voter id and how we vote in america makes sense. we don t want people to cheat in voting and that s what we are trying to establish and democrats trying to go back the loose systems to allow for cheating and when you allow cheating, they don t believe in results. if one side loses, you want them to be confident that they lost and they go back home and they work the next election to win, but you don t want people to have a lack of confidence and voter rules in place allow for that confidence in elections. alicia: robert, i want to give you a few seconds to respond because i m running out of time. go ahead. one, the voter suppression bills are not voter id bills, it s about stripping the constitutional power away from judges and critical race theory, i would love to see conservatives show me a curriculum, show me a syllabus or book that backs up anything that they are saying is all fantasy. show me some alicia: i know, we toweled
have to pass hr-1 and we have to pass hr-4. hr-4 probably more so. we have to keep them honest. in addition to these racist voter id bills that greg abbot is trying to push, we ve seen it in georgia, same thing. you are going to see the most discriminatory, the most anti-black redistricting that this country, perhaps, has ever seen if we do not get those two pieces of legislation passed, and so what i would tell democrats that are hesitant in making sure that these get through, look at what mitch mcconnell did with the three supreme court choices and how he changed the rules and he can do that. i just talked about how republicans in texas, so they could pass whatever they wanted to, if we do not make passing those two pieces of legislation
the white house. two possibilities. ron brownstein was on your air a little while ago talking about the possibility that they are trying to lay the basis for states to advance voter id bills, a further restriction of voter rights using this as an argument. the other possibility is they prefer talking about this rather than talking about general flynn, rather than talking about contact with russia, this is a coppic they know reporters engage in and they can get into a back-and-forth over and we find fascinating. the fact of the matter is, michigan did a review of the kbal lots and found 31 people voted twice, voted absentee, 31. he said on the issue of people being registered, some of the president s closest advisers also registered in both states. it s not the same thing. and perhaps children as well. it happens.
government issued photo id in order to vote. not one state. that particularly strict regulation is a totally new thing. then the 2008 election happened with its unprecedented turnout among minorities and the young and in the 2010 election happened and republicans took over control from democrats in 11 state legislatures and almost immediately there after, voter id bills became really, really popular. 16 states have now passed restrictive voter id laws. every single one had a republican-controlled state legislature except for rhode island. they went to the governors and generally speaking the democratic voters vetoed them and the republican governors signed them. that was state one, state, phase two, governors. last year, south carolina made it more difficult to vote, nikki haley said it was one of his signature accomplishments, things she s proudest of even though the justice department struck it down saying it might keep thousands of people from voting. the state objected, it sued the