launch fromp about the requt esmecos from the commission's vice chair, kansas secretary of state chris kobach. >> what are you afraid of? all this is information. >> reporter: calling criticism of the commission a political stunt. after losing the popular vote to hillary clinton, president trump has alleged, without proof, that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally. >> the commission does not exist to prove or disprove anything the president said in january. >> reporter: voting rights advocates question the entire process. >> not only should voters be skeptical of the results, but they should be extremely, you know, circumspect about the collection of this data and how it's going to be handled. >> reporter: peter alexander, nbc news, the white house. >>> in pennsylvania, the manhunt is on for the gunman police say killed an 18-year-old recent high school graduate in a deadly case of suspected road rage. tonight the victim's family is speaking out to us about their tragic loss. here's nbc's morgan radford. >> reporter: tonight an intense manhunt under way for a man who police say shot and kill

he called out chris kobak who calls the claims unsubstantiated. ko kobach has asked for cheeaters n the last month, and he's a champion for voter i.d. laws which many find as a way to suppress minority votes. and he was found by a federal judge in kansas just last week for his conduct in a lawsuit involving voting rights. connecticut's take? given secretary kobach's history, we find it very difficult to have confidence in the work of this commission. a cornerstone problem here is that there is just no evidence out there there's ever been a widespread voter fraud problem, despite what the white house says. and interestingly enough, those states are raising privacy concerns, including the president's home state of indiana, which says it can't comply with this request. >> joining me now is kentucky secretary. your office was in receipt of this request. you said your state of kentucky will not reply. why not? >> not on my watch will we start going against the 10th amendm t amendment. not on my watch will we participate in a political activity that is really a c

. >> so chris kobach can't provide the information himself. >> seems to be. >> sreenivasan: there seemsbe a lot of focus on protecting the integrity. i don't see any description about russian meddling that might have happened. >> it's not clear exactly what the commission is going to do. initially the president said he wanted to look at the potential for voter fraud. a couple of democrats on the commission said they wanted to look into russian meddling. kobach said he might be willing to look at that but that wasn't on the list of questions sent to various officials. i'm concerned it's going to be something that is going to try to support the president's agenda, claiming voter fraud and making it harder for people to register to vote. >> sreenivasan: is this the kind of information campaigns would pay for? >> in some states campaigns do pay for this kind of information. the fact this will be sento the president's office is concerning. rather than having outside, professional staff or social scientists that study this information, we know this information is going literally to the execut