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Former Mississippi officials will discuss strategies for facing state's challenges during ‘Moving Mississippi Forward.’ On Thursday, October 13th, former Governor Haley Barbour and retired U.S. Senator Trent Lott will attend the University of Mississippi’s “Moving Mississippi Forward” to discuss ho

Lewis bill, which the roberts court said, you need to pass this, you need to update this. so theyve done it now in the house, hr-4, the john lewis voting rights bill. and every republicans opposing it or most republicans are opposing it, you think how much things have changed in 2006 when the civil rights bill was reauthorized, overwhelming number of republicans supported it. >> 98 to nothing. senator lott, who wasnt friends of the civil rights voted for the bill. i was in the senate when it hap...

Party leaders in today’s 50-50 Senate are haggling over a power-sharing agreement, and that’s no surprise. Only twice in American history has the Senate had a dead-even split: in a special session in 1881, and exactly 20 years ago, on the heels of a contentious presidential election decided by the Supreme Court. In that charged atmosphere, Sens. Trent Lott, Republican from Mississippi, and Tom Daschle, Democrat from South Dakota, managed to work out a way to share power and run the Senate. ...

FMR. SEN. DASCHLE: Well, I think theres a lot of responsibility to go around. I — frankly, I think the president has to take some of that responsibility himself, with what he said this morning, with his tweets this afternoon. I dont think you can avoid taking responsibility when you make comments like that. I think there are others as well who have incited this kind of violence. Its all those who are behind the conspiracy theories, the — all of the social media that goes on by the day is ju...

God. so he just told fox hes doing everything in coordination with the defendant but hell take a vote to be impartial. how do you square that up? >> he also said there, he absolutely guarantees the president wont be removed from office. in the same interview. i saw it as the three equal branches of government working well last night. the presidency, the senate, and fox news. its really outrageous but not surprising. this isnt how it happened in 1998. senator lott and senator daschle went into a ...

President. i think it made a big difference. we moved a lot of legislation, in part, because we were all on the same page. thats exactly what we need now. it would be great if we could come together every tuesday, at least every other week and say what could we accomplish where we all do it together and try to build the momentum, building on bigger and bigger things? it could be nominations, some small piece of legislation. to unify around some procedural effort to pass or nominate could go a lo...

We need him. he is a very thoughtful, gentle man. he does a lot for our state and our country without being pushy and nasty about it. if he doesnt win the primary -- i certainly hope he does, then certainly im going to reach out and try to work with chris mcdaniel. >> all right. senator lott, senator daschle, the report is fantastic, but depressing that you had to write it down in many ways. thank you both for fronting this. up next, a race to build a coalition government in iraq. andrea mitch...

>> you represent your clients. we disagree. senator lott, senator john breaux. if we had agreed, you wouldnt be working for those guys. up next -- its a campaign you have to see to believe. a republican running for congressman. basically advocating taking up arms against the government. this is the closest thing -- well, im not going to say it. the closest thing to lets revolt that ive seen. youre watching "hardball," only on msnbc.