since 2010, 2,394 alleged cases of electoral fraud have been reported to the electoral commission.clear evidence of double registrations, even within the constituency. does the minister agree that we should have a central system that flags up people who are double—registered, wherever they are in the country? but surely the time has come for automatic electoral registration. how can it possibly be fair that, according to the office for national statistics, in my inner—city nottingham constituency, less than three quarters of adults are on the electoral register, but in the minister?s constituency, over 97% of adults are? is not the real electoral fraud those policies that stand in the way of citizens exercising their democratic rights? it has been highlighted that all someone needs when they go to vote is a name and an address. in theory, someone could get hold of a telephone directory and vote all day in different polling stations. does the minister agree that it is time to use photo identification to prevent electoral fraud? my honourable friend is absolutely right. people deserv

the electoral commission site there is no evidence of widespread abuse, they have received complaints central register to vote site but 381 different election counter site but 381 different election cou nter faces site but 381 different election counter faces so there needs to be joining up which could prevent this. middle—class dementia cases halt the growth of longer life. what is surprising about this, we are living longer and are now saying that is being reversed, possibly because of dementia. everyone wants a long and happy life but at some point there has to be a limit of how long you can live. read don't all want to be 120. one day we might be. god for bed. all the papers have pictures of young prince george, a bit of relu cta nt young prince george, a bit of reluctant prince, reluctant in warsaw, he didn't want to get off the plane. we're expecting this child at the age of three to stop performing, it's a tricky one. when you have children on a flight, that is one thing, i knowjason and others have concerns. if i was dressed like that i would be relu cta nt to dressed like tha

the daily mail says that the electoral commission is launching an investigation into students that mayaily express leads with a story on a new diet that says it can beat alzheimer's disease. the royal couple's trip to poland makes the sun's front page. the paper leads with a story claiming the duchess of cambridge wants a third child. so let's begin. hs2, jason, if so controversial, very expensive and we heard today, very expensive and we heard today, very sad for people who were living in new homes that will be demolished. yes, the route has been changed again. is it worth money and is it the route we need? the idea when it was first unveiled, it would be good for connectivity between the north and south, a lot of people in the north said what we really want is an east—west connection, that is where the big gaps are in transport

trumpet clinton -- trump and clinton was 3 million votes, she won by 3 million hink if thei t electoral commission had chosen are present, and you go back to al gore and george bush, that count there, was that an electoral vote that made the difference for that presidency? and then you say 20 or 30 votes as fraud, that doesn't seem to make much of a difference when a lot of these people who were elected when by hundreds of thousands of votes were 50,000 -- or 50,000 depending on the level of the election. guest: first of all, there are literally hundreds of elections across the country that are decided by one vote for a small number of votes. you talk about the 2000 election where the presidential election was really decided by about 800 votes in florida. i think it was the new york daily post did a study in which they compared the voter registration list in new york with the voter registration was in florida. they found hundreds of people registered in both states, and the possibility was people were illegally voting in both states. it does not take a lot of fraud to change the outcome of an elec

the electoral commission in venezuela is not providing oversight. can anyone have faith in the results? well, this is part... this is a perfectly valid question that we answer in the following way. according to our laws, the constitution in venezuela asks for every popular consult, for every vote, to be upheld and to be, to have some sort of backing by a branch of the government. in this case, it is the legislated ranch, the assembly, that has called upon this process, this electoral process , this process, this electoral process, to be developed. —— branch. the civil society, every aspect of it, the universities, the students, the workers, everybody else, they are developing a way to... we have developed in record time a free and fair election. we have no need for... umm... a national electoral council to back us up as a civil society in order to do so because we have to constitution by our side. realistically, no one expects nicolas maduro to act on this vote. what are you and other groups going to do next? well, what we are going to do next? well

citizens providing all that information to this electoral commission well there's two things there i think when you create a big database of information you're allowing one hack to get lots of information in one go but actually the secretaries of state of the states have rejected handing that information to the federal government in order to look at this issue because you know they don't feel it's appropriate so in that case the device the device political system is actually doing its job but really there needs to be some federal oversight of the election process as well so the homeland security can unleash money to the states to defend the electoral system so it's a it's a double edged problem railing and what what do you think that this. presidential commission is really trying to do this this comes from a president who claimed that millions of people voted illegally so is that what this commission is setting out to do to try to find millions of people that went from state to state to vote more than one time which seems like a pretty out there presumption right well i think that's

mr hand, the electoral commission in venezuela says 41% of eligible voters cast their ballot for the the proposed new constituent assembly which as i mentioned will be tossed with rewriting the constitution. however, the opposition has chosen not to accept that. more results as we receive them on bbc news. president vladimir putin has confirmed that 755 staff from us diplomatic missions are to be expelled from russia by september i. he added that further sanctions were being considered. the move is retaliatory, coming after us sanctions on russia were overwhelmingly approved by both houses of congress on tuesday. looking at these moves, greg dawson reports. on a day when russia was once again flexing its military muscle — on this occasion, a navy parade in st petersburg — vladimir putin was getting ready to play his hand in a diplomatic tussle with the us. more than 700 staff ordered to leave their diplomatic missions. this is thought to be the largest expulsion from any country in modern history. it is a delayed retaliation after president obama expelled russian diplomatic staff fro

results came in tension and confusion escalated further first the electoral commission declared alassane ouattara as clear winner. not a son with tara got fifty four point one zero percent of the barracks next really. but that announcement was invalidated by the constitutional court which said no one bad bo had one votes. confusion soon turned into violence for five months ivory coast descended into chaos. three thousand people were killed in clashes in massacres between the two rival camps. that's when the accusation says long gbagbo launched a campaign of organized persecution murders and rapes against his opponents. carried out by the head of its former militia show blade with big. his alleged goal keeping his grip on power. the former president was arrested in april twenty eleven by a warrior and you went and french forces and handed to the icc repeatedly denying the accusations. gbagbo's trial is expected to last three to four years his lawyers say that at seventy two. he's been deeply affected by his detention. the bodies of two people who went missing in the swiss alps back in the

basically a year ago in october the government—controlled electoral commission postponed indefinitelyal elections and basically after more than 100 days of protest by not just the opposition but by popular protests, as your previous reports indicated, this government has its back against the wall so what it's trying to do is distract and the plan is now to rewrite the constitution, but the opposition has planned a boycott which means perhaps this could be an entirely government—controlled effort that will allow it to again postpone elections indefinitely and consolidate its own power. it's looking to strengthen its hand? surely. if this were right now maduro, the current president, if his popularity ratings are to be believed they are 10%. if it were a popular referendum or an election this government would lose so this is the only alternative. this is a huge distraction and two weeks ago by the way the opposition held an informal nonofficial referendum on the legitimacy of this referendum and more than 7.2 million venezuelans and more than 7.2 million venezuela ns voted and more than

but the central electoral commission has declared him unfit to run. to to an embezzlement conviction in february. a day before his release authorities raided his campaign headquarters. seizing computers posters and campaign leaflets. french authorities staged a mass evacuation of migrants from makeshift street camps in the north of the capital this friday. this is europe contends of an upsurge in new arrivals boosted by the summer weather and calmer waters in the mediterranean. will police say nearly two thousand eight hundred migrants captain paris's nashville neighborhood. and being taken to temporary shelters in the region is a thirty fourth assault operation in the past two years and comes just days. and of the french government unveiling a plan to deal with this ongoing crisis martin poland reports. the operation began early friday morning. dozens of police were brought in and did their best to control the crowds. i ask you. i wish okay when glory debating. a toast for the authorities was a familiar one. clear in overcrowded temporary welcome cen

the electoral commission's chairman says the officials body found showed signs of torture.re are concerns of violence as kenya transitions to biometric technology to identify voters and reduce fraud. a test run of the systems has been postponed. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries, i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. julia: julia thanks so thanks s, mark. the house and senate moving. ahead on tax reform law next guest once to not look forward to a reagan era game changer. they could provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity ,. nicholas birther is with us now to talk about's how he is advising his clients. great to have you on the show. let me start with the statement we got from the big six on the plans for tax reform. how optimistic are you in light of that? nicholas: i don't know if optimism is the right answer, but if you compare it to the trump proposals, which were six paragraphs on a campaign website read the and you big sixes manifesto, it made the trump manifesto seem like tedious. julia: a lack of opt

the electoral commission chairman said the officials body showed signs of torture.oncerns about further tolence as kenya transitions biometric technology to reduce voter fraud. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. im mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. inis just after 5:30 monday new york. my colleague paul allen has a look at the markets. a bit flatoking around the asia-pacific today. the nikkei futures, looking a little weaker. waiting on earnings from sony, honda, and mitsubishi. asx futures looking flat, as well. the miners will again be in focus. we saw another big surge for iron ore overnight. we saw strong chinese manufacturing data on monday. futures for iron ore in delhi were up. it has been propelling the aussie dollar elan strongly. commentaryt of the from the reserve banks cash rate decision today. the cash rate except it -- expected to stay on hold, but the dollar has been creeping up so we might see job owning from the governor. elsewhere, we are waiting on south korea july cpi that is exp

number of us stay to have refused to hand over personal information about voters to commission he set up investigate electoraled commission he set up investigate electoral fraud. he accused them of having something to hide. laura bicker explains what might happen next. donald trump set up an electoral integrity commission in may. he wanted to look at claims, including his own, that voter fraud was widespread across the united states. he believes, for instance, many people who might have died in the past are still on the electoral roll and people are voting on their behalf. to that end, the commission sent out letters to all the states. they are asking for very personal information about the voters, the 200 million voters across the us. they want their names, addresses and birth dates and crucially, the last four digits of their social security numbers. but some states have real concerns. first of all, they wonder how this information can be kept safe. if they send it to washington and they send it to the commission. they say this information will be ripe for hackers. they said this cyber security on it is not

to foster collaborative and respectful relationship with your state voters and our electoral process. as the commission on electoral integrity byes its work i would like to ask the american people to offer public comments on our work to the challenges that face our electoral system. we want to hear the voice of the american voter.thth that is really what this is all about. you know it is greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice president to a president who cares so deeply about the integrity of america's elections and the right of each and every american to see the sanctity ofe their vote protected. this president knows the success of our democracy depends on the american people's confidence in this electoral system. the president and i are both confident that this bipartisan commission will make the strongest democracy in thehe history of the world even stronger. d and so with gratitude for his commitment to fair and honestt elections it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to all of you the 45th president of the unitedf states of america, president donald trump. >> thank you ver

electoral process. finally, as the commission on electoral integrity begins as work, i would like to personally invite themerican people to offer their public comments and input on our work and the challenges and opportunities that face our electoral system. we want to hear the voice of the american workers because that's what this is all about. it's the greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice president to a president care so deeply about the integrity of america's elections and the right of each and every american. to see the sanctity of their vote protected. this president knows that this depends on the american people's confidence in his electoral system. and the president and i are both confident that this bipartisan commission will make the strongest democracy in the history of the world, even stronger. and so with gratitude for his commitment to a fair and honest elections, it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to all of you, the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. >> thank you very much. thank you. please, be seated. mr. vice president, d

the commission will identify the rules, laws, activities and practices that will enhance the american people's confidence and integrity in the electoral system. we will explore the vulnerabilities in our system that could lead to improper voter registration and even improper voting. bes commission, let me clear, this commission has no preconceived notions or preordained results. we are factfinders. and in the days ahead, we will gather the relevant tax and data . and at the conclusion of our work, we will present the president a report of our findings. i'm confident this commission will have a healthy and robust debate. the president and i expect -- the lap -- anything president and i expect nothing less. i am pleased to report the commission has already started its work, requesting publicly available data. we are grateful for the more than 30 states that have already indicated their intention to provide this in -- this information pursuant to the laws in their states. today is the first of several meetings in several months. of you brings a unique perspective based on your experience and your research and we welcome your participatio

that's the president's remarks just before the first meeting of the commission on electoral integrityn wants is voting patents, voting information from every state electoral commission so they can figure out if there's any fraud. i say that commission should get that information, and you? >> i say it should get that information, and here's why. maybe legally they can't demand the information, judge. he's over there laughing. i understand legally he can't demand it. but as a courtesy to the request of the president, they ought to cooperate. now, if there are some restrictions on certain information that because of state law, that give, make that known. but basic information will help them determine how many dead people have been voting. how many illegal voting people have been voting. that's all he's trying to do. and i really don't see anything wrong with that. stuart: well said. well said, herman cane. i don't have time for you -- [laughter] i want your response to this. this is a very serious matter that attorney general jeff sessions is talking about. a policy change so that the ju

mississippi resint celebrate the rights of privacy by conducting our own electoral pros. the commission and depending on how many voter information they get they might have to adjust their strategy. on the fit for office, coming up the push by some leaders to assess its a president is fit to serve. angry tweets seeminglily impulsive and bee dire behavior many democrats and some republicans are questioning whether president donald trump is fit to hold the office. jamie raskin has introduced a billion that would convene a billion to determine the president's fitness. we hear more from fox's ellison barber. is trying to increase support for a billion he drafted a couple of months ago. it would establish a panel to determine whether or not the president is fit to serve. representative jamie raskin's billion headed to committee in may. at the time he said 20 democratic lawmakers signed on as co-responses that number is increasing slightly. something is deeply reasoning at the white house and we hope whoever is control over there can get on top of it and pull back from this terrible cig. on t

electoral system. why do you think this is an unnecessary commission?ason it is an unnecessary commission is that it's goal is actually not to look for voter fraud. there is very little evidence that voter fraud actually exists. more people are hit by lightning in the united states then commit voter fraud, and so the states are really standing up to this administration for two reasons. one, they are concerned about consolidation of this information, names, addresses, birthdays, last four digits of social security numbers, in one place, which is a hacker's dream, and second, how this information is going to be used. kris kobach, who you mentioned is running this commission, in the state of kansas has used this to purge voter rolls of american citizens who shared names, for example, with undocumented immigrants. so we are very concerned that this information will be used as a vehicle to do that nationwide. >> dana: and yet, charlie, there is concern across the country. in fact, you have president trump sing in a tweet, "numerous states are refusing to giv

the electoral commission is one electoral system is one but there's others that are vulnerable as well, and my predecessor under secretary frank taylor, he vocalized his concerns about the private sector so i look at if confirmed to really focus on that and what our posture currently is and maybe where we have business process and tactical response processes to improve where we are currently posturing. >> thank you, you don't have to answer this but one of the questions that i also would like you to answer through rent or whatever is what you are each going to do to break down satellites between the partners between the state and local government because i think it's critical. you guys are not allowed to make a mistake, you just can't so i appreciate you guys. i fully intend to vote for your confirmation. i think you are to quality candidates, thank you very much. >> you mister chairman and thank you both for allowing us to move on the questions as well. i want to pick up where we left off on the silo issue, you bennett in law enforcement for a long time. you know full well there are c

have now said that they won't give sensitive voter data to donald trump's so-called electoral election integrity commission theoretically at least this is good news the election integrity commission is. led by the king of crossed . himself former secretary of state from kansas kris kobach it's a blatant attempt at a national voter suppression campaign but according to my next guest the bipartisan resistance forseen to the states and the commission's data request isn't what a scene is joining me now is greg palast investigative reporter and creator of the new documentary the best democracy money can buy a tale of billionaires and banded ballots pallas welcome back. be with you tom so first off can you explain for us a little more detail about what the specific voter data the trump is or the trump administration co back is asking for and why do they want that data and why is it such a big deal for them to be asking for ok number one what they want is the entire voter files of all fifty states you know your name last four numbers of your social security number your address your voting history your party prefe

the elector commission, fighting voter fraud. some states refusing to turn over information like dates of birth and last four digits of social security numbers. some worried about voter suppression. the white house calling that backlash, a political stunt. while the president has tweeted about that this weekend, he's tweeted about what's happening on the foreign policy front, too, hinting it calls, today, with the leaders of germany and france, with plenty of headlines coming up this week. the president spoke with the heads of china and japan about the threat from north korea, something that will almost certainly come up when he leaves for his second international trip this week to the g-20 summit in germany. that will also be his first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. a lot going on this week. >> hallie jackson, thank you. >>> for more on the president's latest jacksons, we're joined by elise jordan. good morning to you. >> hi. >> the president has gone after the media via twitter. and occasionally cnn specifically. wha

you had hacker group called the binary guardians, hack the electoral commission. we will take control of the cyber networks of the country and left a message. and the resistance, they are now firebombing people. the opposition is fracturing into violent radical side. stuart: in which case we have a civil war? >> yes. stuart: either very close or started, right? >> it is starting. it started over the weekend. stuart: this is terrible situation. it is on our doorstep. >> yes, it is on our doorstep. venezuela is still the third largest supplier of oil to the united states after saudi arabia and canada. and was -- stuart: i have got to go. thank you very much indeed. i have to run to this. we just got the tape from the cabinet meeting. >> from the homeland there what he has done is nothing short of miraculous. the border was a problem. now close to 80% steppage. the president of mexico their southern border very few people are coming because they know they will not get through our border which is the ultimate compliment. i want to congratulate him on the great job he

and our state's right to protect the privacy of our citizens by conducting our own electoral processes. the commissiond to hold their first meeting on julw much information they are able to get, they may have to adjust the strategy going forward. kelly five strong statements the other. garrett reporting from washington, thank you sir. laura: know under former advisor to bill clinton and the fox news container also chris wilson, former campaign poster for senator ted cruz and the founder and ceo of wpa intelligence. they are here to discuss what is very important issue. doug, i want to start with you. thank you gentlemen for being here. there have been significant backlash on this request from both sides as we heard and garrett's report. on both sides of the aisle. what do you think is all this warranted? >> i think the bipartisan concern is totally warranted. we have privacy laws, the states are set up in our system to guard and protect and administer elections and there has been no showing of any systematic voter fraud and in the absence of that, i think we should protect the sanctity of our electora

. >>> well, the commission on electoral integrity, which has faced widespread criticism is getting downed the committee's opening meeting yesterday, and while he continued to raise the possibility of substantial voter fraud in the 2016 election, he did not repeat past claims that millions of illegal ballots were cast. the president did raise the possibility that turned states refusing to cooperate fully with the request for voter information may be trying to hide something. >> i'm pleased that more than 30 states have already agreed to share the information with the commission, and the other states that information will be forthcoming. if any state does not want to share this information, one has to wonder what they're worried about, and i ask the vice president -- i asked the commission what are they worried about? there's something. there always is. >> the commission's meeting is vice chairman and secretary of state chris -- who raised new doubts while speaking with msnbc over whether hillary clinton actually won the popular vote. >> do you think he won the popular vote by three milli

electoral system. explore the vulnerabilities in our system that could lead to improper voter registration and in proper voting. this commission, let me be clear. this commission has no preconceived notions or pre-ordained results. we are factfinders. in the days ahead we will cow to the facts and data. at the conclusion we will present the president with a report of our findings. i am confident this commission will have a healthy and robust debate. the president and i expect nothing less because respectful debate is a hallmark of our democracy. i know we will find many areas of common ground. the commission has already requesting work, publicly available data. we are grateful for the more than 30 states that have indicated their intention to provide the information. the first of several meetings the commission will hold. today we will hear from each of the commission's members. unique you brings a perspective based on your experience and research. we welcome your participation and insight. i would like to note our commission includes five current .nd former secretary of state we look forward to working with each one of you. t

electoral system, our democracy. earlier this week, i called upon him to give us a vote on this independent commission. outside independent commission to investigate the ties to russia. what do the russians have politically or financially and any personally on donald trump? that he fonds over putin, questions sanctions, is reckless when it comes to article five of nato, the list goes on and on. people have a right to know. maybe it will clear the air. maybe it won't. we know one thing for sure, we have a responsibility to make sure that russia does not meddle in our elections again. that would be the purpose of such an investigation. i mentioned calling upon the speaker to give us a vote on independent commission, i also called to the revoking of the security clearance for jared kushner. that is absolutely ridiculous that he should have had that clearance. it is not justified in any way. the president could revoke it and he should. republicans in congress should stop hiding from the truth and stop hiding the truth from the american people. in light of the actions this week, the emails that we saw a rel

he's one of the leaders of the commission on electoral integrity. which yesterday got down to work. well, the commission exists because donald trump had said early on that he was going to get a commission and the purpose of the commission regardless of anything else anybody else said was to justify his outrageous claims that hillary clinton stole 3 million votes, and that he actually was the winner of the popular vote. this, of course, is outrageous. nobody has ever suggested that was the case. i will give kris kobach who i have been critical of over the past several months, credit for si consiste consistency. he said perhaps hillary clinton didn't get as many votes as reported and said the same thing about donald trump. kris kobach is saying it is quite possible that donald trump does not even deserve to be president of the united states. that perhaps those votes -- maybe donald trump had enough improper votes in wisconsin and michigan and ohio and pennsylvania, maybe he shouldn't even be president out united states. for his appointee, kris kobach to be saying that yesterday i foun

the integrity of our electoral system and we will also explore the vulnerabilities in our system that could lead to improper voter registration and even improper voting. this commission -- let me be clear, this commission has no preconceived notions or preordained results. we are factfinders and in the days ahead we will gather the relevant facts and data and at the conclusion of our work we will present the president with a report of our findings. i am confident the commission will have a healthy and robust debate and the president and i expect nothing less because respectable debate is a hallmark of our democracy. i expect nothing less. we are grateful for the more than 30 states of already indicated their intention to provide this information pursuant to the laws of their states. today is the first of several meetings in commission will hold. we will hear from each of the commission's members. each of you bring a unique perspective based on expense and research and we welcome your purchase patient and insight. our commission includes five current and former secretaries of state and secretary cavaco and i look forward to see working with each one of you. we wish to

many people who might have died in the past are still on the electoral roll and people are voting on their behalf. to that end, the commission states. they are asking for very personal information about the voters, the 200 million voters across the us. they want their names, their addresses, their birthdates and crucially the last four digits of their social security numbers but some states have real concerns. first of all, they wonder how this information can be kept safe if they send it to washington and they sent it to the commission. they say this information will be ripe for hackers. they say the cyber security on it is not safe. 0thers believe this entire investigation is unnecessary and violates the privacy of those within these states. those are some of the reasons they are saying they will not comply. let me give you a couple of quotes, from california for instance, a democratic state, the secretary of state said, "california's participation would only serve to legitimise "the false and a bunked claims of voter fraud by the president." "the false and debunked claims of voter fraud by the president." however, it is n