host: ken cuccinelli is now the chair of the election transparency initiative. you can learn more about the organization if you go to electiontransparency.org for more. thank you for the conversation. ken: good to be with you. host: we will take a break and rap with your top news stories of the week. the supreme court yesterday announcing they oppose president biden's vexing mandate for large employers but they kept in place mandate for certain health-care workers and you had the voting rights debate that has happened all week and we talked about that this morning and u.s.-russia tensions as russia tells u.s. officials they may be done with diplomatic talks in the january 6 select many announcing they have subpoenas social media companies and representative kevin mccarthy who says he wont cooperate with that panel. on that last story, take a look at what cnn just posted. they found and kevin mccarthy said publicly and privately in the days following the capitol riot's that president trump admitted personally bearing some responsibility. they said mccarthy share t

host: ken cuccinelli is now the chair of the election transparency initiative. electiontransparency.org for more. thank you for the conversation. ken: good to be with you. host: we will take a break and when we come back, we hear from the other side. from the naacp, derek johnson is here. >> american history tv, saturdays on c-span two, exploring the people and events that tell the american story. two programs on how presidents influence the early space race. and at 2:50 p.m. eastern, the book mercury rising and the new battleground of the cold war. and at 355 p.m. eastern, a discussion on the history of the filibuster. exploring the american story. c-span.org/history. >> browse through our latest collection of c-span products, apparel, books, home decor. there is something for every c-span fan. help support our nonprofit operation. shop now or anytime at c-span shop -- c-spanshop.org. sunday, february six on in-depth, georgetown university law professor cheryl cassian will be here to talk about race relations and in committee in america. in her latest, white spa

we are talking with ken cuccinelli, former deputy secretary for homeland security the trump administrationhe's the former virginia attorney general and served from 2010 to 2014. you heard the president and democrats argue that the state laws that have been enacted after the 2020 election suppress and subvert the vote because of who they say gets to count the vote. are there any state laws that you think have gone too far? ken: i can't think of any in the last year which is what i assume you are referring to because that is the target of the president's attacks. you have seen a banning of private money coming into government to essentially take over the government function of running elections. 10 states have banned that. i can't believe the other 40 have not. it's like being allowed to pay the referee in your basketball game. it's crazy. those have been among the more controversial items. cleaning up the voter rolls, knocking dead people off the voter rolls. that is a federal requirement as well. there are voter role maintenance requirements if i remember correctly. the help america vote a

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