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Reauthorized every single republican senator voted for re-authorization. the time before that, strom thurman voted for re-authorization of the voting rights act, which is -- basically were talking about the pre-clearance provisions that are in the john lewis act. this time weve had no republicans, publicly at least, willing to support that, with one exception, possibly lisa murkowski at least willing to debate it. have you -- are there contacts ongoing? and is there any hope that republicans wil...

He would not support a bill unless he could get some republican votes too. in the spirit of bipartisanship, he wrote letter with republican senator about the importance of both sides coming together for federal voting rights legislation. specifically, the re-authorization of the voting rights act that back in day was like a huge bipartisan thing. not so much anymore. this was joe manchins grand bargain on voting rights. he said this is too ambitious. we need to work across the aisle. he tempered...

Had the shelby decision, which really gutted the preclearance provision. it allowed states that had a history of voter discrimination to now be able to institute very restrictive voter i.d. laws, anti-voter laws in my opinion. and so i think that we saw in this past election, over 40 million americans dont believe that we had a fair and accurate election. and so i think that at the heart of this is that american people do not trust their electoral system. i think that john lewis bill, the john r...

Back to my hometown in 2015 for the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery march and george and laura bush wanted to be there. why? they were proud that under his tenure they reauthorized the voting rights act of 1965, for 25 years. but for shelby decision and the decision which compromises the vra undermining section 2 and the right to sue for discriminatory effect, these are things that are really bad. and i think american folks understand that. theres nothing more fundamental to our demo...

>> one of the key lessons for me and i hope my president and vice president are listening. there are times where the moment demands you put your back into it. right? that when we think about -- ill go back even further. we think about the revolutionary war. and im not, you know, add voluntary caughting violence in any way. but, you know, in defense of democracy and in defense of democracy gave his life. john lewis took bricks to the face on the bridge and cracked had his skull. others have taken...

2000 stopped the recount in florida. i want to talk about 1982. when reagan reauthorized and got his party together and reauthorized the voting rights act. and called it the crown jewel ow american liberties. i want to talk about 2006 when george w. bush despite attempts to water down the voting rights act among his party, passed a clean re-authorization of the voting rights act. by a majority of the folks in the house and the senate. right? if youre talking about doing everything that you can t...

They believe will actually benefit republicans. >> bill, house speaker pelosi tweeted out this photo of what she called mcconnells graveyard in response to legislation. it goes to the senate and nothing happens. obviously some of this stuff they would never support but among them are bills like lowering prescription drug prices. the re-authorization of the violence against women act which used to be a fairly bipartisan piece of legislation. why kill those? i dont understand. if its something tha...

That means that they are losing everything. this will make recovery harder. >> sounds like once you can move, were in the middle of it now, but it sounds like long term, one of the issues to emerge is the need for more people to have flood insurance in areas that might be hit. >> yeah, more flood insurance. we got to stop building the way were building where were billing. its just getting worse. were not going to build a response big enough to all of these threats. the national flood insurance p...

Political fortune is now wedded, for better or worse, to mr. trump. >> he should separate out the pack and they have their own political enterprise thats separate. its clear the koch organization is concerned about issues. they are concerned about trade. they are free traders. they want a more tolerant immigration policy. they are concerned about spending in the omnibus. they are concerned about re-authorization of the export/import. i was with them on two of the four issues. they are alarmed by...

Kathy caldwell, shes on the phone. we dont often do interviews on the phone but this is really important for people to understand. kathy, thank you for joining us. let me understand, in a place like alabama which is running out of c.h.i.p. money without this re-authorization, what does that actually mean for a family that has a child that gets their health coverage from c.h.i.p.? >> it will probably quite devastating news to these families that their childrens coverage might end. they rely on it...