mueller was sending to you, a sitting member of congress? i think what is clear is that i think it s a fair inference from what we heard in that press conference that bob mueller was essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress. reporter: a steady stream of 2020 democratic candidates rapidly jumped in with reaction. senators cory booker and kir stkirsten gillibrand both previously stopped short of launching an impeachment inquiry. today, booker said congress had a legal and moral obligation to begin proceedings. gillibrand said in her statement, it s time. elizabeth warren, among the first of the candidates to call for impeachment proceedings, reiterated that call. these are impeachable offenses. your reaction to mueller today, sir? front-runner joe biden ignored questions from reporters about mueller s news conference. in a statement, he stopped short of calling for impeachment proceedings to begin, saying, quote, no one would relish what would certainly b
and revive the civil rights movement in terms of making sure every american gets to vote. so you re telling me 200,000 voters didn t vote in florida. so mitt romney could have won? is that what we re saying here? who knows? but i doubt those were voters that would have supported mitt romney. i might have lost my bet to axelrod! you know what i don t get, barnicle, what i don t get is you have the supreme court now actually reviewing section 5. section 5 of the 1965 voting rights act, and why? if we don t if we want to make sure that the south is not unfairly targeted all these years later, why don t we just have section 5 apply to all states and just have an examination of all states? well, i believe section 5 does apply to several states nine states. i think alaska, parts of california, arizona. yeah. but the irony, senator, is it
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led to the voting rights act of 1965. that s exactly right. and that, i think, is part of the power of selma. it shows the power of human intervention. laws were pushed and changed because people force it had to take place that way. and senator gillibrand, i have a question along those lines. going back to selma now shows how much progress has been made over the past four decades. but what does it also mean about what still what needs to be done in terms of voting rights, preserving voting rights for all people? congressman lewis has authored this bill about voting rights. we had 200,000 people in florida, joe, that didn t get to vote in the last election because of lines. we had, in the last election previous, we had 3 million people who had voter registration problems and weren t able to vote. so if we could register online, be able to vote early, we could change some of the dynamics that result in long lines and people being denied the right to vote. so we want to basically rene