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In a democracy, we should want more people voting, not less. but some republicans think different. joining me now in south carolina, the one and only congressman jim clyburn, assistant democratic leader. congressman clyburn hosted the big event this morning. huge turnout. i thank you for being on the show tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. and thank you so much for being here with us. >> and you had students, young people with a lot of enthusiasm in the room. why do you think there is this effort, though, with voter i.d. and other methods to suppress the vote? >> well, i think that a...

Short, and that makes, if you believe the wisconsin-ohio flip, that makes new hampshire, virginia and nevada, maybe the last three tough states. obviously the president feels good about his demographic advantage in nevada and they feel good about the social issues playing in new hampshire. look what that does. brings us to the one state i've always believed is what replaces florida and ohio this year. virginia, virginia, virginia. and it's also not an accident as to why they picked charlotte being a state that borders on virginia. they think they can transfer energy up there. north carolina ...

Business as usual. any outside group on any issue that sees there to be an opportunity to use that issue to get lever and for their own issue, and they don't like eric holder will. so this is business as usual. but the challenge for each of us in congress is to try to stay focused on what's really at stake. there's a very important congressional principle here of oversight. this is where my view is i wish mr. issa would have worked with committee democrats because we support an investigation and support congressional access to documents but we want a complete investigation and have it beyond t...

Playing our system? if i can get you lost in the details of an irrelevant budget debate, is that not victory for the system that intends to maintain that status quo? >> in a literal sense which you preach about on your show every day, in terms of the deficit, the budget issues we're dealing with, it's about this big when you compare it to the whole big slice of the pie. the way the republicans see this, this is the first fight of three. threes the debt ceiling coming up in may that could go into the summer. the debt ceiling will be the huge issue especially when we talk about the economy of th...

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