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Democrats who voted last week the proceed to debate this bill. i am going to support this bill of i think we have a difference of opinion about the purpose of the bill. there are amendments, mark-ups and now a series of votes on the floor. i believe this is a bill that provides regulatory relief for community banks or credit unions, regional banks, but does not affect core protections of dodd frank. we have a disagreement on policy. i hope this doesnt spill into the sort of partisan warfare with...

Reporting on the way things can slide backwards when you no longer have the core protections. they looked at school systems in the south, but in particularly in tuscaloosa, mississippi, where desegregation orders have been lifted in a lot of places, and they found that the number of what they call apartheid schools, schools where the white population is 1% or less, have risen dramatically from 2,762 in 1988 to 6,727 in 2011, and as schools have resegregated, we have seen the gap between white ac...

And b, i think were really seeing the dangers of this kind of slippery slopeness. and this is something civil libertarians have been warning about. once you start eating away at these core protections, it gets a lot easier to start extending those arguments in very pernicious ways. >> in terms of the white houses belated pushback on this, but it is a very strong pushback theyre doing now, it seems like theyre essentially setting up sort of a facts versus fear fight. that they can say all sorts o...

Attorney, thats not even the policies of the bush administration. thats way to the right of bush. so are we, effectively, bringing the entire debate over civil liberties and terrorism so far to the right that were going to have a whole bunch of republicans running to the right of dick cheney in the next election? >> yes! thats whats so crazy about whats going on. everybody should read the holder letter. he basically lays out and says, i dont care what you want, mitch mcconnell. theres no legal a...