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Around one thing, issues imperative and important to women of color in this country. alex, we looked back at the alabama senate race and saw the undeniable influence of african-american woman there, 98% voting for doug jones and playing a big role in getting him elected to the u.s. senate. their goal here is to harness that power and use it to make a difference in the midterms. i spoke with a number of people who were attending this summit this weekend to ask them what is the most important thing that they have on their minds as they go into the midterms this year. take a look. >> the most imp...

Say on that. americans need to know that when you allow people to get elected by racialized voter suppression, guess what, it's not just about black people. the people who get elected by racialized voter suppression are also anti labor rights, antiworkers' rights, antiworking wages, antipoverty programs, anticivil rights and women's rights, immigration reform, anti-health care. and the ugly irony is more white people, particularly in the south, get hurt by those who get elected because of racialized voter suppression. at the very time that if 30% of african-americans that are unregistered get ...

Including governors, too. >> the thinking here is that, all right, we make those cuts, but we make up for it in people's lives by this job creation. >> right. >> there's no guarantee of this. >> no. these are two very distinct philosophies here. you have got a philosophy on the right that we're going to create so many jobs and grow the economy so strongly that you won't need expanded food stamps, expanded -- overlapping and maybe mismanaged antipoverty programs, right? we're going to focus on the job part of this. and also, they want to cut taxes. they want to cut taxes and grow the economy. t...

Criticizing them as racists. >> i would say with all respect to eric, has it backwards. you didn't get jobs until crime is brought down. new york saw. that we brought crime down. and the economy is worse in the inner cities. the economy did not get better because of a government program. we've been spending trillions of dollars on antipoverty programs. it wasn't until police saying, got data driven as police commanders for crimes in their jurisdictions but the effort to demonize the police is leading to police backing off and people are dying as a result. >> another thing that is striking is t...

Ring. webb a novelest decorated vietnam vet and outspoken critic of the iraq war is vowing to bring an outsider's voice to the race with a message centered on helping working-class americans. an impressive figure this morning from senator bernie sanders, raising $15 million for his presidential campaign in the last three months. most of that money coming from small donors. sanders has been rising in the polls and just attracted a crowd of 10,000 in wisconsin. but he's still trailing far behind hillary clinton, who raised three times as much. presidential hopeful rick perry is reaching out ...