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What we know is we can overcome the wall of vote suppression with a higher wave of vote registration. youve got to invest, do the hard work and start now. >> speaking of which, one of your colleagues, republican state senator barry fleming in the other house has a bill to limit early voting. what do you think is going to happen with access to voting rights in georgia between now and election day? >> were going to fight very hard to avoid any limitations. representative flemings bill would limi...

The senate will end its session. for a couple days, we talked about how rhetoric was dialed back, people sounded happier, they were speaking in more measured tones on both sides of the aisle. well, that all changed. the house gop have their conference meeting this morning. coming out of it, we heard from some house republicans that were very angry president obama rejected their plan that would raise the debt limit until november 22nd. listen to what one of the house members had to say, this is r...

Leaders primarily in the house got together and essentially plotted as the reporting goes to how they could, you know, grind the administration to a halt. i think a lot of the people who were elected, the tea party republicans elected in 2010, were ideologues whose mission was not to stop obama care but to dismantle government. you saw the other day the head of the congressional budget office said if we defaulted on our debt that would be catastrophic for the country and the response from repres...

Rationing that comes with obama care, it still goes out of business in 12 years if we dont radically change this. >> thank you very much, representative fleming for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you, molly. >> and up next, an update on a story weve been following closely. that school told to hold its graduation elsewhere can stay. it has to cover up some religious signs. remember this song? >> ♪ hey there delila whats it like in new york city ♪ >> the plain white ts are...

Fleming. and representative fleming, good to see you. good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> i know that you supported this bill. what did john boehner say to you that convinced you to back it, and how much convincing did you need? >> well, i really was a skeptic and have been a skeptic. i voted against some of the other initiatives that the speakers brought along. but you have to think of this as a four-round contest. number one is to change the spending paradigm in washington. and thats exact...

The president of the united states. who is going to lead us back to prosperity? and also who is going to control the house and the senate? so this is just the first round, alex. and i think we want it for the american people. >> representative fleming, though, you say that youre a skeptic. how about the tea party members there? and to what extent they pushed back with john boehner? i mean, what was their reaction when all was said and done? >> i think its mixed. many of them get it that this is ...