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Concealed weapons i.d. and did not allow you to have voting places where you could get the -- >> theyre working against the federal law as best they can. >> so section 5 was the one that would help say to the texas folk that cannot be. so to my friends who want to argue that theyre out of it, no, theyre not because next year they could make another law that would block voting and section 5 stands there as a codification of the constitution to block those kinds of laws. john lewis said it. i join...

0 ever in the whole history of the dow. it came within 15 points of the record. now, the record was set in october 2007. notably, before the financial crisis. before the american economy imploded and almost took the world down with it. the dow today came within spitting distance of prefinancial crisis record highs, the highest of all time. amazing. and of course the stock market on any given day is not an indicator of the general health of the economy as a whole. but that race to the top at the ...

0 the crisis that we must avert. that congress must take action to avoid. and if they dont, crash, horrible consequences. congress, save us. tomorrow is the deadline. we are officially in the 11th hour. this is the last minute. this is the moment when everything is supposed to be getting fixed, when congress is supposed to be up all night sweating it out. actually, today congress went home 2:07 p.m. and 13 seconds the house stands adjourned until monday. 6:30 p.m. and 20 seconds, the senate stan...

Chuck schumers bill hopefully will pass the senate and then come back to the house. but time is not on our side. its on the nras side. and thats why i appreciate your highlighting this issue. we cant give up on this issue, ed. and, you know, there is 30,000 deaths now from guns. and car deaths have now dropped below 30,000. there is considerably more firearm deaths in virginia than there are deaths by automobiles. but thats because we have seat belt laws. we have drunk driving penalties. we requ...

Get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question, now regardless of how the supreme court rules, does discrimination still exist when it comes to voting rights? text "a" for yes. text "b" for no to 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. well bring you results later on in the show. joining me tonight, congressman elijah cummings of maryland. congressman, great to have you with us this evening. i appreciate your time on this. >> its good to be with you, ed....

>> well, i think, you know, selfishly, players need to do that right now. and of course, thats why you havent seen a player come out in the nfl yet. but thats why mayors like myself and chris kluwe work so hard and feel theyll be better people and better football players as well. >> do you feel in the future there will be players coming out and staying on rosters? >> absolutely. its just a matter of time. i think its going to happen really soon. but right now at this nfl combine, i dont think yo...

Elected to anything. >> yeah. >> should have that right. and it just concerns me that. >> is a very profound point. they would rather have an appointed body make the decisions on voting rights instead of an elected body? >> isnt that amazing? i find that utterly amazing. i mean, their ideology, right on their sleeve, right out in the open. i mean i think it is terribly misguided to think there is no longer any discrimination over voting rights in this country. just look at the last election. >> ...

People have told us of the horrible sight of those young kids up in newtown, connecticut. i personally dont want to be a part of a movement to keep those semiautomatics flying into the hands of all sorts of people today, the hoarders, the survivalists, the criminal and downright nutty. why? because the next mass shooter could well emerge out of this pack. check the shooters of john f. kennedy and gerry ford, who got shot at twice. look at the hen who shot bobby kennedy and malcolm x and george w...

Paralleled yours, congressman moran. i thought that was you testifying there for a moment. >> you give me too much credit. sounded like you, though, i have to say. >> great to have all you have with me tonight, congressman jim moran, congresswoman jan schakowsky, and congressman john yarmuth. great to have you on. a state republican rep compares a co-sponsor to jesus? that next. daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, daily ed tablet like needing to go frequently or urgently....

Even the name is wonderful, the voting rights act. whose going to vote against that?" it bears repeating justice scalia also said this. whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political process. lets turn to a professor at george washington university. good to have you with us tonight. >> hi, ed. >> section 5, if it is struck down by the supreme court, what does it mean to voting rights in this country? what does it mean to local ...