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So, if you look at the last 60 years or so and watching congressman lewis, you cant help but go back to sunday, march 7th, 1965, on the bridge when he was leading peaceful marchers across that bridge for the right to vote, the fundamental right that had been guaranteed, allegedly, in the 15th amendment, but has been denied by my home region. and if you think about it, in an interesting way, you know, we have a debate going on, where do you begin this, when we were founded? in a lot of ways, the ...

Republicans started shifting from the democratic party -- to the democratic party simply because the democrats back then, the party of racism, wanted to keep segregation in place and so the only choice that those democrats had were to leave the republican party and first they tried to become what they called dixie crats. that didnt work. and that is how the democrats back then became the republicans of today. and so they were always the party of racism. and back then, there was a group of senato...

Democratted voted against 1, 14, 15th amendment as a percentage more p republicans voted for cil right act of 1954 than did in the in thes in house and? the senate most blacks are oblivious to that nor have blacks connected welfare state to the rise in black kids who are raised without fathers. and 165, 25% of black kids were raised without fathers now number is 70% and that tracks welfare states spend welfare state has women to marry government low men for spornght and kanye west is e shedding ...

14th and 15th amendments, he has to talk about this defacto injurae, otherwise we will have a supreme court who disenfranchises ohio and chief roberts sanctioned that, sanctioned taking folks off the rolls because they didnt vote. >> susan, i think his speech who, if general in terms of attracting some black voters, the polls say hes way ahead with black voters. but in the primaries, i think hes going to have to get that specific around supreme court and the other things that i raised because he...

Take the rough with the smooth when it came to the confirmation process. its easy to hold firm when you believe in him. >> it matters not a wit that some of the drafters of the 15th amendment were racist or sexists. because they were. the law they drafted promised equal protection of the law to all persons. thats what they wrote. shannon: the hold world was watching. your family, co-workers. >> when god takes sock away. he took away my anonymity. he gives something in return if you look hard eno...

So it should have been easy to take the rough with the smooth when it came to the confirmation process. its easy to hold firm when you believe in him. >> it matters not a wit that some of the drafters of the 15th amendment were racist or sexists. because they were. the law they drafted promised equal protection of the law to all persons. thats what they wrote. shannon: the hold world was watching. your family, co-workers. >> when god takes sock away. he took away my anonymity. he gives something...

Abraham lincoln. the grand old party of george w. bush, the most recent republican president won 40% of latino votes in 2004. in the battle for voter support, the gop back then refused to accept the outright defeat it had suffered in seeking african american votes. well, today donald trump is leading the republicans of 2019 in a way that forfeits the votes of hispanic americans. its become a party of, by, and for white americans. this is not what republicans who won the civil war and passed the ...

>> and in fact you did go with written questions after about nine months, sir. and the president responded to those, and you have some hard language for what you thought of those responses. what did you think of the preside presidents written responses, mr. mueller? >> certainly not as useful as the interview would be. >> in fact, you pointed out, and by my count, there were more than 30 times when the president said he didnt recall, he didnt remember, no independent recollection, no current rec...

Inadequate, instuff. that a fair summary of what you thought of those written answers? >> that is a fair summary. >> by the way, the president didnt ever claim the 5th amendment, did he? >> im not going to talk to that. >> from what i can tell, sir, at one point it was vital, and at another point it wasnt vital. and my question to you is why did it stop being veitle? and i can only think of three explanations. one is that somebody told you couldnt do it. but nobody told you couldnt subpoena the ...

About nine months. and you have some hard language for what you thought of those responses. what did you think of those responses, mr. mueller? >> certainly not as useful as the interview would be. >> you pointed out and by my count there were more than 30 times where the president said he didnt recall, he didnt remember, no independent correction, no current recollection. i take it by your answer it wasnt as helpful, thats why you used words like incomplete, imprecise, inadequate. is that a fai...