voter ids, citizens united, trump officials. why isn t trump on the list, because he beat her soundly? i have no idea why you read that list. just for your entertainment purposes. i was entertained. but let s take the occasion for a historic moment, and that is there s something that hillary clinton and president trump agree on, which clinton has said publicly. and that is the poor, reckless judgment of comey. and i don t know if he deserves to the fired. that sounds like a poor decision by the president. but i do think he should have been disciplined because of his
in 2006 congress overwhelmingly reauthorized the voting rights act for 25 years, the supreme court unfortunately threw that out a few years later, but that was the last time that we ve seen republicans support in any numbers measures to liberalize voting, to help achieve equal rights. since then the republicans in state after state have done everything they could under the rubric, the false rubric of voter fraud to make it harder for minorities to vote, to cut down on voting days, cut down on voting places, to use to require voter ids of the type that not middle class people don t often have, like driver s licenses and so forth. so there are active attempts in many states by republicans to this day to cut down on voting rights, to make it harder to vote and we have to fight this.
and transparency. like i said i think there are democrats that are willing to work on how we secure our election. spencer you want to figure out a way to kick the dead people off the voter roll? i m getting there. i think there are democrats willing to work with that if republicans would get in line and say hey, listen. for 60 some odd years because the voting rights act that has not been renewed and almost eight or nine years and republicans, because they have the majority in the house are the problem with getting legislation through. if you want to talk to john lewis, if you want to talk to democrats are working on getting it through on how we increase voter protection then let s have that conversation but let s not stand in the way of it. spoon i want to get a quick response and i ve got to go. it s important that you look and say that you have republicans that are in that effort. you want to use voter ids and make sure that every vote is a lawful vote. that s a big step. ma
elections interfered through these process. but in fairness to this commission, it s not national security or cyber security officials. they have in no position to confront this issue. yes, they re going to look at voter ids based on false information. i think they re on the ground, trying to understand. but they probably don t know anything about russian hacking. they know when things are being penetrated. with all due respect you re missing the point because we re not alleging that russia hacked machines. we re saying the hacking of john pudestau s email and distributing those things and doing those type things is vastly different than what the secretaries of state do. because just this wreak, i believe it was yesterday. he said if russia was involved
the right and the conservatives in this country engineered a decision in the supreme court that guts our campaign finance system, they have gone after people s right to vote with jerry mandering and voter i.d.s. now they re trying to fill a supreme court vacancy that isn t theirs. it was barack obama s. all of these are illegitimate. i think people should look at this, not just a one person or one judge being considered, but the fact tt our basic pillars of democracy, these institutions, the right to vote, the way we elect people in terms of campaign finance, the way we elect the president, and the integrity of the supreme court, they re all under attack and these are illegitimate attacks that have to be countered. you put it that way, that s what i hear from a lot of people when i m out reporting out in the field. a lot of times in the press and particularly on tv we re covering the narrow choice as it