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Something like that in a general way and this probably was wrong. >> also brought face-to-face with the justice department civil rights attorney who knows him well and who was asked, is sessions a racist? >> i dont really know whether he is or he isnt. i probably ought to know, but i dont. i really cant say. >> but the would-be judges biggest problem came in a case he prosecuted and lost. a vote fraud case involving black civil rights leaders in perry county, alabama. defendants in the perry cou...

However, his record of hostility to voting rights obliterates the other positive things that hes done. and let me go back for a minute. the attorney generals position is the most important law enforcement position in the nation. the attorney general has a responsibility to ensure equal rights for all americans. but jeff sessions has shown both in his career as a u.s. attorney but also in his career as a united states senator, has been hostility to the enforcement of civil rights, particularly in...

The turner case. and i think thats something that has to be looked at. but he is also someone who had voted against, for example, the matthew shepard hate crime law. he showed hostility to the violence against women act. this is an individual who has shown a hostility to the enforcement of civil rights laws even though the position of attorney general would have a particular responsibility in that area. heres whats important, though, steve -- >> can i just ask you, though, to make the point but ...

Ballots. >> ballots were changed from the way people cast them. >> johnson turned it over to jeff sessions and asked the u.s. attorney to monitor the 1984 primary election. >> i told him basically what i just ould, that we had sheer fraud here in the balloting process in the county. >> some blacks whose absentee ballots were changed were bused to mobile to testify. everything went smoothly. others say they were terrified. >> i dont believe those people who were carried to mobile in that bus will...

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The turner case. and i think thats something that has to be looked at. but he is also someone who had voted against, for example, the matthew shepard hate crime law. he showed hostility to the violence against women act. this is an individual who has shown a hostility to the enforcement of civil rights laws even though the position of attorney general would have a particular responsibility in that area. heres whats important, though, steve -- >> can i just ask you, though, to make the point but ...

>> i have to say when you zoom out from the individual cases and the activism and look at sort of the broader politicals context, you know, barack obama very famously talked and said i have a son that looked like trayvon. and that created backlash. why is it the case this movement happened at this moment in the history of this nations struggle with first black president? >> well, you look at barack obama, everyone projected on to him. i think people on both sides of the political spectrum projec...

Street baking in the summer sun. >> i have to say when you zoom out from the individual cases and the activism and look at sort of the broader politicals context, you know, barack obama very famously talked abond said have a son that looked like trayvon. and that created backlash. why is it the case this movement happened at this moment in the history of this nations struggle with first black president? >> well, you look at barack obama, everyone projected on to him. i think people on both sides...

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>> also brought face-to-face with the justice department civil rights attorney who knows him well and who was asked, is sessions a racist? >> i dont really know whether he is or he isnt. i probably ought to know, but i dont. i really cant say. >> but the would-be judges biggest problem came in a case he prosecuted and lost. a vote fraud case involving black civil rights leaders in perry county, alabama. defendants in the perry county case were albert and evelyn turner, political and civil rights...