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Speaker 1: dot org Today Bloomberg, Lajos Jo and Grasso and Greg

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Speaker 1: Sture discussed President Trump's executive ordered establishing a new commission

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Speaker 1: on voter fraud. They speak with Richard Bruffalt that a

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Speaker 1: professor at Columbia Law School, and Nate per Silly, a

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Speaker 1: professor at Stanford Law School. Rich this commission is being

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Speaker 1: built by the White House at least as a bipartisan commission.

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Speaker 1: There are at least two Democrats on it. What do

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Speaker 1: you think is that? Is this going to be an

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Speaker 1: even handed look at America's election laws? Well, it's not

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Speaker 1: really being set up that way, uh as Nate an experience.

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Speaker 1: Nate was the research director of the last major commission

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Speaker 1: that looked into the election administration system in the US. Typically,

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Speaker 1: these commissions have to airs and one of a prominent

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Speaker 1: senior Democrat and one of a prominent senior Republican. So

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Speaker 1: there was the Carter Baker or Baker Carter, Jimmy Carter

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Speaker 1: and James Baker's Republican Secretary State, the one that Nate

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Speaker 1: was on the Power Ginsburg. They were the top election

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Speaker 1: lawyers of their two different parties. There's one of the

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Speaker 1: top two figures of vote Republicans, the Vice President, Mike

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Speaker 1: Pences the chair, and I believe Chris Koback supposed to

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Speaker 1: the vice chair, and he not only is the partisan,

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Speaker 1: but he has taken a very um a strident efficacy

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Speaker 1: position on a lot of election issues. So there may

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Speaker 1: be some Democrats on the commission. I think the full

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Speaker 1: membership has not been announced, but it is certainly not

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Speaker 1: being set up in the the bipartisan way that pass

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Speaker 1: commission that up looked into election leader issues have been Nate.

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Speaker 1: We know that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in

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Speaker 1: February that no federal money should be spent investigating voter fraud.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't the commission need professional staff with experience dealing with

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Speaker 1: election administration and resources to examine any credible evidence? I mean,

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Speaker 1: don't you need to put money into this commission? They

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Speaker 1: will put money into the commission. I mean, I've looked

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Speaker 1: at the executive order and it, you know, suggests that

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Speaker 1: they'll have all the support from the General Services Administration.

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Speaker 1: And Chris Kobach said that their plan is to match

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Speaker 1: up the voter lists with other lists that the federal

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Speaker 1: government has about green card holders and other citizenship databases

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Speaker 1: in order to see how many non citizens and ineligible

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Speaker 1: voters are on the roles that may have voted in

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Speaker 1: the last election. And so this will actually be a

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Speaker 1: relatively expensive effort as these things go. I'm so this commission, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a real research effort if they undertake

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Speaker 1: a real research effort. One thing I would also note

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Speaker 1: is that there's no concluding date for the commission, So

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Speaker 1: this commission could be there for a while, perhaps looking

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Speaker 1: into what happens in the two thousand eighteen election. As

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Speaker 1: well as Naper Sillier, professor at Stanford Law School, and

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