Fox host shouts down Dem over married women losing their vote: 'What's the problem?'

A Fox Business segment on Thursday morning devolved into shouting as anchor Maria Bartiromo tried to talk over the objections of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to certain provisions of the SAVE America Act, the controversial Trump-backed legislation that would put extreme new restrictions on voting rights and effectively give the Department of Homeland Security oversight of state voting rolls.

Khanna focused on the fact that under the terms of the law, married women who had legal name changes would face significant obstacles to voting because they can't use the name on their birth certificate to verify their citizenship — but Bartiromo, who is known for embracing conspiracy theories on air, didn't see any issue with this.

"Elections have been lost by a couple of votes," said Bartiromo heatedly. "So just to say, oh, [the fraud is] not a lot, that's not an answer, sir."

"But people have been fearmongering that when it's not an issue in the election, and the reality is you have cases of people who are married, you want them if they've changed their name to have to prove with their birth certificate?" said Khanna.

"What's the problem?" Bartiromo said, talking over him. "Yes. Get your birth certificate. You can't vote if you're not an American citizen."

The SAVE America Act has no path to passage in the Senate, where it cannot overcome the 60-vote cloture threshold to defeat a Democratic filibuster.

Trump has spent months demanding Republicans either tack the bill onto some other must-pass measure or do away with the filibuster entirely to get it through, neither of which has support from the Senate GOP. The disagreement has caused a growing rift between Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD).

Privately, a number of Republicans are sick of debating the legislation and want Trump to let them move on from it.