proud to serve with sam and was happy, when he asked me digital's the social security or hr 1513 that requires social security administration to remove beneficiaries' social security numbers from melting notices. and mr. johnson and everybody on the committee does is such an incredible gentleman, we have taken every opportunity in the subcommittee to renew a request that i hope the committee will travel to plano, texas and that we have an opportunity to inasmuch is mr. johnson has indicated it is his last term to have a meeting and plano, texas -- in plano, texas that would honor mr. johnson and this area that we are so vitally concerned about. i also want to recognize chairman heard who is with us and the lead democrat, robert kelly, for being here in our meeting room as well. since 2014, hundreds of millions of americans have lost their personally identifiable information including social security numbers through large-scale cyber attacks. the number was originally created in 1936 for the purpose of running the nation's new social security system. his usefulness as a unique it nearer has made ubiquitous across government

basic nuts and bolts of what this guy was up to but there were two people within the social security administration office who'd been whistle blowing for years that they suspected something was going on but this particular guy the people involved what what does this mean for his clients what are the repercussions for. clones sounds like it could be the rooster that is it's tragic in a lot of ways in fact there's an attorney two attorneys that are representing different clusters of his clients he had about seventeen hundred clients i'd say and that they are suing him in one part to get because they said that he did all this unbeknownst to them many of them have lost their disability payments altogether the government's freezing them forced them to go back through the process to get those kinds of valuated some people have kept their benefits others have lost them totally others are on hold until their cases are evaluated and some people seven people seven former clients and now committed suicide because those payments have been stopped and basically that's their only source of income i thought was i

doesn't issue reform they won't have enough money to pay everyone's social security checks according to the social security administration trust funds will be depleted by two thousand and thirty four meaning only seventy seven percent of benefits will be payable and before that in two thousand and twenty eight the disability insurance trust fund will be depleted with only ninety three percent of benefits payable right now social security does take in more than it pays out but that's only expected to last until two thousand and twenty two and if it gets to that point the administration would have to liquidate the assets held by those trust funds this predicament leaves a lot of questions for both young and elderly americans the earliest age we can start receiving our benefits is sixty two but most of us will have to keep working beyond that point if you were born in one nine hundred fifty nine earlier you have to wait until you're almost sixty seven years old to receive your benefits in full for those born in one nine hundred sixty and later you have to wait until exactly sixty seven. to receive them not the moment the av

goss the chief actuary of the social security administration welcome to the hearing and thank you for being here. please proceed. >> chairman and ranking member and members of the committee that i can talk to you again about the status of the trust fund. as you know the social security trustees report starting 1941 in what the challenges are in the future to assure that those benefits will be paid to all future generations of a timely basis. they share read have that combined trust fund to complete the reserve at which point there is still in kong coming to pay thereafter with 75 percent of scheduled benefits. so at that time if no changes were made we would have 25 percent so the options really are to enact changes and increase revenues or benefits by 25 percent and increased revenues by one-third or some combination. the two most significant changes are on the solvency side and we are happy to report and that is what we are projecting to be fully payable and of that bipartisan in - - bipartisan budget act the last year's report gives us one more year and this year 2028 their reasons

who can go back and look at who turns run the names d against databases such as master social security administration keeps, which says that person has died, stop look at em benefit or homeland security databases to -- for legality of citizenship in the country, somebody do ve checks, you don't know the people that show up, what status in, you take their attestation they are citizens. ne thing the kobach commission wanted to do and weren't necessarily going to do it they were going to take states and run names from the voter list, run them by two databases in particular we were talking about, master def file and homeland security databases and get at how many names shouldn't be on the lists. now it is basically a self-reporting system, if you show up at the dmv and admit you are not a citizen and we find out you registered earlier, we shouldn't have been on the voter role. it takes self-admission, nobody get namesy looking to off the roles here. host: from illinois, republican go ahead. caller: like to know one thing, when they give illegal go to nts license to work, why is that if they are illegal,

. >>> the social security administration sending a warning about scam callers trying to steal your checksme americans reporting calls from people impersonating government agents. they're looking for info. like your name, your date of birth, your social security number, the scammers can use the information to rewire social security payments to themselves. the administration says americans should exercise caution before giving any private information and should report suspicious calls to the agency's office. be very careful. >>> in a huge reversal, u.s. college tuition is growing at the slowest pace in decades. tuition has spiked nearly 400% over the past 30 years. fueling a surge in student debt. tuition last year, only rose 1.9%. that's actually in line with overall inflation. that doesn't happen. by contrast, tuition has risen more than double the rate of inflation since 1990. why is this happening? abundant supply is running up against demand. the number of colleges has tripled since 1990. enrollment is down more than 4% from a peak in 2010. a healthy job market means fewer people are g

. >> lars: this is a concern, the social security administration knows fake social security numbers areroutinely. the underlying agenda issue, especially for the left, is that this goes after the illegal alien problem. we have six people registered in six different states under the same social security number and all you have to do is match the lists and a computer to find them and now you know who they are and you know they are addressed, the left says we don't want that to happen. >> eboni: i am with that if someone can show me widespread voter fraud that warrants that type of risk you're talking about, then i will entertain it. i haven't seen it. a case here and there but i haven't seen widespread pandemonium of voter fraud that i keep hearing about it. >> tomi: i think voter i.d. laws. i am with you. divert no answer? >> tomi: i think he should have a photo i.d. to vote. a simple way to go about it. >> eboni: the people proposing that, what are they willing to do to offset the targeted groups of communities that are more adversely affected? >> lars: who gets through life without her

we have one witness today seated at the table is stephen goss, chief actuary, social security administration. mr. goss, welcome to our hearing. thank you for being here. please proceed. mr. goss: thank you very much, chairman johnson, ranking member larsen and members of the opportunity to talk to you again about the social security report on the status of these trust funds. as you all know the social security trustees reports have been coming out from the board of trustees everything year, starting in 1941, updating you on what the status of the program is and what rae challenges are in the future to assure that the schedule benefits will be able to pay -- be paid to all future generations on a timely basis and in full. this year, we project the combined trust funds to deplete the reserves in 2034. at which point, there would still be continuing income coming in to pay thereafter for the indefinite future, about 75% of schedule benefits. not what is desired and we're looking forward to fixing that. at that time in 2034, if no changes were made, we would be in a position where we would have

the social security administration is warning you about a scam caller trying to steal your checks.d to know. officials say people have been receiving calls from people with a 323 area code. they claim to be an agency employee and in some cases till the victim they're due a 1.7% cost of living adjustment. officials say do not give out your personal information because it can be used to rewire your checks to the scammer's bank account. social security says it does not request sensitive information like that over the phone. >>> from rehab to, yeah, that's bill murray over there. a lot of encouraging new developments surrounding the cal rugby player who was paralyzed during the team's championship game in may. the family updated his go fund me page with several videos this week. most importantly, here is robert moving his legs. with the help of robotics. his family says he sends signals to specific muscle groups as they are worked by the machine. he also had a chance to get out and enjoy the water on a sailing trip while he's rehabbing in colorado. and look at this. bill murray makes a

social security administration warns callers maybe trying to steal your check. eneral posted a warning explaining a caller from 232 area code claiming ton an employee of the social security administration the caller says the victim is due a cost of living increase in social security and will then attempt to acquire your personal information. that's just one of many scammers out there trying to get your personal info. there's such a high presence these days that there are even online classes designed to educate perspective scammers. cyber security firm discover the class on the deep web complete with four different instructors, 20 different lectures, and plenty of ways to help get people's credit card information that. same firm estimates $24 billion will be lost to credit card fraud just next year. we brought in cyber security expert liza garber to tell us how we can protect ourselves. let's talk about this class. you can take class online. >> oh, yes. >> how many people are paying to take the class. >> people are paying about thousand dollars and that includes a

administration. members of the board of trustees there's three cap officials, the secretary of health and human services, the secretary of treasury, the secretary of labor, the commissioner of social security. is also publicly to public trustees who play an important role in that position has been vacant over the past three yearl as well. the fact remains that in a a shifting administration with different perspectives towards healthcare is evidence from the, debate from the current health reform, the fact that the underlying approach in the assumptions and methods andre ultimately the results of what we'll see as we walk through the key findings are never different. i think that is a testament to both the current and prior administration for the role the board of trustees play in overseeing these important programs. and they are free of political perspective, that they are truly an independent objective, evaluation of the status of the trust fund. that is a pretty important observation and reality. turned my presentation and walk through the agenda will be walk-through the current status of the evolution of the program, through the formal evaluation of the financial status which is the key

individuals obtain medical records for social security hearings and honorable representation in the wake of emergency redetermineation hearings by the social security administration. she partnered with local attorneys and orchestrated hope for hundreds of families desperate for assistance while navigating through federal hearings. pam was a thoughtful leader who you could rely on to stay steps ahead of everyone else. my wife, cynthia, and i mourn the loss of our treasured friend. yet, we rejoice in the legacy of justice and compassion that she leaves behind. those of us who were blessed to know pam must carry on her banner of hope and love for the people of our region. mr. speaker, eastern kentucky is a better place because pam may lived. if we could replicate her passion and drive, our future would undoubtedly be much brighter in the hills of appalachia. cynthia and i extend our deepest heart-felt condolences to our friend and condent, walter may, as well as pam's mother, children and extended family and friends who were honored to know and love her i yield ck. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, for five minutes

the income is generally forecast -- projected by our counterparts in the social security administration, and generally subject to less variation than of the expenditures. 2016 was a goodyear to be an actuary -- a good year to be an actuary. it is pretty remarkable to see differents in expenditures as small as these. the fact that expenditures on hi were 1.7 billion lower than expected, still good news, but on part b side, we're almost exactly aligned, 0.3 billion higher than expected. on the part d side the expend it tours were somewhat lower. i'll talk about that but generally there's been some more favorable experience on the part d side after years -- a couple of years of higher costs associated with in particular specialty drugs, those that treat hepatitis c. this looks at the income and expenditures. kind of builds up from the payroll taxes. payroll taxes are set in statute to be 2.9% that are of payroll, of income, and that amount is fixed in law. the 2.9% is split between employees and their employers, self-employed pay both portions. there's also an additional opt of .9% that ar

introduced h.r. 702 in response to problems identified in the baltimore office of the social security administration. the bill requires federal agencies to establish a system to track equal employment opportunity complaints from beginning to end. this system must also track any disciplinary action that resulted from a finding of a discriminatory act. the bill also requires that both the disciplinary action and the reason for the action to be included in the employee's personnel record. mr. speaker, this bill implements notification and reporting requirements for instances of discrimination within federal agencies. agencies must provide a notice on an internal website if the agency or equal employment opportunity commission finds a discriminatory or retaliatory act has occurred, and the bill requires agencies to submit a report to the eeoc if such an act has occurred. the report must include any discrimnear action initiated against an employee for discrimination or retaliation against another employee. lastly, the bill bars agencies from using nondisclosure agreements to restrict federal employees fr

is a category in the medicaid program that if you've been determined disabled by the social security administration of the state, then you automatically get medicaid in that circumstance. about 1.9 million children around the country fit in that cat goerks a category, and based on that medical necessity standard we talked about before, they get the kind of care they need and they get the kind of care that is otherwise not available in the commercial market. some of them get special waiver service. they will get respite care for the caregiver who, as you say, is going 20 hours a day in terms of taking care of their child. they'll get a wheelchair refitted as they age and as they grow. so it is a very important program. and then there's other kids within the other categories of medicaid program, they may be foster care kids, they may be just low income kids. they may not have a disability that meets that level of disability, that gets them into the category of disable willed, but they're kids with significant health care needs and they too have their needs met strongly by the medicaid program, which

is a category in the medicaid program that if you've been determined disabled by the social security administration from the state that you automatically get medicaid in that circumstance. there are 1.9 million children around the country who fit in that category and based on that medical necessity standard that we talked about before, they get the care that they need and they get the kind of care that is not otherwise available in the commercial market, and some of them get special waiver service and get respite care for that caregiver, who as you say is going 20 hours a day in terms of taking care of their child. they'll get a wheelchair refitted as they age and as they grow. so it's a very important program, and then there are other kids within the other categories of the medicaid program. they may be foster care kids and low-income kids and it might not read the level of disability and they are kids with significant health care needs and they met very strongly, and why you see the statements from parents with kids with health care needs. >> the gentle lady's time has expired and the chair recog

be back to privatize medicare within a few months, and then they'll go after social security and the veteran administration. what they have behind them are millions and millions of dollars from billionaires who want to destroy the federal government's effort to frequent middle class and working families. that's what this is about. >> thank you for joining me tonight. >> a quick note, we inadvertently misidentified ashley. we're sorry for that. ashley is doing great boring at the "washington post." please read her work. >>> still ahead -- ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and. >>> the man in charge of communications has taken to twitter to apologize. a refrain in this arena. now, what pray tell is that apology for? if you haven't heard already, you'll have a hard time believing me wh

trump administration is trying to get your social security number, who you voted for, your military historyry, all of which is a precursor to a massive nationwide voter suppression effort. >> why do you believe that? >> what they're going to do is spread lies about voter fraud like the giant lie the president keeps repeating which is that millions of people voted illegally, which is the only reason we have a commission on election integrity to begin with. they're going to lie about voter fraud to put in place policies that suppress the vote, like strict voter id laws, making voter registration, like cutting back on early voting. all these things we have seen states doing they're going to try to do at the federal level. >> who's on the commission. it is chaired by mike pence, chris, you saw in the opening clip is the vice chair. then a series of people, new hampshire secretary of state, indiana, former ohio secretary of state, ken blackwell who is himself accused of voter suppression in ohio, people, former state legislator from arched. and hans spakovsky. >> for all intents and purposes, th

so the budget comes out and the administration says, you know, social security disability isn't really social security, even though it's named social security disability. and i went to mississippi and talked to people and said you're going to lose your coverage and they're like, i understand the president has to make difficult decisions and i'll figure it out as long as he builds that wall so the idea is that people are in some ways willing to suffer for the idea that donald trump is going to keep the other people out of the country and that is something that's really important. >> i was talking to susan collins the other day, senator from maine, and she handed me this chart and i don't expect you to be able to see this. but she's handing it out to everyone she talks to and it's the potential cost under this new bill for someone inia, -- in northern maine. but according to her calculations, these are the deductibles under the new plan. her average resident is going to pay $5500 in deductibles compared to $800 now so the key promise of republicans leading up to this bill has been, we wa

social security numbers. >> this is an outrageous attempt by this administration to suppress voters, to disenfranchise voters. >> the white house is calling criticism of the commission a political stunt. >>> new tonight, transgender americans who want to enlist in the armed forces will have to wait another six months. the pentagon announced a delay this evening. defense secretary james mattis says he wants to make sure the change won't affect military readine readiness. transgender members have been allowed to serve since last year but not to serve as new recruits. >>> coming up, drivers in california had to deal with this this morning. hear from one of the heroes of this crash, next. >>> plus you'll see it only on news 4 tonight. a >>> a lot of people had angels over them today. >> you hear this phrase all the time. you have to see it to believe it. that's the case with this video. a small twin-engine plane dropped out of the sky and exploded into flames. this happened this morning on california's 405 freeway, one of the most crowded freeways on the west coast. the plane had just taken off from john wayne p

the idea that social security numbers, a whole batch of partial social security numbers or party affiliations will just be handed over to the trump administration the sec sta sec stares of state are saying these are outrageous. lot we reported on during the campaign were manifestly untrue, but president trump wants his own commission. okay. to do their own investigation, okay. but what's not okay is invading the privacy of americans' personal liberties to ask for this kind of data. >> jay, this only lends to the further mistrust some might have about government, period. >> if president trump was serious about doing electoral reform, he would make this a bipartisan committee, so right now the 15-member committee, actually 14, the maryland member resigned over the weekend after his state refused to hand over information, this committee was all just appointed by the trump administration, and president obama did a bipartisan committee to look at electoral reform' pointed his top campaign lawyer and mitt romney's top campaign lawyer from the 2012 election, and they did vary bipartisan electoral reform. this is something that's totally not bipartisan

social securities and mediciare. they s to keep them secure in the long return, so there's an interesting dynamic and conflict setting up between what the administration wants to do and what capitol hill wants to do. i tried to press the treasury secretary today and he declined to answer what the president might do if congress sent him any legislation that made changes to those programs, whether the president would even veto them, butcertainly, it will be interesting to see. >> when we talk about those date, 2029, for the depletion of medica medicare, 34, i believe it was for social security, does that mean that the programs literally run out of money or do they begin spending more than they're taking in? that year? in other words, they begin working off gnawing down at whatever trust fund there is. >> right, so it's a little bit of a misleading term there. what it really means is that those are the years in which those the report actually estimates that the trust fund will pay out about 75% of benefits through 2090, so for many decades to come, you'll still get something, swrus not the full amount that you were promised previously. >> on this note, t

administration. they have asked for names, birth dates, political party, what elections they participated in and the last four digits of social security. some cited privacy rights while others questioned the reasoning? >>> the officer stabbed during an attack at the michigan airport last month made an appearance at the fourth of july parade today. sergeant neville had to undergo an operation on his neck. doctors said the wound was millimeters from an artery. since the attack he's received lots of support from fellow officers. >> i have had muslim police officers that reached out to me from new york city and new jersey coming in next week to meet me. they are coming a long way to do that 6789 >>> the suspect has been charged with violence at an international airport. the fbi is investigating the incident as an attack. for people that are allergic to stings, doctors are warning there is a lack of ingredient for one type of medication. they have stretching out time between doses. one of two manufacturers of the drug was shut down last year for contamination concerns. the shortage may not be resolved before next year. adam joseph back now

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social security act of 1935. certainly the act employed aids andwomen as administrators. here on thecator block is the for the child's labor amendment in 1924. of was sick of the failure child labor laws. we will have to amend the .onstitution in 1924 she gets a amendment through congress. never did find the corners of a state necessary to amend the constitution. the fact that she got it from in thes appears congressional heart of this women's block. african american women were very much involved in trying to get funds into african american communities across the country. they are active on behalf of child labor laws across the street -- state. legislativeot of goals in common with white women. they also had goals that were peculiar to african-american women. came to the national scene in the early 1920's. lynching was one of the major concerns of african-american women in the 20th century. the most important and visible lynching crusader was ida wells who became ida wells barnett. she was a young journalist in memphis. articles publishing that tallied the numbers of lync

digits of social security numbers and voter history and active or inactive status and canceled status information regarding any felony conviction and information regarding voter reg administrationother state and information regarding military status and over seas citizen information. also everything everybody had for lunch yesterday in your state plus their inner most thought and plus everybody's bra size. put that list up there again. send the trump administration -- hello, secretary of state in x state, send the trump administration all of this information on every single person registered to vote in your state. all of the millions of them. we want first and last and middle name and address and date of birth and party voting history, four digits of the social security number and convictions and military status and everything on everyone. with full names and dates of birth attached so it is all identifiable information handed over to the trump administration. handed over to chris cobach. now, the answer to that letter from him so far is no. he's been kind of an outcry from elections officials. it has been sort of a subtle secretary the state little thing to be hold today. that

quick's and it's if some of you ever get past this administration ever decides to appoint people and some of you get past, name, address, social security number and maybeyour religion, henry wallace was the secretary of agriculture. his religion was mystic . let me figure that out. these are people, there are people who talk to trees, he called himself a mystic and you see franklin roosevelt there shaking his martini glass saying what the hell is that? in any event he became a pretty good politician , very good republican because his father had been there. and roosevelt decides that when james garner, by the way roosevelt vice president was james garner, former speaker of the house. so you have your own democrat coalition between eight northern liberal and a southern conservative, kennedy and johnson. now garner decides he's not only going to oppose roosevelt's nomination but he's going to run against him. roosevelt's great comment was i see the vice president has thrown his bottle into the rain. and he runs to henry wallace, they win their third term and everything is fine and now you talk about the change in partnerships, but frankli

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social security numbers and personal information. explain the confusion around this. >> in some ways this was the trump administration's answer to thenterference question with all that talk of how did the russians interfere in the election and conservative republicans were saying there was voter fraud they believe the president tweeted about perhaps a few million votes improperly cast. to look at the integrity of the voting system, the president created this commission. part of the commission is to look at voter irregularities to try to assess what happened. they have asked all the states to provide voter registration information. that's public information that's publically available. the kind of stuff when we register to vote would contribute. this is a states issue. two dozen states say we won't turn this over. democrats say it could be a means of voter suppression, looking for those they can kick off the roles and republicans are saying this should be handled by the states. they don't need a federal commission looking into the roles. chris coback of kansas who was interviewed for various positions and is a part of the commission

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states have now turned down the trump administration's request for detailed voter information, dates of birth, voting history, last four numbers of his social security number. 42 states including wyoming and arizona. how significant a setback is this for this hunt for two million to three million illegal votes? >> yeah. i mean, it's a big setback. not just democratic states, it's 42 states. that's a lot of republican states, too. >> right. >> that are not going to give up this information. so you know, if you can't even get republicans on board with this with this idea of cracking down on voter fraud, then it's going to be a big uphill battle to get this investigation i guess underway. >> and we should remind people the reason why there is this voter fraud commission is because the president without any evidence at all several months ago said that millions of people voted illegally, and he would have won -- he would have won -- >> the popular vote. >> the popular vote had it not been for all these illegal voters. the attorney general and state election foishlofficials have b saying, no, we don't have rampant voter fraud. we did not have people votin

history, the last four digits of your social security number, these are things that scream danger stranger to a lot of folks not just in the election administration but hackers dream. this isn't just third party requesting information of an individual or certain districts, this is the president of the united states requesting this information of all the americans. this is of alarm. it's a violation of what republicans across the nation unanimously support. the president has done one good thing, that's bring democrat and republican secretaries of state together. they don't want to see the if the government encroaching on something that is left specifically for the states to run, and that is the election administration. elections are left directly to the states. you don't have to see or be from kentucky to know that this smells a little funny, smells a little like horse manure. there's something suspicious going on. we want to make sure we're moving our elections forward not backwards. i'm not about to put 3.3 million kentuckyians at risk. >> have you had any information with the leadership on the commission, have you voiced those concerns to them?

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administration. >> following this letter asking all 50 states to provide their voter data, names, addresses, dates of birth, party affiliation and even in some cases the last four digits of social security numbers. >> will rhode island comply with the this the request? >> no. first of all, i think this is an alarming request. i don't know where it's coming from. >> from mississippi's republican secretary of state, my reply would be they could go jump in the gulf of mexico and mississippi is a great state to launch from. >> my question is what are you afraid of? it's publicly available information. we're going to analyze it and present it to the public. >> the white house calling it a political stunt. the administration's move is months in the making. after losing the popular vote to hillary clinton, president trump has alleged without proof that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally. >> voting rights advocates question the entire process. >> not only should voters be skeptical of the results, but they should be extremely, you know, sir couple expect about the collection of this data and how it's going to be handled. >> peter alexander, nbc news, the white house. >> you heard the

administration's commission investigating voter fraud. chris cobach spoke with my colleague ali velshi why they are requesting voter data and social security they are requesting what you can request walking into the office and get. why not look at the data. it is publicly available. show the american public how significant the issue is. it is fact finding. >> so there is a lot going on in politics. joining me now is sarah westwood. you have a new article out of "trump's tweets unnerve republican allies." we have more with republicans and democrats in policy and issues of trying to govern. we look at many controversies of the president launched via twitter, what do you make of these inside the republican tent? >> trump's tweets came at an inopportune time. not that there is ever a time to go after tv hosts. this is the week where republicans were trying to build support. they were looking to the white house to provide some air cover to push the legislation. now republicans are in the familiar position of having to distance from the inflammatory comments coming from the president at the same time they are trying to latch on to trump's health

administration for two reasons. one, they are concerned about consolidation of this information, names, addresses, birthdays, last four digits of social security 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 give information to the very distinguished voter fraud panel. what are they trying to hide?" one of kobach's points is that most of this information is publicly available and the states that are holding are just waiting to see what they need to provide. i want to get your take on this because there are some republican secretaries who are saying, washington, d.c., is not getting hold of my information. >> of course, republican governors that have said that, they ar

morning, the trump administration facing growing resistance over a request for voter information. 44 states are now pushing back on these requests for information like partial social securityg history, birth dates. >> a lot of pushback. this request stems from the trump team's election integrity commission. let's bring in our white house reporter jeremy diamond for more. look, the white house is having to go on the defense on this one and go against a number of republicans secretaries of state. >> that's right. and for this administration and for this commission, some of the criticism has been frankly baffling for them. what they've made clear is that all the information that they've requested even when they've said wealth like to get, you know, last four digits of social security numbers and other information that is often flooift many states they've said only if it's available publicly in your state. so they want states to remain in accordance with their laws and release only information that's public. and yet still we've seen really a slew of criticism from dozens of states. here's a small sampling. >> i think the purpose of this besides indulging the president's fantas