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Explained on nondiscriminatory grounds. what say you? >> the facts are harvard's admission is like a melting pot, 50% of their applicants accepted are minorities. 50% are women and 23% are asian americans so i don't know how they are contorting these numbers but not just based on s 80s and act scores so to determine the eligibility of these students, the data focusing on one subset. harvard is a melting pot. >> harvard says this. harvard does not discriminate the admissions processes. we will continue to defend the right of harvard and other universities to seek educational benefits from a cla...

Increasing in california prior to prop 209 and they have not increased as much since prop 209 was put in place. there's no evidence in the state of california that this will necessarily harm the admissions processes for chinese americans but politico seeing an opportunity to continue the fight to assault and dismantle affirmative action. >> increasing representation of asian americans in schools is one we see around the country and part of the changing landscape on this. i'll go to you on that, victoria, is the asian american community doing a disservice by fighting affirmative action in cases...

Laws. not just voting, but also possibly the use of race through admissions processes. >> okay. back to section 5 for a moment. to be very clear here, as you are, i want our viewers to know that if section 5 is knocked down, this takes away any kind of federal oversight. and i think the point here that needs to be made and clarified, what latitude legally does that give state governments to start running elections? could they not come up with laws that would make it very cumbersome to disenfranchise people, disincentivize people to go out and even register? what about that? >> well, basically ...

People, the denial of something they're entitled to. but if he does have with him four other justices, the section could be struck, but the act would survive. and what that means is that it would apply to all 50 states. but the most active component of the act, section 5 would be nullified. and you also have to keep in mind, ed, the importance of the comments today may also have significance for an opinion that we're all waiting for, which is the fisher case. and that deals with the ability to use race in college admissions. and many of the comments today really left folks worrying about the c...

So this was -- he was talking about a provision that deals with the disenfranchisement of people, the denial of something they're entitled to. but if he does have with him four other justices, the section could be struck, but the act would survive. and what that means is that it would apply to all 50 states. but the most active component of the act, section 5 would be nullified. and you also have to keep in mind, ed, the importance of the comments today may also have significance for an opinion that we're all waiting for, which is the fisher case. and that deals with the ability to use race in...