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And legal barriers while others are openly questioning the administration s motives. it s not really clear what the stadata is going to be used for, a witch hunt of some kind. reporter: the president argued massive voter fraud occurred in last year s election involving millions of ballots. so many things are going on. reporter: but even some states willing to provide some information don t necessarily buy that. i do not believe that vote fraud occurred on the scale that s been described. i do believe that vote fraud occurs and it is important to take steps to prevent it. reporter: the electronic privacy information center the privacy advocacy group here in d.c. has asked a federal court to temporarily block the white house effort. meanwhile, the point man on the president s commission, kansas secretary of state chris kobak, is die fending the request for info. there is skepticism it is essentially trying to validate ....
True. there is no evidence of significant voter fraud. but some states who also went for trump is balking, iowa, colorado, others. you might find some illegal activity, but not to the scale that s described. people died 10 years ago and are still voting. illegal immigrants are still voting. reporter: as a candidate, president trump insisted fraud was a real problem. even after he won the electoral college, he lashed out at news for hillary clinton tweeting, i would have won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. he called out chris kobak who ....
Really tries to do. i think we all are pretty interested in that. molly, how are you reading into some of the possible trump appointments? we re hearing about john bolton, secretary of state, especially with all this talk about draining the swamp and being the outsider candidate. it seems like he is talking to a bunch of insiders. well, the interesting thing about john bolton is if you remember i was covering the senate at the time, george w. bush had tried to appoint john bolton as the u.n. ambassador and basically the senate democrats in charge at the time killed that nomination. eventually bolton was, you know, appointed via recess appointment. that said bolton has been kind of an outsider and it s really interesting given his remarks on the iran deal, we are going to see some interesting choices here. i think that it s really important that mike pence is heading up this transition team, though, because he has a lot of experience, he knows these players in washington, d.c., he k ....
Before that money can be sent. well, that would shut off more than $10 billion a year that is sent home to mexico from mexican nationals living illegally in the united states and the mexican people depend on that money. so what do you know about kobak s reputation within the republican party and what do you think this means for immigration reform in a trump administration? i think people who support immigration reform comprehensive immigration reform were alarmed by his comments because he is known as taking a hard line on issues such as illegal immigration. if you listen to donald trump s speech on election night he didn t talk about building the wall, he didn t talk about his most controversial plans, he talked about creating infrastructure jobs and he talked about caring for veterans, things that i think you can get some bipartisan agreement on. so i m really interested to see how much of a priority he puts on immigration reform and building the wall or if that s one of the firs ....
It s a lot different than running a business, a private business that donald trump has been doing. i mean, all of a sudden the people that you hire are going to be in the spotlight, you re going to have to figure out how to manage a communications team, what kind of person did you hire to deal with congress, how do you thiel with your congressional liaisons. it s much more complex because not only are you hiring people to help you further your agenda and get the message out, but all these people will be under a lot of scrutiny. absolutely. sema, let s play what one of trump team transition members, what one of them said about how they are going to get mexico to pay for that wall. there is chris kobak, the kansas secretary of state and anti-immigration architect. all we tell them from this point forward after our regulation is passed if you want to send money home, remittences and you are an alien living in the united states, you have to prove that you are here legally ....