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Sound in the background, thats what that is. if you guys have questions for sta stacey, please jump in. i met you as a fellow guest on msnbc, on a show where you were encouraging people to vengeance t -- to register to vote. voting rights has been central to what youve been doing in public life. ill ask the same question that i asked mayor tomlinson. have you been surprised at how aggressive and how, frankly, blatant the current secretary of state has been about removing people from the voting r...

In and stop hiit here. it is rare for a judge to do that and say you no what i understand the president here, this time i got to get in here and fix it. that happens today in the great state of georgia. in georgia as you know they are having a rock and sock em robot. top of the ticket, brian kemp and stacey abrams who was the democratic leader in the state legislatures. the last few georgia races have been close and heading into this election though, brian kemp has taken a mean ax to the voter r...

In i dont know 40 years who got bumped off the voting rolls in massachusetts. and then when he discovered it, it was too late to register. so we do everything we can to get in your way as a voter in this country. >> right. >> and it forces the voter to take on a real job. >> and the reason why its made hard is because those in power who are beholden to the rich, to the wealthy who control this country, who buy our politicians in our elections, the last thing that the top 1% want you to do is to ...

Abrams tomorrow. the democratic candidate for governor in georgia. oprah plans to attend town halls and knocking at the door. the doorbell rings and nobody rings the doorbell. you answer it. and its oprah. >> wow. that would be crazy. abrams is running neck and neck with republican brian kemp, georgias current secretary of state accused of trying to suppress the black vote purging tens of thousands of people from the voting rolls and enforcing a voter i.d. law that seems a tad impractical. he sa...

Taken off. you look here at the fellon law which is unusual. felons unable to vote. theres no doubt in your mind those are -- >> absolutely. by the way, last time i counted, there were roughly 70 pieces of legislation in something like 34 states introduced by republicans to suppress the vote. >> so, mark, georgia is in the news, but there are efforts all over this country to remove people from voting rolls, disqualifying them. whats your take on this? >> well, its not just georgia, its vice pres...

Suppressing -- >> by the way, last time i counted, there were roughly 70 pieces of legislation in something like 34 states introduced by republicans to suppress the vote. >> so, mark, georgia is in the news, but there are efforts all over this country to remove people from voting rolls, disqualifying them. whats your take on this? >> well, its not just georgia. vice president biden said theres 70 pieces of legislation in various states. were focusing on florida and georgia this race and a lot of...

Judge ruled that state officials must stop that practice and actually give absentee voters a chance to correct those errors. it is just the latest in whats become an onslaught of the allegations and evidence of voter suppression in georgia. as we reported more than 50,000 voter registration applications are on hold by the secretary of states office. a majority of them from african-american applicants. more than 100,000 voters have also been purged from the voting rolls statewide because they hav...

Could we please get over this? they lost. okay. so listen, lets talk about, this is a very important story we want to talk about. voting rights, a big deal in this race. the issue is kemps enforcement of a rule known as the exact match rule. now, this rule requires names on voting rolls to precisely match names in other state records, okay? so according to the associated press, of the 53,000 voters put on hold through this process, 70% of them, african-americans. heres what kemp said when he was...

Opposes the confederacy and supports the first amendment is extreme. i think she engaged in a first amendment action. the symbol is no longer on the georgia flag anyway. i mean, look, i dont think this is going to be relevant to most people. and i dont know -- i dont know what kemps position on the whole thing is, but at the end of the day, she has a first amendment right to engage in any kind of free speech she wants. and i just -- i dont think most people are going to take issue with somebody ...

Kamala harris, cory booker that would be your set-up for the presidential in 2020. here in georgia and florida youve got a couple of basically progressive democrats, african american, stacy abrams in georgia, andrew gillum in florida who had denied that hes a socialist running against two candidates who have aligned themselves with donald trump. so its a very conservative candidate running against the progressive. the other thing that i should point out, stacy abrams, for example, in georgia has...