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The dismissal of this case which adds fuel to the fire this is a political decisionen not one based on the merits. now we hear that perrelli was meeting repeatedly with this woman cassandra butts. put that in perspective. >> perrelli is meeting are the one council who is not only a farmer lawyer at the naacp defense counsel, but she was a woman who had been blogging prior to the obama administration criticizing the voting section and the bush administration for their handling of voting cases. me...

But that loyalty to the city in which he was raised is a different subject from the attention that he is commanding. the cleveland thing, i kind of, loyalty, i grew up in a time when teams were loyal. >> teams are not fully loyal today. they will cut you if they need to. so i get your point, but for them it is a business. should be a business for him too. >> i know. we use our sports figures to teach, teachable moments for our kids. here is a teachable moment, i want you to teach me. the new bla...

And you are an agenda. its been a week now. i want to give a chance to respond to the attacks on you. >> the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few. they have posted my performance reviews, my awards, my salary, you can see how much i was making. other justice department supervisor from the past have come out and posted a pajamas media, people who worked with me about my integrity and my profession agoism and my impartiality. go look at it and judge for youre several. the facts are the fac...

Dead people from the rolls. megyn: its illegal voters, felons, people who shouldnt be on the rolls. if they are on the rolls when voting day comes along it could lead to voter fraud. >> amount in right. and it has. there is plenty evidence in the last presidential election a lot of ineligible felons did in fact vote. megyn: you say a woman by the name of julie fernandez who is a deputy assistant attorney general within the doj, she is no small ranking person, this is a person with power, a polit...

Are attempting to cover up a political agenda. >> a lot of people dont like the enforcements of section 8. various groups have been concerned more about section 7 of motor voter, the welfare offers and so forth. they should work handle in handle. both sections should be enforced. the problem is its a political football. one administration goes one way, one goes the other. megyn: alberto gonzales was our attorney general 237. they came into the department of justice and complained that the voter ...

Mississippi in the 60s, he says its the worst case of voter intimidation he has ever seen in his 40 years of practicing civil rights laws. megyn: it was clear to you a case needed to be brought. >> slam dunn. nobody thought there was think doubt this is the clearest case of voter intimidation that ive seen since ive been practicing law. megyn: when the case was originally filed who was at the top, was it president bush or obama. >> it was president bush, january of 2009. megyn: the case gets fil...

That the voting section would not be pursuing these sorts of cases. megyn: who specifically has issued that mandate? >> well, you know, there are some things im not going to reveal as far as who they are. they know who they are. theyve said that if somebody wants to bring these kind of cases its not going to be done out of the civil rights division. if a u.s. attorney wants to do it that is up to them, but its not going to happen out of the civil rights division. megyn: lit me ask you this, is i...

History. for someone to say something like that should give you chills. megyn: perez testified whether laws at justice department are enforced in a racial neutral manner. question, it would be what problem then if any political appointee or supervising attorney expressed the view the voting rights laws should never be enforced against blangs and other racial minorities. answer, that is not our practice. we look at facts and the law. >> if he had discussions with all people in the his shop he wil...

>> if hes had discussions with all his people in his shop he will know thats false. there is a hostility in the voting section and in the civil rights division to bringing case on behalf of white victims for the benefit of national racial minorities. thats a fact. it was on open display in the department. i write about this as my pajamas media piece. its perfectly clear to anybody in the department that there is this hostility. they are hiding behind this shield of people really knowing the trut...

>> there is a pervasive hostility to bringing these sort of civil rights cases. i worked on other ones at the justice department. by represented both black victims of racial discrimination, hispanic victims and in this case a white victim. there is a pervasive hostility within the civil rights division of the justice department towards these sorts of cases. megyn: do you believe the doj has a policy of not pursuing cases if the defendant is black and the victim is white. >> particularly in votin...