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beverly gage, chris ashby, we thank you both. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: unlike the first two debates, last night we heard a lot more about policy from both candidates. here to help break them down is our own lisa desjardins. the first exchanges that was substantive was about supreme court nominee decisions that one of these two presidents whoever wins would have and what kind of impact that person would have in the courts and in cases like roe v way. >> you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb on the 9th month on the final day and that's not acceptable. >> sreenivasan: how many late term abortions are there because it usually gets distilled down to worse case scenario. >> this is the best way we have for these kind of statistics. after 21 weeks here's what they say. in the u.s. roughly 1.3% of all abortions happen after 21 weeks. that's considered late term but it's still the middle of the second trimester. that relates into 6100 abortions that in 2012. that of almost 700,000 so that's a small percentage. >> sreenivasan: what is hillary clinton's position. >> she says s

i want to bring in chris ashby, a campaign finance and election lawyer with ashby law firm, and is a veteran of politics and campaigns, most notably in the commonwealth of virginia. chris, you became a part of this conversation today by posting what you did on twitter saying, quote, let's dispense with this notion that the election is rigged, shall we? and follow that up with 32 more posts that caution our eye because your concern seemed to be with your face, what a quaint notion, what is the danger to you of this talk of a rigged election? >> well, brian, thanks for having me tonight. there are several dangers, first of all, the public's faith and confidence in our system of voting and in the integrity of that system is foundational to the legitimacy of our government and legitimacy of the leaders who we elect to represent and lead us. second, when donald trump talks about a rigged election, he's asserting that the election has been corrupted, that, you know, some sort of outside influence has infiltrated the election so that it will be decided on some basis other than the votes that

the head of that law firm joins me now, chris ashby, who has also happens to be a republican campaign lawyer. thank you for havibeing here. >> i talked to the ohio governor, a republican. why did your law firm feel the need to do this? >> as lawyers we have a special obligation to the rule of law and to the system of laws of which our system of elections in voting is a part. to defend that system, when it's untact, unfairly, and in an unfounded way, as donald trump has been doing for the past several days. >> your law firm we tweeted this article from the boston blo"bo," quote, open three talking about violent rebellion and hillary clinton's assassination in the event that donald trump does not win-w win. . i can't believe we're here. what do you think of those fears? what do you think of how this language is, as it's been put forth, dangerous? >> i can't believe we're hearing it either and it is dangerous language in any number of respects that you just highlighted. one important respect is going to be in the polling place on election day. donald trump has called for his supporters t

the head of that law firm joins me now, chris ashby, who has also happens to be a republican campaign talked to the ohio governor, a republican. why did your law firm feel the need to do this? >> as lawyers we have a special obligation to the rule of law and to the system of laws of which our system of elections in voting is a part. to defend that system, when it's untact, unfairly, and in an unfounded way, as donald trump has been doing for the past several days. >> your law firm we tweeted this article from the boston blo"bo," quote, open three talking about violent rebellion and hillary

earlier my colleague spoke to republican election lawyer, chris ashby.d to say about the impact donald trump's claims could have on the election system. >> when one candidate claims in advance ever the election the entire election is rigged, that it has been -- the outcome of that election has been predetermined by someone else, it has -- a debilitating effect on the legitimacy of the entire government. those of us who have worked in the system, who understand our election laws, and who understand the way that elections are conducted in the united states, i think have an obligation to speak out and to tell americans who are willing to listen and who are fair-minded and reasonable, the system is just not rigged. >> our republican leaders like reince priebus, are they doing enough to counter these claims? should they be more vocal? >> donald trump has changed his position on that a bit in the last couple days. he's gone from saying there is universal -- the whole system is rigged to i'm just going to not say i give up if there is a close election. which is

it's the republican election, attorney chris ashby, who noted there is no proof of this, nyu, loyola, said there is no proof of voter fraud. so my question for you is, on election day will you accept the outlook of this election? including donald trump? >> absent the proof of rigged voting, of course. and hillary clinton believes that tens of millions of americans are deplorable. by the way, we'll accept the election results if in fact there are no irregularities, if the election numbers are clear. if you're donald trump and want to get one tenth of the positive coverage that hillary clinton gets, it's very frustrating. if we had a level playing field, a semi tilted playing field. i agree with newt gingrich in all of that. but i'll tell you we'll cut through it and deliver the message to the people, we don't have a choice. >> there is no proof there is collusion, you're talking about hillary clinton's e-mails and wikileaks, we have been reporting on it on days now. >> proof of what? >> that there is any media bias that you're talking about. oh, my goodness. >> kelly, let me just talk

of our decentralized national e e lek toirl system, and to dig in on the facts we have invited chris ashby, campaign finance and election lawyer, and thank you for joining the viewers who have seen the last segment and see a republican pointing to certain irregularities in other elections to argue for donald trump's claims and you were moved to write a piece walking how it does not work like this. >> is well, if you wanted to try to hack or rig an election, there are a couple of ways to try, but the system is designed to prevent that. you could try to hack a voting machine, but the voting machines are not networked so you can't surf over to the election machine and hack in, because you would have to have physical access, and the machines are stored under lock and key, and protected by tampered seals and subjected to logical and accuracy testing observed by the public, and so there are procedu procedures and safeguards to prevent you from physically hacking and manipulating a a machine. >> and you document exactly how local localized the process is, and basically local officials and the com