from capitol hill. reporter: a new filing from the justice department, raising serious questions about wilbur ross s testimony before two house committees earlier this year, when wilbur ross said it was not him or the white house that was involved with initiating discussions about a citizenship question on the 2020 census, suggesting it was the justice department instead. now this new justice department filing suggests otherwise. it says that actually, it was the former white house adviser, steve bannon, who had called wilbur ross, and urged him to talk to the kansas secretary of state chris cobach, about adding a citizenship question to that census. now, earlier this year, when ross was asked at a congressional hearing by a democratic congresswoman whether or not he was aware about whether or not the white house was involved, or anyone at the white house was involved, he said he didn t know. he also said it was a justice department, the justice department that began discussions over
supposed to be here, because, you know, this is such a big day. this is such a big day. i was supposed to call you. they said, do you mind calling chris cobach, and do you mind because of the fact today we are getting this great, great talented wonderful supreme court judge, they said could you call the people of kansas and tell them we won t be able to make it tonight. i said, i don t have the courage to do that. i don t have the courage. i said i don t have the courage. they called me, they said, sir, we re signing the next united states supreme court justice. you ve heard it. the biggest thing a president can do, they re always said is supreme court justice, the biggest.
secretary of state and current candidate chris cobach to help run it. many states refusing to comply with the suspiciously broad demands for voters personal information. the final straw came when democrat dunlop sued to see information being shared only among its republican members. the panel was abruptly shut down after a judge ruled in his favor but that hasn t stopped the president from repeating his claims and advocating for voter i.d. laws like he did last week in florida. if you go out and want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. you need i.d. now, as anyone who has been to a grocery store the last several decades knows, you do not need an i.d. to buy groceries but illegal voting is unacceptable when it occurs but the fact is that study after study hads shown it is extremely rare and statistically insignificant, for example, in north carolina, there were some 400 cases felons trying to vote in 2016 and cases of people
because they are against any reasonable conclusion. governor cuomo, we re out of time. we ll get more statements from the nra and their response to this effort you are asserting right now. thanks for being with us this morning. appreciate it, governor. thank you, john. thank you, allison. it s great you still come here even though chris has left us, we appreciate that you still take time maybe chris has left us. which one is it, because chris left? well, i don t want to say, allison, but you seem in a much better mood. i guess it s the summer months that put you in a better mood. that s it. that s it, governor. i can t imagine what else it could be. it is summer, the extra sun light. it s summer. always great that s our story, sticking with it. yes. come back any time. i love having the governor on. yeah. we had a whole shik we used to as far as making fun of chris.
bewilderment, just a journalist? we knew him as so much more. could this be true? or is it merely a veil meant to confuse unbelievers, one of the thousand names of vishnu? this is the chris cuomo we know. there is a sense of duty. chris cuomo was an 88-pound 40-kilo there you go, bro. excellent. make it look easy. keep the belly tight. slow down. hashtag stand firm. please use it. p sean: tucker: just a jourt indeed. you are so much more than that, chris, with abs like that, don t sell yourself short. that s it for us tonight. tune in every night at 8:00 to