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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100925:11:38:00

remember the black panther intimidating the voters? >> racial bias against whites led to the gutting of the blank panther case. >> i believe president management and the sectional opposed to the race enforcement of section 5 and continued to enforce those revisions in a racially sective manner. >> coates got to testify after being blocked by the justice department for a year. >> a bank teller is forced to rob his own florida bank with a bomb strapped to his guest. he was questioned for eight hours by the f.b.i.. according to the 25 year old. three men broke in his home and held him and his father hostage. police said it was unusual.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100924:21:59:00

slurs. >> reporter: coates now an assistant u.s. attorney told to civil rights commission that the obama administration enforces the voting rights act in a racially selective manner. >> a large number of people working in the voting sector believe correctly and vehemently that enforcement of the voting rights act should not be extended to the white voters, but extended only to protecting the racial, ethnic and language minorities. >> reporter: a spokesman called the probe a so-called investigation, and thin on facts and evidence and thick on rhetoric adding that the department makes enforcement decisions based on the merits and not the race, gender or ethnicity of any party involved. the department has involved the civil rights commission with thousands of pages of documents and testimony from the assistant attorney general for civil rights. the d.o.j. told coates not to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100924:22:00:00

testify despite a subpoena. today, coates claimed whistle-blower protection because he felt ethically, and legally and more ally bound to tell a story, but democrats say it is more about politics. wolf, back to you. >> thank you, jeanne, very much. happening now, clouds on the horizon are getting darker for democrats as the election closes in. we are getting a new sense of what voters are are saying and feeling and best news yet for republicans. also, the american hiker recently freed after more than a year in a notorious teheran prison met with the iranian president mahmoud am din jad, and she is revealing more details of her ordeal with us. and bill clinton's weight loss, he talked to me earlier this week on how he did it, and i will talk to the doctors ant the diet that transformed the president in time for his

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100924:11:05:00

animosity towards him or towards any iranian people. >> uh-huh. >> i -- and there's no reason for animosity. in a situation like this, i don't know who is making the decisions. i don't know why what happened to us happened. >> sarah shourd's fiance shane bauer and friend josh fattal are still in prison. they are accused of spying, a claim they deny. ahmadinejad sparked outrage by saying the u.s. orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. expect some blockbuster testimony today when a government lawyer may confirm the obama administration is selectively enforcing voter intimidation laws. molly heneberg has the story in washington. good morning. >> good morning. the justice department has tried to prevent christopher coats from testifying before the civil rights commission. in this new black panther intimidation voter case but today, he will and it's not clear if he has the justice department's blessing to do so. coates is the former chief of the voting rights section at d.o.j. and expected to have some

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100924:11:06:00

inside information on why the obama justice department decided to drop most of the charges against members of the black panther party, accused of trying to intimidate voters on election day of 2008. a former justice department lawyer, jay christian adams testified before the civil rights commission earlier and said the justice department wanted to drop the case for political reasons and that coates would back up his claim. today we'll hear from coates. the virginia republican congressman has sent a letter to attorney general eric holder saying coates better not face he repercussions for his decision to testify today. >> live for us in our d.c. bureau, thanks so much for that update. >> you're going to love this -- this next little bit of video that has gone viral in the last 24 hours. chris christie, the very popular governor, republican governor in a very democrat state of new jersey was out on the west coast and he was doing a campaign

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100924:15:16:00

board in a race-neutral way and that's what he says this hearing is all about. so the commissioner is continuing to hear the testimony of coates and they are now asking him questions, trying to get more information, more details on how this could have happened. back to you. jon: steve centanni, keep an eye on it for us, thanks. jenna: your tea party questions, answered. three leaders of the movement on their strategy, their goals and their message to democrats and republicans. plus, a sitdown with freed american sarah shourd after 410 days of solitary confinement, how she kept her sanity, maintained her spirits and how she feels about america today.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100924:15:14:00

try and ask people to put together a spider's web that doesn't exist. >> reporter: now, if this resolution passes, it could take effect in as early as two years. jenna: a story we're going to watch. thank you very much. jon: thr-pbd braz new testimony in a case alleging voter intimidation. steve centanni joins us live from the u.s. commission on civil rights in washington, d.c. what's happening there, steve? >> reporter: jon, christopher coate sefplt is testifying today, he was told by the doj not to testify, they still don't want him to appear here but he's going to tell his version of the events surrounding the 2008 incident at a philadelphia polling place, when three new black panther party members who dressed in black and wielding night sticks, at least some of them, tried allegedly to intimidate voters, well, coates, testifying in strong language, saying it was a travesty of justice that the department of justice didn't go after these guys, and he calls the conduct of these black panther party members outrageous. he also claims the department of justice has a long term hostility for

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100924:15:15:00

neutral enforcement of the voting rights act, and he points back to 2005, when a mississippi election official was discriminating against whites on the way down to investigate, one career department official said i can't believe we're going to mississippi to protect white voters and it's that anger partly that led to this situation. listen: >> it is my position that the disposition of the panther case was ordered because of people calling the shots in may 2009, were angry at the filing of the case and angry at the filing of the panther case. that anger was the result of their deep seated opposition to the equal enforcement of the voting rights act against racial minorities and for the protection of white voters who have been discriminated against. >> reporter: and coates says that many appointees of the obama administration in the justice department also hold this deep seated opposition to enforcing the voting rights act across the

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