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In a long-term and every indication is that they are starting to arrive. >> yes, i think he turned on institutional structures. we are still not operating under the full protection of the voting rights act. in 2016 we saw what happened in the democrats. were seeing especially a case like georgia, stacey abrams has galvanized the state of georgia, not just atlanta, not just faerns -- >> do you think the purple of georgia is real? >> ive done some work in georgia and ive seen it. there are a lot o...

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>> mr. schumer, no. >> debate is not in order during a vote. gentlemen from illinois. >> on behalf of the down state >> mr. durbin? no. mrs. murray. >> debate is not in order during a vote. >> how am i recorded? on behalf of elderly people who cannot afford higher prescription charges, i vote no. >> mr. sanders. mr. sanders, no. mccaskell. >> because there is no replace, i vote no. >> debate is not allowed during the vote. >> ms. klobuchar. >> am i recorded? >> the senator is not recorded. >> ba...

>> on the opposite coast, melinda is hitting the hair salon. shes not getting a fancy up-do. this is a boxer braid. >> i dont know if they think were going to use it as a weapon or something. >> the countdown to her fight is on. shes competed twice in the last two years and lost both times. >> my goal is to get my first win. i want to be strong. i want to be the winner. >> her daughter, briana, has come to every one of her moms matches and tonight will be no different. >> looks so nice, mom. >> ...

Auto crashes there. they have sleet and ice on the freeways. hundreds of accidents there. that part is going to come into the southeast and that will fire up the storm that goes up the east coast tomorrow night and thursday. and that is why well have all kinds of issues. but here in the upstate from greenville to charlotte, up towards greensboro and into d.c. and northeast, it will be primarily thouprim primarily snow. 6 to 10 inches. but down state, columbia, a augusta, parts of atlanta, well h...

Shootings and everything in chicago. if chicago is more -- you know, the down state, from i-80 south we have -- this will be our issue. >> chicago police increase numbers in the bad areas. >> more than 1200 weapons have been seized since the first of the year. to stop the bullets theysy multi-platform approach is necessary. help from the state capital unavoidable. in chicago, mike mike tobin, fox news. >> bret: the latest fox news poll shows a large majority of those surveyed favor a path to cit...

Thing and saying that under the law we should treat all people equally and fairly. >> i want to get this on. the national organization of marriage president brian brown has written in regard to this that any republican in illinois who betrays the cause of marriage will be casting a career-ending vote and will be held accountable for their -- the national -- they seem to lose their relevance with every state that institutes marriage equality. are politicians listening to that threat there? >> the...

Have his day in the sun. >> bret: thank you. now reaction from santorum camp. mike emmanuel is with the candidate in pennsylvania. good evening, mike. good evening, mike. >> good evening, bret. it seems to be trying to turn the page from illinois as quickly as possible. they emphasized he won in conservative areas of illinois such as down state, western illinois. santorum emphasized delegates he would be picking up with romney winning the state that will only tag his lead after it was over, sant...

>> ill tell you what, tonight was a fantastic night in the land of lincoln, the place that knows barack obama better than anyone. we know what it is going to take to defeat him, come november. we know we want the strongest candidate possible. when you look at the numbers out of illinois, it is phenomenal for mitt romney in the fact that he didnt just win. there are four candidates in this race, he got about 50% of the vote, about half of the voters in illinois, with four candidates in the race, ...

Was a fantastic night in the land of lincoln, the place that knows barack obama better than anyone. we know what it is going to take to defeat him, come november. we know we want the strongest candidate possible. when you look at the numbers out of illinois, it is phenomenal for mitt romney in the fact that he didnt just win. there are four candidates in this race, he got about 50% of the vote, about half of the voters in illinois, with four candidates in the race, that was a tremendous turnout ...