Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190617:17:52:00
To get pre clearance to change anything dealing with your voting rights legislation, that anything that changes. the truth of the matter is, i happen to be, i thought we had made real progress. i was chairman of the judiciary committee, a ranking member. when we extended the voting act last time for 25 years. it was a five-year increment. i was there, did it 25 years. it's the chance that at the time that it happened, we had a unanimous vote, 98-0. all those southern boys and women voted for it. they went, i saw, maybe there is progress. maybe things are beginning to change. but what i vastly ...