Good morning. Im al sharpton. Well have more on the political fallout from the fbi investigation into Hillary Clintons emails coming up. But we start with the right to vote under attack just a week before americans go to the polls. People across the country are seeing stories like this. How would you like to have people watching every move you make at the polls on election day. But this election season one president ial candidate is calling on his supporters to do just this. Recent federal court ruling that ohio secretary of state jon husted illegally removed more than a million voters who hadnt cast ballots in six years. Tonight, some republicans are mobilizing as poll watchers saying theyre trying to prevent voter fraud. There are concerns this could discourage legitimate voters from going to the polls. More than 100 people in buford county are having Voter Registration challenged. 138 people had their status challenged, many were black registered democrats. You dont need to explain the importance of voting to 100yearold grace hardson. Shes been doing it longer than she can remember. Thats why when she found out her Voter Registration status was being challenged due to undeliverable mail, she was upset. I dont have the mail coming to my house. My mail has been coming to the post office. Thats right. A North Carolina republican challenged the status of 100yearold grace hardson. Were seeing National Efforts too, a group called vote for texas is backing donald trump and trying to recruit 3,000 poll watchers in key battleground states. And a leading militia group, oath keepers, is enlisting former military and law officers. Call to action to go and hunt down, look for vote fraud and voter intimidation and document it to do the best we can to stop this election. I want to stress to our guys, we dont want the bad guys to know which that were out there. We want them to worry about whether or not theyre being watched. They want people to worry about being watched. Make no mistake about where this is coming from. Donald trump has led the charge, cracking jokes about the democratic process, while also calling for poll watchers. Just thinking to myself now, we should just cancel the election, and just give it to trump. We have a lot of Law Enforcement people working that day. Were hiring a lot of people, putting a lot of Law Enforcement. Were going to watch pennsylvania. Very quickly, were going to watch pennsylvania. Go down to certain areas and watch and study and make sure other people dont come in and vote five times. So i hope you people can sort of not just vote on the 8th, go around and look and watch other polling places. Democrats are fighting back. The dnc filing a lawsuit to prevent voter intimidation by the Republican National committee. And the first lady is urging voters not to fear and instead hit the polls. So when you hear folks talking about a global conspiracy, and saying that this election is rigged, understand that they are trying to get you to stay home. Vote early. Vote right now. Leave here, go vote. And dont let anyone take that right away from you. One person who isnt backing down is grace hardson. She beat back efforts to take her off the rolls and she says she will be voting. Joining me now is cherilyn ifill, president and director counselor of the Naacp Legal Defense Fund and educational fund. And michael walidman, president of the Brennan Center for justice, also author of the fight to vote. Thank you both for being here. Thank you. Cherilyn, how concerned are you about voter intimidation tactics in this election . You know, reverend al, i was concerned about this election, this is the first president ial election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights act pause of the Supreme Courts 2013 decision in Shelby County versus holder. And we have seen all of these voting changes that happened since 2013, because jurisdictions no longer had to report these changes to the federal government. So we were already concerned about this election. We assembled all of these voting changes in a report called democracy diminished to demonstrate that we need to Pay Attention in this election. But in the last several months, as there has been this discussion about the election being rigged, and about sending people out to do poll watching, our fears have absolutely and exponentially increased. We take very seriously the issue of voter intimidation, which is absolutely against the law. When you hear mr. Trump saying, people should come out and watch people vote, the right to watch outside the polls, of course, is the right of a citizen to stand outside the polls and to watch. But when it becomes intimidation, when people are suggesting that there are certain people who are not eligible to vote, when youre not bothering to educate those poll watchers about the protections of the Voting Rights act and other federal laws, then i think youre creating a recipe for disaster on election day. I spoke to you the first week in january of this year, you said that democracy itself would be on the ballot. Is it worse, though, than you even thought . We have seen this before, but i dont know about at this level, the Republican National committee is under Consent Decree and were seeing this operating here, that could raise questions about whether or not this Consent Decree has beens to prolonged past december 2017 when it runs out. Thats right. In that particular case theyre going to be forced to argue, oh, no, thats not the Republican Party, it is just its president ial candidate out there, loudly demanding that people go try to intimidate voters. Reverend under Consent Decree before being discriminatory in terms of trying to intimidate people at the polls for this very same thing. Exactly. And, of course, it goes back decades. It goes back centuries. In some ways looking from january to now, in some ways it is better, in some ways it is more unnerving. How is it better one of the good things that has happened is states have brought these laws forth, they tried to do these things, they were allowed to move forward because of the Voting Rights act gutted by the Supreme Court, but courts across the country, federal and state, and republican and democratic judges stood up to protect the right to vote. In North Carolina, in texas, in many other places, these laws were blocked because they violated that most basic and Central American principle. But now, and partly in response to that, you have donald trump saying, oh, the election is rigged, saying, oh there is massive voter fraud, a myth of pernicious proportions. And saying basically in a Cartoon Version what a lot of these politicians have been saying for a while now. Hes the nominee, cherilyn, this is not Somebody Just somewhere that we had to deal with down through the years in the civil rights community. This is the nominee of the Republican Party. One of the two major candidates. And ill give you another thing to respond to, you have the conspiracy theorist alex jones who is a trump supporter, and hes cheerleading the call for poll watching. Watch this, cherilyn. Donald trump is announcing on his official website an area for people to organize and get ready to be poll watchers and also to be exit pollers. He wants real polls. Is this the level of paranoia and fear that is being put out there to use people to do things that are not only biased, because theyre telling them what areas to go for these alleged fraudulent acts that arent there, but it is also illegal. Yes, so, reverend al, i want to make ur i ssure i say this b there is so much of an effort to promote ignorance about voter alleged voter fraud and as michael pointed out, it is a pernicious myth. There is no large scale voter fraud in this country. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than in person voter fraud. Lets be clear what the law is. The law protects every citizens right to vote. Which means that right cannot be a bridge based on race or skin color. The Voting Rights act specifically protects against voter intimidation and voter harassment. People need to know that disabled people, those who are blind or ill literate are allow to have someone assist them in the voting booth. These are the kinds of things that people have to become educated about. When i hear that, when i hear about all these people out at the poll, coming out at the polls, let me be cler, iar, im proud of my civil rights colleagues, we kind of know what were doing, im pleased also that the Justice Department although they will not have the same number of election observers inside polling places, well have poll watchers out in 25 states. So i really what i dont want is for people to be scared off by these tactics of intimidat n intimidation. We have been doing this, well be out there, not just the Naacp Legal Defense Fund but many other groups and act vaivists protecting this right that people fought for. Whatever paranoia theyre trying to create, were going have a steady eye and vision of who we are as citizens. Thats what i wanted to open the show with. All of us will be out there from various groups and the Justice Department. And nonpartisan. Nonpartisan. It is very important. It is very important. It is nonpartisan. This is a basic right. If people have any problem, they can talk to the folks who are there, call 1866ourvote. The Election Protection hot line which so many groups are part of. I think cherilyn ifill is right. A lot of what trump is saying may turn out to be just talk. In fact, the millions of people who have fought for and won that right to vote will be able to vote without obstruction and we need to not let anybody scare us away from the polls. Thats why i wanted to open up sunday morning with it, the determination of miss hardson, 100 years old and wont be turned around and neither should you. Cherilyn ifill and michael walidman, thank you for your time. Still ahead, well dive into the latest on the fbi and Hillary Clintons emails. Also, new details on the republican confusion over a simple question. Should they support donald trump or not . But first, my interview with clintons running mate, senator tim kaine on civil rights, donald trump and more. Thats next. 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Safe communities, great education, and high paying jobs. My vision rests on a principle that has defined this campaign. But the latest polling shows just 4 of black voters support trump for president. The campaigns diversity adviser promised this week that would change by election day, predicting trump would get at least 16 of the black vote. I spoke by phone about this recently with Hillary Clintons running mate, senator tim kaine. This was before the latest news about the fbi email investigation. Kaine talked about his own record on civil rights, compared to donald trumps. For 17 years, about twothirds of the work i did was fighting housing discrimination against people who were turned away because of the color of the skin or their disability. And really right about that same time, donald was making his way as a real estate guy, got sued by the Justice Department, in 1973, for a very massive housing discrimination charge with respect to nearly 40 of his properties and sued again in 1982 right about the time i was starting law practice. So he didnt learn his lesson. Both instances he basically entered into Consent Decrees where they promised under order of the court to do better and i just think thats one of the things that really energized me about this race. I was also a missionary in latin america for a year and when i hear him talk down immigrants and special latinos that combination of being anticivil rights and being antinew american kind of infuriates, it gives me the energy, i dont have a voice left, i have the energy left to you would not buy that he would be the one that could give a new deal to black america, senator . Reverend sharpton, of course hes going to say all kinds of things now, but, remember, this is the guy who not only had that history in the house and world of discriminating, but for five years he perpetrated the bigoted lie that president obama wasnt a u. S. Citizen and i always say to people, dont let him just walk away from that unchallenged. He said that in virginia, in richmond, what my friends thought about, it brought them back to the time when in the United States, youre africanamerican, youre born here, born free here, you could not be a u. S. Citizen. Thats what the decision said, you couldnt be your grandkids couldnt be u. S. Citizens. Why would donald trump after no evidence after conclusively proven over and over again that president obama was a u. S. Citizen, why would he say our first black president wasnt a u. S. Citizen . The level of disrespect hes shown for this community is huge. Not just the africanamerican community, you know, he doesnt pay taxes to support the troops, but now hes going to be great for the military. He doesnt pay taxes to support the veterans, but now hes going to be great for the vet. He said hes going to be great for everybody. Those are words, his life history shows otherwise. Contrast your record in terms of women rights, civil rights for africanamericans, and others, when as youve been governor of virginia, with governor pence. Youre directly running to be the Vice President of the United States. Well, this is an important one. And i think our nation, even though our founders were flawed, they had the wisdom to say equality should be the measuring stick for our country. I dont know there is another country out there that says there is one measuring stick and it is equality. Lgbt equality, i urged the Supreme Court to recognize marriage equality, governor pence opposes it, says it will lead to societal collapse, wants to put justices on the Supreme Court that will with respect to womens rights, i think, you know, look everybody has the right to have their own moral opinion about issues with respect to reproduction and abortion, thats very fair. But i dont think government should be making Womens Health care decisions for them. Women should be able to make that for themselves and so i support roe v. Wade, allowing women to make these important decisions for themselves, governor pence wants to roll that back, to the ash heap of history so they can use criminal law to prosecute and punish and jail women that make that choice. Thats a huge difference. With respect to africanamericans, you know, i not only did i serve as a civil rights lawyer for 17 years, but i was the mayor of a great city richmond, our current mayor dwight jones is a mutual friend of both of ours. They trusted me to be a mayor for everybody. And i did the same thing as governor. I worked for everybody. And this is the kind of administration that youll have if hillary and i have the fortune to be able to serve. You were the first person on a president ial ticket to ever give an entire speech in spanish. What spanish phrase best describes the Trump Campaign in your judgment, senator . You know, i was at a church in miami a couple of weeks back and they asked me to come up and talk and i got up and talked for ten minutes in spanish to that latino audience, they said, thats making history. Why was that making history . Nobody has done that before during the campaign. Thats been fun for me. 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