however a quick look at the state of our voting systems in the federal elections commission and you'd see that the integrity and sanctity of those systems. really quite cut of the top priority for us to the federal elections commission or f.e.c. which supposedly serves as a bipartisan watchdog for sort of campaign finance laws here in the u.s. well thanks to president trump and the u.s. senate in action on appointing new f.e.c. members as of august 31st the commission will no longer have enough commissioners to legally meet you has my friends the new york times is reporting that the resignation of vice chairman map us peterson will effectively freeze the f.e.c. is governance leaving it one person short of a quorum and then and thus unable to take on some of its most basic actions including holding board meetings starting audit for making new rules in levying fines for campaign finance violations but that's not the only election issues facing the country we also saw this tweet featuring a video of an electronic voting machine malfunction in mississippi go viral reminding us all that as

country one would think that however a quick look at the state of our voting systems in the federal election commission and you'd see that the integrity and sanctity of those systems. isn't really quite cut it as a top priority for us to take the federal elections commission or f.e.c. which supposedly serves as a bipartisan watchdog in force or of campaign fine.

however a quick look at the state of our voting systems in the federal elections commission and you'de that the integrity and sanctity of those systems. are really quite cut of the top priority for us take the federal elections commission or f.e.c. which supposedly serves as a bipartisan watchdog for sort of campaign finance laws here in the u.s. well thanks to president trump and the u.s. senate in action on appointing new f.e.c. members as of august 31st the commission will no longer have enough commissioners to legally meet you has my friends the new york times is reporting that the resignation of vice chairman map us peterson will affect the belief freeze the f.e.c. is governance leaving it one person short of a quorum and then and thus unable to take on some of its most basic actions including holding board meetings starting audits making new rules in levying fines for campaign finance violations but that's not the only election issues facing the country we also saw this tweet featuring a video of an electronic voting machine malfunction in mississippi go viral reminding us all t

this is the complaint right here, now in the hands of the federal election commission in and it allegesultiple improprieties. married minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar is accused of having an affair with a married political consultant. the wife of the consultants made the allegation in court paperwork this week, served as an advisor to omar's campaign last year and his wife says he had an affair with the congresswoman. it is money that is the center of this complaint filed wednesday morning with the federal election commission. the national legal and policy center, conservative leaning nonprofit government watchdog argues that she violated a 1971 law. the group alleges omar's campaign paid used the group to cover travel expenses. according to the filing elon for congress. the group north of $21,000 for travel from april to june of this year. those expenses were not itemized in the proper way. in an email to fox news, an attorney representing both omar's campaign and the street road quote, any accusation that our clients acted to skirt the law in any way is falls and completely unfounde

>> well we've asked for an investigation by the federal election commission. f the election. if it's willful, it's possibleer it could trigger an investigation by the justice department and we do hope that takes place. but in our complaint we cited two things. number one, the failure to itemize travel by this consultant named tim mynett, the federal election commission's regulation is worth specifically about travel. you have to report as individual disbursements any amount over $200 in the aggregate. your hotel, your airfare, whatever, but omar on her report simply reported lump-sum payments to an llc owned by tim mynett, which is a clear violation. that sounds technical and it sounds a little nitpicking, but as an ethics group, we always look for technical violations in hopes of finding out the more serious improper activity that they are calculated to conceal. >> tucker: this stuff hangs on technicalities. if that's what it is. it's an accumulation. so omar, in addition to being, i would say ideologically on the wrong side, seems very sleazy. every time. you

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to earn this label tax id numbers a government domain name and federal election commission number are required. >>> facebook has been under fire since the 2016 election. the ceo pledged to fix how it handles political advertising. the new rules go into effect and mid-september. facebook said if an advertiser doesn't provide information by mid-october it will pause and organizations ads. >>> the live news desk list take you to southern california los angeles. that is a car chase. that just concluded a little while ago. the two suspects in this vehicle driving erratically. being chased by police through the community of bell gardens. you can see them hopping over speed bumps like they don't exist going in and out of alleys. trying to ad at one point they started throwing things out of the car. the robbery suspects then hit the street by foot. they started hopping over fences. and climbing up onto rooftops. e beevedbea male. who is looking that is too high to john. she hops over onto another roof and then onto the roof of that car. i'm sure the driver of that car appreciated that. then b

it's in the hands of the federal election commission and it alleges multiple improprieties. omar is accused of having an affair with the married dc-based political consultant. the wife of that consultant made the allegation court paperwork released this week. tim mynett served as an advisor to omar's campaign last year and now his wife that he had an affair with the congresswoman. it's money that's the center of this complaint filed wednesday morning with the federal election commission. the national legal and policy center, a conservative leaning nonprofit government watchdog, argues she violated a 1971 law. the group alleges that omar's campaign paid mynett's company thousands of dollars to cover travel expenses. according to the filing, ilhan for congress paid north of $22,000 for travel. the expenses were not itemized in the proper way. in an email to fox news, an attorney representing omar's campaign and the company wrote "any accusation made that our clients act discovered the law delight anyways absently false and completely unfounded." the complaint does nothing more

agency that's in charge of enforcing election law, enforcing campaign finance law, the fec, federal election commission, they've long been a fairly toothless government agency. the trump administration, for example, has been content with there being vacancies on the board of commissioners that oversees the fec. today, though, it went to a different level. today we learned the fec is about to lose one of its existing commissioners. when that happens, the fec will no longer have enough commissioners to have a quorum, which means heading into the 2020 presidential season, the federal agency that's in charge of making sure there's no monkey business in our elections, that there's no monkey business, no shenanigans in terms of money around our elections, they have just had their last tooth pulled. and there has been a lot of alarm expressed in response to this news this afternoon in terms of what this means for the fec, what this means for the 2020 election. one of the remaining commissioners on the fec, the chair of the fec, has actually been sounding a little bit of a cautionary note today about the impli

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i would use the federal electing commission on day one. there are 126 emergency powers of the presidency. i would urge the federal election commission to have much greater transparency and much more finds. would i change the rules of the senate? if it were up to me, which it isn't, sure, i would. but that's a question for the senate. >> the ground game in iowa is very different. , what isur message your strategy in iowa to get some of the moderate democrats and maybe even some trump supporters on your side? mr. steyer: if you look at my background, i was in the private sector for a long time. i know what works economically around the world. for anyone who's interested in making sure the economy keeps going and that the person in charge is sophisticated, knowledgeable, has made it work for decades. that's me. if you want the person who has actually worked in the private what built apn l, business, what works around the world politically and economically, that's me. if you want someone to take on trump economics. that's my meat and potatoes f

. >> the federal election commission is pushing back against the president's claims of voter fraud in the 2016 election. trump tweeted yesterday, quote, wow, reports just out. google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for hillary clinton in the 2016 election. this was put out by a clinton supporter, not a trump supporter. google should be sued. my victory was even bigger than thought. >> oh, my goodness. >> nothing is bigger than thought. according to a "washington post" analyst trump appears to be references a study by psychologist robert epstein whose testimony before the senate judiciary committee last month was featured in a segment on fox business moments before the president fired off his tweet. while epstein identifies himself as a democrat who backed clinton, that's a convenient figure since clinton won by about 2.9 million votes nationally. but "the post" points out that's not what epstein said in his testimony. he estimated a range of 2.6 to 10.4 million votes with 15 million votes being the possible shift in 2020. that's 2.6 million estimate he said was the ro

united states regards to our voting systems i'll start with you jesse how bad is it that our federal election commission the f.e.c. will essentially essentially be toothless come august 31st the stuff coming sunday because no one has bothered to appoint new commissioners to these 6 person group. well as i see it and what i'm looking at i've heard more and more that the trumpet ministration really came in very unprepared for the massive job that they had put in front of them and that was being the president being the executive branch of government it doesn't then there are there's all sorts of places that where things are not being filled this positions not being filled that position. while all of this isn't happening what is being filled you know things are trumps response and you know fights with the media fight with this sending out all the messages on a daily basis instead of bearing down and doing the job that he was elected to do and part of that job is the responsibility of filling those positions it was overwhelming filling them all or simply the governor of minnesota you can imagine what it's li

the weaponize the federal election commission, it provided for the voting age to go down to 16.t paved the way for the district of columbia to become a state which would create two new democratic senators. there was a lot in their that certainly these republicans would find and having nothing to do with election security and clearly partisan in their intent. at the end of the day, they felt comfortable saying no to that. and some of these other issues i think the question is whether it is possible to bridge what is basically a partisan and on issues like immigration and gun violence so that we can do something that would be productive for the american people. i just don't know if setting aside where republicans are, i don't know the democrats want to give this president a win on just about anything, even if it helps to solve a problem. host: talk about how the democrats will affect the ticket. you are probably looking very array oft this democratic candidate and how it may impact your candidates. can you talk about that, knowing who is out there and who may have being the nomine

. >>> the federal election commission is telling facebook, twitter, and google to a meeting next month. new forms of russian style social media manipulation. minimize the disruption and confusion from fraudulent news and propaganda during elections. >>> let's take a look at the markets. stocks are mixed. lossesout weighed gains. the market is on track to post solid gains for the week but finish with a loss. it's just below sea level losing 22 points. the story is similar on the s&p 500 down a quarter of a percent and in dakota by a half. >>> conditions of the people who escaped the house in los gatos. >>> and packing up and hitting the road. highway24 looked okay a short time ago. kind of a different story for emeryville in berkeley. it's getting sluggish on the east shore. we're back after the break. los gatos %f0 %f0 >>> welcome back. a live picture from daytona beach. there was a shot of flags whipping around in daytona beach. hurricane dorian is not expected to hit until monday but because the flags were whipping around. you could tell the strong, gusty winds have reached the flori

. >> tim, you seem to miss a crucial point, federal elect commission and federal law donor names ande public record. now whether this is wise or advise able for another 1 date tcandidate to use public information and draw people's attention to it there is nothing about this that is a privacy issue, all of us. who donate to a campaign or to a candidate has to give your name, place of work, and that is a public record. all this stuff about, there being outed, they are not outed they are public. there is no expectation of privacy by law. we say that we don't want foreign people giving money. we want to know whether or not it is above the legal threshold there is a little bit of excessive labeling here. >> no one is claims this is not public information it is. what the campaign did was collected all one place put all names and bor workplace togethen one document and tweeted out, and said at same take these people are fueling trump campaign, they are shute she aby opposed this is an open invitation to their supporters to harass and intimidate and perhaps inflation violence, no one said th

and federal election commission about foreign offers of assistance, because they didn't want to "federalizeelections. no, they're going to stick with kremlinizing them. ( laughter ) but the president did put out this election p.s.a. on what you should do if a foreign government offers to help your campaign: >> i don't think in my whole life i've ever called the f.b.i. in my whole life. you don't call the f.b.i. "oh, let me call the f.b.i." give me a break. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: good to know. it's a public service. public service announcement. today, the president welcomed his newly confirmed defense secretary, mark esper, with a special ceremony at the pentagon, and the president gushed about esper's credentials: >> mark attended the united states military academy at west point, graduated in 1986. he was awarded the bronze star and the combat infantroopen badge. ( laughter ) >> stephen: "infantroopen?" what is infantroopen? that sounds like the name of a german police unit comprised of little babies. ( laughter ) "deploy das infantroopen fur dem kinderblitz!" ( la

bronx but it appears feeling may not be mutual according to a daily caller analysis is federal election commission ten people from her district new york 14th, have actually contradicted to her reelection campaign. revealing that 1500 dollars aoc received from her new york constituent represents less than 1% of her campaigns itemized contribution for part of the first half of 2019. i wonder why all of this outside money is coming from. shots fired at a i.c.e. building in san antonio, texas earlier this week. the fbi brought in to investigate. all of the shots that we have found are on the floors where i.c.e. had offices. so this is no question a targeted attack. the fire into any building let alone a federal facility is not an act of protest. it is an act of violence that could have resulted in the assassination of a federal employee. that will not be accepted here in san antonio. >> didn't really hear that much about this in a press this week did you? now officials there blame political rhetoric and miss information on the attack . which is the fourth incident the a i.c.e. facility just in the las

government issued credentials to plus an ad that includes a tax id number, an email address or a federal election commission. advertisers not recognized by the government will need to show their contact information. users will see an icon with each ad explaining more about the advertiser. ads that don't comply by mid october will be removed. >>> 16 women who accused jeffrey epstein of sexual abuse and trafficking testified in a knock courtroom to tell their stories. new york courtroom to tell their stories. a judge chose to hold the hearing to give the alleged victim as chance to speak. >> it does not end their feelings that they were manipulated and victimized and they were child victims of mr. epstein. >> the case has not officially been dismissed. the defense asked to investigate how he died along with the i have alleged victims. >>> taliban says sit is chose to reach an agreement to end the 18-year war this afghanistan. according to reuters negotiations have been going on for a year and the 9th round of talks began last week amount spokesman if the taliban political office says cog to the deal on the ta

the federal election commission is summoning facebook, goggle and twitter to a meeting next month on digital disinformation. the scc said it's concerned that new forms of russian style social media manipulation will target the 2020 elect. the commissions the goal of the meeting is to identify effective ways to minimize the disruption and confusion from what it calls fraudulent news and propaganda during the 2020 elect. >> and time is 7:39. south bend, end end, mayor, pete buttigieg is one of several presidentual candidates showing solidarity with the ride share drivers o. tuesday, he joined protestors outside of uber's headquarters in san francisco. he proposed expanding national union regulations to cover gig economy workers. he spoke to alex michaelson for this week's episode of "the issue is." >> i think it's great technology and great potential. but if the only way we're making rides more affordable and accessible is by making other people miserable, namely drivers, then something is wrong. >> buttigieg hopes to boost sent ahead of next month's presidential debate in houston. a re

the federal election commission is pushing back against the president's claims of voter fraud. report just out google manipulated 2.6 million to 16 million votes for hillary clinton. this was put out by a clinton supporter, not a trump supporter. they should be sued. according to a washington post analysis, trump appears to be referencing a is study whose testimony before the committee last month was featured in a segment on fox business. the post points outs that not what he said in the testimony. he estimated a range of 2.6 to 10.4 million with 15 million being the possible shift in 2020. that 2.6 million estimate was the rock bottom estimate. epstein identifies himself as a democrat who backed clinton. that is a convenient figure since clinton won by 2.9 million nationally. at a rally, trump told reporters that voter fraud cost him four state votes. it was said there is no evidence to support the claims. >> there is no evidence of rampent voter fraud in 2016 or any previous election. they've studied this, the lawyers, the government, democrats, republicans have studied this.

hours ilhan omar has been fighting back a media and legal firestorm set in motion when the federal election commission. that campaign comes from a policy center, a right-leaning nonprofit group, alleges that she had a extramarital affair with a washington consulted while she was running for congress and that her campaign reimbursed that same consultant, tens of thousands of dollars in travel. caught off guard yesterday she told her affiliate in a north minneapolis grocery store to talk to the hand. >> you understand what no comment means? >> are you dodging the question? >> she quickly had her talking point in order. >> i will just say i have no interest in commenting on anything that you are about to ask about my personal life. you can chase me all you want. >> earlier this week the wife filed reports that her husband had an affair while serving as an advisor to her congressional campaign, then last night the nl pc filed its claim that between april and june of this year, her campaign reimbursed a company owned by tim, over $21,000 for expenses without itemizing them. >> the violations about reportin

the federal election commission said complaints only lead to investigation if there is enough evidenceck them up. in this case, the issue is to political action committees were attacked that he started to support a progressive candidate. the allegation is that more than a million dollars was funneled from the political action committee into two private companies that are controlled by trucker vardy. of course, packs are subject to a very tight rules on spending and fund-raising that private companies are not subject to. alexandria ocasio-cortez denied there was any wrongdoing and says this is nothing more than quote, conservative interest groups filing bogus proposals. aoc's office says chuck roberti resigned as chief of staff to wa nonprofit on the green new deal. >> sean: thank you. now, those far new look left is trying to be drawn by any means definitely necessary. if policies that a lawyer, you, we, the american people. don't believe me? go to bill morrow who is saying he is hoping, praying, rooting for a recession. i guess it won't affect his job you're not going to affect his li

out that the names of all of the donors are public information freely available from the federal elections commission neil: jonathan, thank you very much. pick sure if you're a conservative and you don't like someone who gives to a liberal cause but you love the product they make, i.e. ben & jerry's. or if you are a liberal bent and you don't like an establishment whose biggest investor gets to donald trump. is it worth boycotting or is it just worth -- saying i'm not too keen on it and leave it at that. madison is here. also fox news contributor jessica tarlov. jessica, i think it's obnoxious either way. >> i don't think stephen ross is having to ruin. people expressing their first amendment rights. people who work for him, yes absolutely. i am an avid soulcycle member. the class was demonstrably less crowded than it usually is. i asked people at the front desk of this is due to the boycott and they said no it was a substitute teacher. i'm not sure. there's been stories about how many people have frozen their equinox memberships or cancel them. it's obviously a real situation here. the problem is th

joining us now is the democratic member and current chair of the federal election commission. you for being here. i appreciate your making time. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> help me understand what you mean about the distance between what the fec, what you and your colleagues could have done here and what has been done. you say your republican colleagues made sure the fec would barely lift a finger to look into this. what could they have done versus what they did do? >> we could have done an investigation. the fec has a process. anybody can file a complaint with the fec, and our lawyers will review it and then the commission gets to decide whether we're actually going to investigate or not. and the reason -- what happened today was the file was made public that showed that the fec did not do any investigation in this case. did not take the most basic step of even calling the fbi. the complaint was based on that article which said the fbi was investigating. so i said to my colleagues, well, let's at least call the fbi and ask them. and then we'll know whether the arti

the federal election commission is supposed to watch how money is spent on elections in this country,ecause they themselves don't add up. on monday the vice chair, matthew peterson tendered his resignation. he's leaving at the end of the month. with two seats already vacant, that will leave only three out of the six commissioner spots filled. the fdc needs four for a quorum in order to do, well, basically anything, hold meetings, make new rules, audit or fine campaigns. you may have heard we are in the midst of a campaign season at this very moment, so we need to fill these seats, people, hello, campaigns aren't going to regulation themselves, are they? where do we get new commissioners you might nomina firms. so to put it another way the agency that regulates elected officials cannot function until it's allowed to do so by the officials it regulates and therein lies the rub. the fec is not really in the accountability business. it's in the illusion of accountability business. the white house and congress in control of who gets on that board how could it be otherwise? by the way, imag

including the commission chaired by mike pence produced any evidence and handed over to you the federal election commissiond in new hampshire or california rather placed in 2016? >> no. and i'm not aware of them handing any evidence over to the local law enforcement authorities who would have jurisdiction over what happened in their own states. it's -- in fact, i've heard from folks at the state and local level who wereoffended by this. they thought it was insulting to the way they ran their elections in each and every state to suggest that they would allow this kind of rampant voter fraud to go on. i've heard from people who said, you know, i was at the polling stations. there were no buses. we didn't have room in the parking lots for these kinds of buses. and this kind of information really to put out information that has no proof, has no evidence behind it, it's damaging to our democracy. >> how? >> it causes paeople to lose faith. it causes people to question the results. we have some threats to our democracy right now. there are threats from abroad that our national intelligence community has been war

funding their ads, including either their tax id number, a government website domain, or federal election commissionnow, all of this is just facebook's latest move to protect the 2020 election from any manipulation and also to ramp up transparency about who is on the platform and what they're doing and what they're spending money on. back over to you, melissa. >> julia, thank you. julia boorstin >>> how many candidates on the democratic side? >> 20 but whittling down. >> still counting. >> so that's a huge -- >> and a mayor. >> a lot of spenting. >> and it worked in the last election everybody is saying if you do the digital ad spending, it works. i think facebook gets a tail wind from it the name in the social that i like that looks like it wants to break out is the twitter machine, twtr. that's the one you buy on a breakout. >> i think facebook is just -- their core business is working so, i mean, you are seeing ecommerce. you are seeing actually leading commercial usage, instagram finally starting to pay dividends. i think if you are going to make the election kind of tail wind argument for faceb

ellen chairs the federal election commission. we should point out sates on her fec biography she's a democrat. she has written him a letter challenging the president to provide evidence to back up his voter fraud claim and i'm quoting to put it in terms a kascasino operator should you believed there comes to time to lay your cards on the table or fold. ellen joins us. have you gotten any kind of response, any slhred of evidenc, documentation of these that flooded into new hampshire and the locations only the president seems to know? >> i have not. i don't think anybody has. this has you know is not a new claim for the president. couple years ago he made the same claim and i asked him then if he had evidence for it because if it were true, there were thousands of felonies committed and law enforcement ought to be pursuing that but there is no evidence brought forth at all, not then, not now and i think it is really damaging to our democracy to have these kinds of stories put forth by the leader of our country. >> right and i mean,

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ trish: new figures from the federal election commission shows 60% of money raisedall donors. the left would like you to believe that it's just the 1%, the big corporations that are funding the president. but that's actually not true. time and time again, it has shown that the silent majority is a whole lot more prevalent than you might think, right? that's why he won. joining me right now fox news contributor deneen borelli and democrat capri cafaro. i'm going to go you first, ms. borelli. they say, oh, it's all small donors backing the dems, but the facts show something quite otherwise. why don't the polls then indicate that, you know, this is the president that stands a good shot at re-election when he's recognized by mom and pop types? >> yeah. well, the polls aren't right or correct in 2016, so why would they be right now? i mean -- i'm sorry? trish: is it pressure? in other words, i think a lot of these people, they may e be donating, but they're not telling their friends, just hike they're not telling the pollsters that they're voting for trump. >> sure. yeah

the federal election commission said complaints only lead to investigation if there is enough evidencehem up. in this case, the issue is two political action committees or pacs that he started to support progressive candidates. the allegation is that more thae a million dollars was funneled from the political actionmi committees into two private companies that are controlled by him. of course, pacs are subject to a very tight rules on spendingg and fund-raising that private companies are not subject to. alexandria ocasio-cortez denied there was any wrongdoing and says this is nothing more than "conservative interest groups filing bogus proposals." aoc's office says charkabarti resigned as chief of staff to help a nonprofit work on the green new deal. >> sean: thank you. now the far new look left is trying to beat president trump by any means necessary in 2020, even if it involves policies that hurt you, we come of the american people. let's go to hpr's bill maher, the patriotic man again, who says he's hoping, praying, rooting for a recession. i guess it won't affect his job not going

. >> nbc news analyzed federal elections commissions data and found that political groups spent moreat the hotel since the start of 2017. and since the first year of the trump presidency the hotel charged the secret service close to $200,000 in taxpayer money according to tax documents obtained by nbc news under the freedom of information act. it all depends on an obscure word found in the first i second articles of the constitution. emolument. constitutional law scholar john mcholeeil explains why. >> it's a very unusual world. we're talking about whether the presidency can be turned into a cash register for donald trump. the word emolument appears three times in the constitution. this is the foreign emoluments clause and you can see it's very elaborately written but the word any is written four times indicating the founders wanted to be sweeping and all encompassing. >> jacob, how are you? >> this is carl, the attorney general of washington, d.c., a democrat who along with the attorney general of maryland, democrat brian frosch three amolument lawsuits against donald trump. >> ther

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i would urge the federal election commission to have much more transparency. we need to change the rules of the senate. if it were up to me, sure, i would. but that's a question for the senate. >> the ground game in iowa is very different. what is your strategy in iowa to get some of the moderate democrats and maybe even some trump supporters on your side? if you look at my background, i was in the private sector for a long time. i know it works economically around the world. -- what works economically around the world. we need to make sure the person in charge is sophisticated, knowledgeable, has made it work for decades. if you want the person who has actually worked in the private sector and knows where to invest, where not to invest, what works around the world politically and economically, that's me. >> how are you planning to use your organization? >> those are separate organizations and they will be separate. i will continue to make sure .hey keep going they are both important, but they have to be separate. thing they both do is show what i will do, tak

and dave on the federal elections commission. watch at 7:30 this morning. join the discussion. >> watch book tv for live coverage of the national book festival. today starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. our coverage includes author interviews with ruth bader ginsburg. david troyer of wounded knee. campaign 2020, watch our candidates on the campaign trail and make up your own mind. campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. president trump is spending part of the weekend at camp david. as he was leaving the white house, he took reporters questions on a range of issues including preparations for hurricane dorian, china, the economy and protests in congress hmong. this is about 25 minutes.

conservative-leaning nonprofit government watchdog filed a formal complaint about omar with the federal election commissiong. i took a look at this complaint this afternoon. the group alleges that omar's campaign paid the company e street group thousands of dollars to cover travel expenses. according to the filing, ilhan for congress, paid the group north of $21,000 of travel from april to june of this year. those expenses were not itemize itemized. fec rules do not allow candidates or sitting members of congress to use campaign funds to pay for personal travel. if they do, those personal funds must be used to reimburse the campaign. i reached out to both the easter group in the congresswoman's campaign to learn more about the accusations. in the last 90 seconds i got a response from a d.c. farmer represents both the campaign and the group. i will read in part. it says "any accusation that our clients acted to skirt the law in any way it is absolutely false and completely unfounded." bret. >> bret: okay, david, thank you. former obama white house counsel greg craig says he did not lie to justice department

joining me is someone whose job is to make that happen, the head of the federal elections commission, ellen weintraub. hello, ellen. come on in. have a seat. i think if you opine to open the electoral college, you'll probably get fired or removed. let me ask you this. i imagine at the fec you have as a rememberer to body, you have interactions with other regulatory bodies. you talk about our system and other systems. what do people say from other countries when you're talking about the electoral college? >> well, chris, we do get a lot of folks from other country, particularly developing democracies come here to learn, to find out how her democracy works. when i have to explain the electoral college, i always get this perplexed look. >> it's like a tennis match. if you win the set, then you get all the points. >> and then they say but why do people accept that? and what i have historically said is well, in the end, it usually doesn't matter. historically, most elections, the person who wins the electoral college is also the person who wins the popular vote, so everybody is happy. but

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spend money in elections to legal action committee for trial under the auspices of the federal election commission, at those political action committees have very strict limits on who they could raise money from an advocate raise money and how to be transparent at the donations they could get the acyclic citizens united says these are unconscious of the violations of local speech and his other entities. people don't appreciate was ejected in the same sense, we talked about the pipefitters union. when talking about general electric. were talking about individuals who set up corporate entity under the irs tax code, raise a ton or just put on my into it and come it put in a bunch of television advertisement that in many respects the camping advertisement i candidate could find. those advertisements tend to be almost universally negative, and tend to be how should we say, play fast and loose with the facts i don't want to say lie. they have greeted interpretation of the truth. or they don't tell the whole story. so what happens is, and again you also have individuals who don't have any particular conn

congressman joe kennedy has filed a statement of candidacy with the federal elections commission, a possiblemary challenge against incumbent democrat senator edward markey. the 38-year-old kennedy is in his fourth term in the house and had previously indicated plans to seek reelection next year. markey is 73 and running for a second full term in the senate after serving more than three decades in the house. up next, investigating what may be the first ever crime in spac space. we will explain. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. box 53 in pittsburgh where federal prosecutors want a man accused of killing 11 people in a synagogue to face a death sentence. the u.s. attorney's office in pittsburgh has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against 46-year-old robert bowers. he has pleaded not guilty and awaits trial. fox 5 in new york as movie mogul harvey weinstein pleads not guilty to an indictment that adds two new charges of predatory sexual assault to his upcoming new york trial. prosecutors say the new indictment was needed to

. ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 save at trelegy.com >>> when every seat is taken, the federal election commission hasng party lines. three republicans and three democrats. that hasn't happened for a while. one democratic commissioner left in april 2017, then a republican commissioner left in early 2018. neither of them was replaced. that left the fec with four members which is the bare minimum you need for a quorum. the federal board that oversees u.s. election law haslem off li along with four. they are known for not getting much done in a few days. they did have four members. they did have a quorum. as of today they won't have that. republican fec commissioner matthew peterson announced he, too, is stepping down from his job as commissioner of the fec. that will be in effect as of this weekend. that will mean the fec will be down to three members which is not a quorum. heading right into the 2020 election when i'm sure there will be nothing to worry about in terms of election law in campaign finance and election irregularities. there is a explicit set of rules for what the fec can do when they don'