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Vote, is under attack. if we stand by and do nothing we are signing off on this moral bankruptcy." strong words. joining me now is the reverend william barber, head of the north carolina naacp, and mary b. mcmillan from the north carolina afl-cio. mary b., tell us why you wrote that piece and what youre trying to get done here. >> thank you for having me. union members and workers from around the state were in raleigh today to protest a long list of injustices and to say to our legislature that ...

Extremism. if you go extreme like cantor they want you to be even more extreme. here in north carolina, were nonpartisan. but its interesting for somebody to want to be senate when theyre flunking as speaker. hes already hurt north carolinians as speaker, now wants to go further and be able to hurt not only north carolina linnians but people around the nation as senator. we actually have a study out now done by the tax and policy center that shows that the agenda that mary b. and the unions and ...

You, mary b., talking about voter registration, a big issue as part of moral mondays as well. >> the antidote to massive voter suppression is massive voter registration. we as progressives have to get back into having that conversation. that the time has come for us to invest in massive voter registration again in the south. because not just the numbers of unregistered black voters but unreg strered brown voters, unregistered asian voters. and also increasingly young voters. >> right. >> young w...

We are in a state where 36% of working people are working poor. and were 18% poverty. and mary b. is my great friend and she was there more than 2,000 people gathered today, because its almost as though they want to just kick people when theyre down. all of the things that would help the working poor, they have gone after, and then tom tillis tried to say hes a moderate. theyre going after earned income tax credit. theyve gone after unemployment. theyve taken away medicaid expansion. theyve atta...

Bankruptcy." strong words. joining me now is the reverend william barber, head of the north carolina naacp, and mary b. mcmillan from the north kashl a afl-cio. mary b., tell us why you wrote that piece and what youre trying to get done here. >> thank you for having me. union members and workers from around the state were in raleigh today to protest a long list of injustices and to say to our legislature that no matter what kind of rules they invent, they cannot silence us and they cannot hide f...

>> the antidote to massive voter suppression is massive voter registration. we as progressives have to get back into having that conversation. that the time has come for us to invest in massive voter registration again in the south. because not just the numbers of unregistered black voters but unregistered brown voters, unregistered asian voters. and also increasingly young voters. >> right. >> young whites. >> mary b., your thoughts on what youre doing on that front before we go? >> were going ...

I say no. life is unfair, but the government rescues are really unfair. now, as were clawing back, theyre unwise and unnecessarily costly. diane e-mails, youre right. you should never be able to buy a house without at least putting one third down, or well be back to 2008 and my house will be down by one third again. well, i dont think it has to be one third down, diane, but i do think it should be substantial enough that the borrower has a clear stake and the lender has a clear incentive to find...