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Just curious a year later after writing this book, after going around talking about it, after remarkably successful, i know you had a lot of people reaching out to you across this country and the world to talk about the book, what have you learned and one later, what do you know today that you didn't know when you finished writing that book about baldwin and the state of america? >> you know, joe, thank you so much for allowing me to come on to talk about the book. america is always changing but america never changes. one thing that is so important about the book is that we were in the midst o...

Party has been doing, a concerted effort in georgia and other states to roll back voting. slavish devotion to filibuster that bears no relationship to the filibuster our founders knew that's totally empowering of a small minority. a party that's scared to have people vote in washington, d.c., and puerto rico. a party that's hell bent on getting nominees to supreme court to strike down legislation they don't like that's passed by majority of people. this is antimajority party in the end and collapsed party that's lost its moral ground. like the ussr in the cold war, yes, they have bluster and s...

Legislature is concerned with expunging criminal records, they should start with the tens of thousands of students who are arrested in school for minor misbehavior last year or if the many people of color unable to vote in the state of florida because of the state's broken criminal justice system. >> absolutely. this is a state where they are constantly in the legislature looking for ways to roll back voting, roll back early voting, make it more and more difficult for felons to reobtain their right, something the former governor charlie crist did, opened it up, made it easier to get your right...

S♪ i'm a hard, hard worker dand i'm working every day. ♪ ♪ i'm a hard, hard worker and i'm saving all my pay. ♪ small businesses get up earlier and stay later. and to help all that hard work pay off, membership brings out millions of us on small business saturday and every day to make shopping small huge. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. even before the supreme court decimated the voting rights act this week, we knew there was a problem under the 2012 election where we saw unprecedented efforts to block the polls. rolling back voting and other schemes. a sena...

It's great to see you. >> great to be back. thank you. >> the obama campaign jumping on this drive to get enough signatured by the end of the week to put ohio's new voting law on the ballot. how is the campaign helping out? and do you think ohio needs the help here? >> well, we always welcome the help from -- these are mostly activists, citizen activists, people that have volunteered for the obama campaign in the past. this is a huge volunteer effort. people from all corners of the state. signatures from 88 counties. anybody who wants to sign in ohio who hasn't yet, call the headquarters. ther...