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Answer. yes, i agree for the most part. look, this came out of the 14th amendment. its an embarrassment to our country that we even need the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment to tell people its not okay to own other people. children of slaves were given citizenship. that should have happened. its not meant to cover something like whats going on now. theres two different points here. 400,000 babies are born to undocumented people in the united states every single year. it costs billions of dollars. a lo...

Too narrow what it means to be an american but to protect and expand it. the 26th amendment ratified in 1971 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, expanding the franchise to 11 million people at the time. the 24th amendment, 1964, allowed all eligible people to vote whether or not they had the means to pay those poll taxes. the 23rd amendment, 1961, the first time people living in the nations capital had the right to vote in presidential elections, so that was new for them. 1920, the 19th amendm...

>> good to see you, melber. >> great to see you. you track this. you write about this. what was the 14th amendment about originally as you see it? >> it was originally about granting full citizenship to african-americans and of course we had the 13th and 14th and the 15th amendment which were supposed to enforce reconstruction, enforce the end of the civil war. and bring rights to newly emancipated slaves and the 14th amendments another no only thing that the gops trying to repeal because we pas...

Heres what that means. black folks in america are telling one party we dont care without the you. theyre telling the other party you got our vote. thfr, you have labelled yourself disenfranchised because one party knows theyve got you under their thumb. the other party knows theyll never get you. and nobody comes to address your interest. >> how honest? pulling back the curtain on the black vote here. when he said no republican candidate right here has gotten more than 15% of the vote by black a...

Trying to give women the right to vote to try to achieve equality. you use an unequal system to achieve it. same with african-americans in the 15th amendment. when only whites would vote, it took whites to get together to make that real. but the point is that the inperfect system has to be made better by using the system. so i think we should not have a system where campaigns -- where super pacs can raise unlimited amounts of money to support campaigns to oppose campaigns. thats not to say i opp...

Use an unequal system to achieve it. >> right. >> same with african americans in the 15th amendment. when only whites would vote, it took whites to get together to make that real. but the point is that the imperfect system has to be made better by using the system. so yes, i think we should not have a system where campaigns -- where superpacs can raise unlimited amounts of money to support campaigns or to oppose campaigns. thats not to say i oppose pacs. i think limited pacs are a good thing. th...

Chris christie personally. we have to make sure there is no record of what he said to us because he might need to change that story at some point in the future. >> well, in fact, there is no transcript, no tape, of what those interviews consisted of. according to, what our attorney told us. >> now, the judge said that the reason that -- that -- mr. steppian, and ms. kelly can invoke the 5th amendment was as judge jacobson put it, she said they could face prosecution for official misconduct in ei...

Do after coordinating with the u.s. attorneys office or in discussions so that we do not interfere with any kind of a criminal investigation that might be going on simultaneously. and then there are still other folks that we would look to interview who will give us some input in the way the port authority actually operates. people who are not in the -- vicinity of 5th amendment issues. but who are important to come before us, and tell us well, what did you do when you heard about this? what are ...

Discussions so that we do not interfere with any kind of a criminal investigation that might be going on simultaneously. and then there are still other folks that we would look to interview who will give us some input in the way the port authority actually operates. people who are not in the -- vicinity of 5th amendment issues. but who are important to come before us, and tell us well, what did you do when you heard about this? what are the processes that the port authority? so there is still wo...

Chris christie personally. we have to make sure there is no record of what he said to us because he might need to change that story at some point in the future. >> well, in fact, there is no transcript, no tape, of what those interviews consisted of. according to, what our attorney told us. >> now, the judge said that the reason that -- that -- mr. steppian, and ms. kelly can invoke the 5th amendment was as judge jacobson put it, she said they could face prosecution for official misconduct in ei...