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>> because people were angry and decided to exercise their right to vote. >> thats the point. this is about voter mobilization. this is about playing to the identity politics of democrats who fear -- >> but isnt the opposite true as well? if thats true, isnt the opposite true, that if youre in a state where you want to discourage that same demographic from coming out, you try to raise the bar to what it takes to actually be able to vote? >> it could be, and it may be the motivation of some repub...

Operating system. >> whats interesting is how short it was but think about it in todays age of sound bites. people would have taken off heres if it didnt fit on twitter. >> the real anxiety i have is what if somebody gave a gettysburg address today, maybe c span might have it. certainly we wouldnt be able to pick it up in the speed and rapidity in our news cycles -- >> maybe he understood before any of us the digital age. >> but nobody -- >> too wordy. >> i have a feeling that lincoln would be a...

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Washington. kara, wasnt that a beautiful picture? >> that was a beautiful picture. >> do you know who took that? i did. on my iphone. >> im glad you figured that out finally. >> just to impress you. tuesday marks 149th anniversary of president lincolns assassination at the ford theater here in washington. ken burns has come. hes made a new documentary of the impact of the gettysburg address. always great to have you here. >> thanks. >> this was -- you live up near a school where the gettysburg a...

I think its backed up by a supreme court thats done great damage to the voting rights act. republicans still holding onto a bill that they wont bring to the floor that actually could restore those protections, and i think the president is dead on on this one and were not going to go into november with people not understanding the restrictions that are being placed on their right to vote. >> kara, as you look out, you look at politics around the country at the grassroots level. it could be about ...

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Washington. kara, wasnt that a beautiful picture? >> that was a beautiful picture. >> do you know who took that? i did. on my iphone. >> im glad you figured that out finally. >> just to impress you. tuesday marks 149th anniversary of president lincolns assassination at the ford theater here in washington. ken burns has come. hes made a new documentary of the impact of the gettysburg address. always great to have you here. >> thanks. >> this was -- you live up near a school where the gettysburg a...

Gratifying. >> you know, the white house has been publicly very supportive, but then theres all the sort of back sniping. this is washington, after all. people are asking, were you pushed or did you jump? >> well, actually i made a decision at the election that i couldnt leave along with a lot of my colleagues who left at the end of the first term. that did not seem to be even a topic to consider since there was still one more chapter in this affordable care act that needed to roll out and that ...

Permanently and you can see them escape the gravity of their disabilities, their differences and get to this new place. >> its so striking. we were talking about this, that for someone with some learning difficulties, this is how an old speech can live anew because the brilliance was its brevity to use it to overcome some difficulty. >> and you know, i had the really great privilege of reading and reciting the gettysburg address with three sets of high school students in my district, and i was i...

Gratifying. >> you know, the white house has been publicly very supportive, but then theres all the sort of back sniping. this is washington, after all. people are asking, were you pushed or did you jump? >> well, actually i made a decision at the election that i couldnt leave along with a lot of my colleagues who left at the end of the first term. that did not seem to be even a topic to consider since there was still one more chapter in this affordable care act that needed to roll out and that ...