Is Trump's voting commission really about election integrity?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As he visits Europe for the second time, President Trump is still obsessed with his loss of the popular vote last year. But many state officials are resisting demands from his new Commission on Election Integrity. We hear about states' rights and personal privacy.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.8 | U.S. elections and voter fraud. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:17.1 | President Trump's new commission on election integrity is already involved in disputes about fake news. |
| 0:23.3 | Its demands for massive amounts of information have led to reports that officials of 44 states |
| 0:28.5 | claim violations of state's rights and protections of personal privacy. |
| 0:33.7 | But commission leaders insist all's well, even though Mississippi's Republican Secretary of State told them to jump in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 0:42.3 | We'll update the progress of a group established on the president's baseless claim that 3 million people voted illegally in last year's election. |
| 0:50.7 | Later on today's talking point, Colombia's FARC rebels have finally disarmed. What now? First, |
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| 1:13.2 | Go to KCRW.com slash News24 or listen on KCRW's app. |
| 1:22.9 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:31.8 | Hello again, Warren. I'll need back with To The Point. As he visits Europe for the second time, President Trump is still obsessed with his loss of the popular vote last year. |
| 1:40.4 | But many state officials are resisting demands from the president's new commission on election integrity. |
| 1:46.8 | We heard about state's rights and personal privacy. Today's talking point after 52 years of civil |
| 1:52.8 | conflict, Colombia's FARC rebels have given up all their weapons. But reintegration into society |
| 1:58.5 | won't be easy. How will they find jobs and establish families? |
| 2:03.1 | First is news update. |
| 2:04.2 | President Trump has arrived in Germany |
| 2:05.9 | and a likely mixed reception from other leaders at the G20 summit. |
| 2:10.4 | But in Poland, he was wildly cheered by a crowd, |
| 2:13.6 | much of which was bust into Warsaw by the country's conservative government. The story of Poland is the story of a people who have never lost hope, |
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