turned out to be fraudulent in texas. so it s not even clear what problem they re trying to solve, if they re trying to make one. heather: it s probably heading to the supreme court. thank you both for joining us, we ll see what happens next. thank you. jon: a fox news alert and another terrible boating accident in brazil, this for the second day in a row. if you re looking at yesterday s accident in which a boat carrying 70 people sank on a
the president has said that voter fraud is a big problem that you don t want to have your state hand over the kinds of information this commission wants. do you believe there is a voter fraud problem that does need to be tackled by the white house? i think my colleagues across the aisle and i agree that there is no massive widespread voter fraud that occurred in the 2016 election. especially none that exists to the limits that the president has repeatedly suggested, whether it s 140 characters at a time or on on-camera appearances. three to five million folks did not vote illegally in this 2016 election. we have secretaries of state that stand up for the results of their respective states. they were free of voter fraud. we don t need a commission that was set up to try to create and find evidence that simply doesn t exist that study after study shows, is just simply not there. we do need to have a discussion about how we move our elections forward. we did that in 2014. when we had