this weekend as well. and salon.com's joan walsh. thank you, both for being here. >> good being with you, rev. >> congressman, a lot of your republican colleagues who went to selma with all of us don't want to work on voting rights. how do you explain that? >> well, look reverend al what i'm hoping takes place here and i agree with what senator coons just said is that i was talking to a number of my republican -- i'm glad they came number one. but there was a number of them who were relatively young. so i'm hoping that they really had not studied and understood the real meaning of what the voting rights act stood for and why it is intricately important for them to work on it. when i go back to washington d.c., i'm going to talk to them and say, look this is an american issue that's not just for black folk but it's for all americans and if we're going to talk around the world about a democracy, then we've got to make sure that democracy happens right here in the united states.