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But they are creating this hysteria basically as well on a racial basis. they're stirring things up saying that ex felons and illegal i will jens will be voting. >> i wanted to bring joy reid in here. you spent a lot of time in florida. i wondered if there was something in particular around this that you wanted to respond about. >> absolutely. it's good to see my good friend gihan who i knew for a long time. >> how are you in. >> how are you doing? >> i'm good. >> the situation, they were caught -- not called the association. they call themselves lincoln academic. changed their names. >> abc c...

People that came out in 2008. >> gihan, when you say electoral uprising, you mean voting? >> voting. unprecedented numbers. yes. unprecedented numbers of people -- of the new rising electoral. young people, women, latinos came out in 2008. it was an electoral uprising, a beautiful one. when the extremists came to power in 2010, part of their vow was to put down that uprising. they have a view that politicians should decide their electorate. not an expanding electorate deciding their representatives. so they went to all sorts -- >> gihan, this point is such a critical one. what we're looking at...

That he would introduce this legislation, but rather the role of the doj. in fact, it's one of the things that i think the obama administration has not been as up front about in terms of a real victory that they could be which is how aggressive this department of justice has been in an attempt to try to stop these kinds of measures. jonathan, let me let you in here. >> absolutely. i would add to everything said, that the tremendous irony of this round of voter suppression in florida is that the 2011 law ha started this snowball from rolling down the hill is inciting voter fraud as a -- the pub...

And fun to really make the democratic voting experience what it should be. a right for every citizen here to participate in the process. and that they can't take away from us. we're doing that with partnerships across the state and people in the state from the naacp to the lawyers committee on civil rights that's doing lexapro tex to national protection and florida immigrant coalition. all of the organizations are working in a much more coordinated way more than anyway before. educating our folks. taking calm from confusion and really saying that we won't be intimidated. we'll have people at t...