commission of the president and how do you view how states are changing a lot of the voting laws? well, i actually think it should be renamed. it s actually the voter suppression commission. we know that that is what the agenda is. you know, trump is still obsessed over the fact that he lost the popular vote and so i guess he s looking for those 3 million illegal votes. but we really do know that this is about the mass purging of voters around the country. and one thing that i m proud of is that so many states are standing up and refusing to cooperate. california is certainly one of many. and, you know, what s one of the things we tell countries around the world that they need to, you know, spread democracy, we would be absolutely denouncing countries for doing something like this. you know i work a lot in africa and there are american african presidents that are trying to change the constitution, trying to change the voting participation.
two things for voter suppression that this is ultimately what that is about. it is. and then secondly, if he s saying that we don t know if we can trust the results of the 2016 election, what does that mean for the 2020 election? well, this is such a threat to democracy, this voter suppression commission which is what it should properlien called because every step they re taking in the queries that they re making to state governments and local governments is all intended to hold down votes, democratic votes that they are trying to keep people are trying to keep from coming to the polls. the people he s collected in this commission, they all have long histories of voter suppression that go back twenlt years. so that s antidemocratic. and raising doubts about the legitimacy of an election is p antidemocratic. both of them undermine the faith that we have in our system. it s very, very important for us, moving forward, and if we get into a situation like a
suppression commission. and you know that because the chairman of this commission chris koback has a history of doing this in his state of kansas where he is the secretary of state. we are talking about somebody who wants to gather personal pieces of information, information that he himself in the state of kansas is refusing to hand over to his own commission and the reason is very clear. he wants to do what he did in kansas which is purge the voter roles np. in kansas what ended up happening was individuals citizens who shared the name of undocumented immigrants, they had their voting rights stricken. they were they were taken off the roles. in is nothing more than an attempt to gather information in order to to give down recommendations to restrict voting rights. not just the voting rights of anybody, the voting rights of minorities, the voting rights of people. that s not true. it absolutely is true. it is the fear amongering here is the saddest part of this. where you r
let me be clear, president trump. we re not hiding anything. what we re doing is protecting. we re protecting the privacy and the private information of voters across america. we are protecting their right to vote by not legitimizing this voter suppression commission and we are protecting the integrity of our election because study after study has shown voter fraud is exceedingly rare, always very isolated. there s no truth to these baseless allegations of massive voter fraud. at last count, according to the hill, 29 states are refusing to comply with the request in its entirety. what does that suggest to you? well, i think that s a pretty telling. more than half the united states of america is already saying no dice, both democrat and republican, a bipartisan pushback to, again, this baseless allegations, these lies, frankly, not just from the president but you look at who he put in charge of this bogus commission. secretary kobach from kansas with a long track record of
fraud commission that is really a voter suppression commission. why do i say that? because not just the head of it, but all the staff are experts in how to tamp down democratic turnout. that is what they have done for the last 15 years. literally that is how they spent their time. so now they will try to gather a lot of information from different states to try to further restrict democratic constituencies there voting. the interesting thing is 18 have resisted, and more are on the way in part because even kansas who the head of the xhilts coco comes from, they won t corpor e cooperate. and this comes because there must be fraud because trump didn t win the pup lar vote. if the states aren t cooperating, i don t see how valuable the commission will be in terms of the conclusions that they draw from it and it probably will just end up on a dusty shelf and donald trump