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Better than anybody the stakes here are enormous. the pressures from outside, from both parties, from activist groups, from grassroots are immense. and what they decide to do will not just affect this nomination or this issue, which obviously is extraordinarily sensitive and has brought so many ideas, thoughts, policy proposals to the table over the course of the last couple of months into play, but also more broadly for the u.s. senate, for nominations going forward. i think everybody is cogniz...

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[ applause ] turning now to the reason we are in philadelphia, todays racial sensitivity training at starbucks locations across the country. >> this after an employee in april called the police on two black men who were sitting in the store and had not yet purchased anything. rev, you got the call not long after the outcry. what was the ask? >> he asked me what did i think. many of our activist groups, our chapter here and others were involved in the marching and i said that this is not about ...

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On the hustings in north carolina today, president obama drew attention to this voter suppression phenomenon thats been happening in specifically in north carolina this year. republican activist groups have campaigned in north carolina to get thousands of people kicked off the voting rolls in the lead-up to the election. well, today in north carolina president obama told the story of one of those people who got purged off the voting rolls. shes 100 years old. shes a north carolina resident named...

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