and he knew he was doing, he was smart, he knew republicans would not doing anything to revive the law, he just dumped the body on their doorstep. what did we see, predictably of wave of voter suppression that otherwise would have been stopped. it would ve had to gone through pre-clearance of roberts and the conservatives hadn t gutted it. and that was the first, now it s gotten worse. we ve seen a turbocharged in the wake of donald trump s assault on american democracy, the big lie the attempt to overturn election, the first interruption of a peaceful transfer of power in hundreds of years. in republican controlled states across the country putting restrictive voting laws on the fifth pictures predicate on then came this challenge to arizona s lawn supreme court. the law requires election officials to throw away ballots cast at the wrong precinct. but they have to voting areas near you, two places to vote you get to the wrong one you
and republicans and so on. do these measures specifically target democratic voters or predominantly democratic voting areas, et cetera? the interesting thing is we ve seen the ability to vote absentee be embraced by voters on both sides of the aisle. and so what may happen ultimately is that the voters who are impacted by this are voters on both sides of the aisle. again, we ll certainly see more challenging issues in urban communities like detroit and flint that have also had historical barriers in place and but it s also very likely that some of these provisions may also make it more difficult for all voters to participate and, you know, it s sort of the ironic aspect of this very misguided effort. so you have the measures designed to make it harder to vote but also the ones and arguably, even more alarming, that would allow partisans to influence the counting or the
a legitimate election. this is a question that a lot of kenyans are grappling with particularly on social media obviously there is one half of the country that participated in the vote and another half that either chose not to participate or could participate for one reason or the other but analysts have been quick to say that people stayed away from the poll because of various reasons not just because of the boycott that was called by the opposition but because of rain which affected a lot of voting areas and also people who are not potus and these are people who stayed away from the from the election protesting of various institutions including the judiciary and the electoral bodies saying they don t trust it and they don t think these bodies are acting independently. to do double use that has come out of reporting from the kenyan capital nairobi thank you and we re going to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world to white south africans have
look at what the hearing said today in terms of these individuals. most of them who ve been in service in the intel community for decades, not just with this administration. for decades. some that were appointed by the prior administration and president bush. this was the considered opinion of all the intelligence professionals. bret: let me ask you this. there they have said there is not evidence that there was hacking of actual, any changes in votes. do you believe that somehow they hacking changed votes or change the outcome of the election in any way where your party is somewhat saying this is not legitimate? i m not here to relitigate the election. i m here to find out what happened. the intelligence professionals said while there were some forays into voting files and voting areas that didn t affect the actual account.
bringing up issue of poe things, watch the polls, watch what is going on in voting areas. president obama said this, we have tight system. the internet is not connected to voting booths across the country. there is no way to get to that. he was sticking up for the system to say how solid it was. interesting what can flip when the shoe is on other foot. he appears correct at time. all recounts efforts have pretty much fizzled. martha: very true. i want to get your take on rex tillerson, the other big story of today. a lot of talk about him, his ties to russia. but he is also getting a lot of very positive feedback on this pick. long-time executives ceo of exxonmobil, been with the company 41 years. getting a lot of positive press. he is the kind of fresh, creative, outside the box choice that donald trump promised when he ran for president and as john roberts noted, he was actually recommended by condoleeza rice