Welcome to meet the press now.

I'm Kristen Welker.

We begin with the White House pushing for new election legislation, capping off a week in which the president repeatedly called for federal control over elections,

even though that power is granted by the Constitution to the states.

Late yesterday, the president posting on social media his demands for the, quote,

Save America Act.

Those demands include voter ID, proof of citizenship to register to vote, and notably, mail-in ballots with only a few exceptions.

The president's requirements appear to be an attempt to retrofit an existing Republican-backed

bill, similarly named the SAVE Act. But the changes the president is calling for do not appear

to address his repeated calls this week for the federal government and, by extension, his party

to play a direct role in administering elections. The Republicans should say, we want to take

over, we should take over the voting in at least many 15 places. The Republicans order to

nationalize the voting.

If a state can't run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it.

Because, you know, if you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections.

I don't know why the federal government doesn't do them anyway.

We can't allow cheating in elections.

Now, if we need to put in federal controls as opposed to state controls, remember this.

They're really an agent.

They're really accumulating the votes for who wins an election.

If they can't do it honestly and it can't be done properly and timely, then something else has to happen.

It comes as state election officials tell NBC News they received what they're calling an unusual and

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