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Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.

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Speaker 2: The White House would like to end to focus on

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the midterm election strategy of focusing on the economy. For

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Donald Trump, he continues to come back to this issue here,

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and it is not clear seven months out just how

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far he may seek to go despite the legal questions

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and row blocks in his way.

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Speaker 1: You know, Metame Secretary, I want to note you, quote you,

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if you will, for a moment, because I think you

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put your finger on at least from a feeling you

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had in a conversation with that the state elections chiefs

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had regarding the participation of ICE at our voting Boo's

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locations this November. It was noted in the press. Main

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Secretary of State Shinnebello, as a Democrat, left the call

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with more questions and answers. She said federal officials declined

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to answer specific questions about the Save Act and would

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not publicly affirm the states, not the federal government, hold

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constitutional authority over elections. So take your feeling, because I

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know not just the feeling, but what you heard, and

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you're now just opposed to oppose it against what we

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are hearing today that there's a cabal of election deniers

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working for Donald Trump to put in place in executive

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order that basically strips away the rights you have and

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the responsibilities you have as a state official charge with

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guarding and protecting and executing elections in your state, that

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they're going to now come in and do it anyway.

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Because here's the deal. I don't care what you heard

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on the call, you know what. To be honest, it

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doesn't matter what these people are saying, because come this

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November stuff will just happen. This will be Oh, we're

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going to do it and beg for forgiveness later. We're

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doing all this pretending now that we're going to sort

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of talk this this extreme, this extreme extreme administration off

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the voting cliff and restore it to normalcy. And I

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got the impression in reading that story that you were like,

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you know what, this is a load of crap. These

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folks are not going to be about the business of

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respecting my responsibilities as a state election official. Am I

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far off the mark here?

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Speaker 3: Well, the last question that I asked them was would

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they publicly recognize state sovereignty over the elections? And there

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was a stunned silence. This is not a hard question

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any fourth grader studying Civics knows that the Constitution places

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the States in charge.

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Speaker 1: That's Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at

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seven pm Eastern on ms Now