you need other data. let s be specific. the information we asked for is the publicly available voter rolls. right. you can walk in off the street of new york and ask for that in your state. right. any person watching can ask for that. it s publicly available. the reason you need that information is to do things like if someone comes before the commission and says 100 people voted in this state in this election year and we believe they were deceased at the time the ballots were cast. we can look at the voter roles and say those people were not actually registered in that state at that time. your claim is false. but the secretaries of state are already saying they know that they ve done it within their own states. they don t need you to certify their findings. as a secretary of state i m familiar with what other states have done. most states have not done an in-depth investigation of voter fraud in their state. part of the reason we have in kansas is because we re fighting
what is your response to the criticism? it s ridiculous. first of all, they allege that somehow i m not qualified because i pointed out widespread voter fraud in my own state of kansas. we re litigating our proof of citizenship requirement when voting, and we presented to a dur u.s. district court 128 cases of people trying to get on voter roles. i m simply saying in my state we discovered a problem. but no commission looked tat from a nationwide perspective. so the other thing they claim is that somehow a commission studying this issue results in voter suppression. to try to decipher that, i think they re saying if a commission studies the problem in washington, d.c., somebody out in california will decide not to vote some november that doesn t make sense. in the letter they don t explain what is a ludicrous argument. they re making their case, there s politics here. the general assertion is that
i want someone who makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i m getting the best price every time. visit booking.com. booking.yeah! . president trump s commission on election integrity is set to meet for the first time today. four top democrats are calling on the commission s vice chairman to step down. they wrote a letter to the vice president, mike pence overseeing the commission saying mr. kobach has repeatedly claimed falsely that widespread voter fraud exists and advertises his work on the commission to promote his own campaign for governor of kans kansas. these actions undermine the integrity of the commission and raise significant concerns that the commission will be used as a tool for voter suppression. chris kobach joins us now.
the airport to drive a car loaded with explosive s to the terminal. it s alleged he planned to pull the trigger himself and die as a martyr. joining me, joe johns. joe, they were his plans. but it was all a set-up, so how did it all come undone? well, he got set up by a pair of fbi agents, apparently. though he thought he was about to detonate a car bomb, but when he tried to enter the airport with the vehicle, he ended up arrested. the governor of the state of kans kansas, mr. brownback, was there at the news conference and he essentially talked about what the government did in the situation. listen. in our ongoing war on terrorism, the good guys won one today. a joint operation of federal, state, and local components camtured a would-be terrorist before he caused any harm.
thank you. wolf, i m going to avlg you to do what you ask reporters. can you stand by? i want to get to breaking news out of kansas. the fbi is about to hold a news conference there talking about a terror plot. this is just in to cnn. it s a foiled bomb plot in kansas. an fbi sting operation has learned the arrest of one person accused of plotting a terrorist attack. cnn s joe johns joins us with the information. you re in washington, but this is about explosives at the wichita airport? that s what we understand. a law enforcement source confirms there was one suspect. the case was motivated by the desire to set off an explosive, we re told, at the wichita airport. the source wouldn t confirm, nor would the source deny that it was a suicide bombing that was being contemplated. but when i asked flatly for the source to deny that, he refused to comment. we re also told that this was a