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Is that colin powell is willing to talk about issues that are relevant to the black community, like affirmative action. he's been very vocal about, you know, saying that we still need some forms of intervention that recognize that black people the not yet play from a level playingfield and i think that's a substantial difference. actually, i agree that i think there is -- one of the things that the republicans see and are taking advantage of is the fact that they can get black vote if they think about how they're reaching out to black voters. i just don't think a tim scott, particularly given ...

Prosecutions. the two years later that investigation led to an indictment of seigleman on a medicaid fraud charge that was such a terrible case the judge threw it out for lack of evidence before a single witness had a chance to testify. then, in 2005, the u.s. attorney's office indicted seigleman again, this time on rico charges for allegedly giving a state position to a donor in exchange to donations to a campaign the governor was running, not his own, to state lottery to better fund the state's schools. the national prosecutor managing that case, was u.s. attorney allow are can necanary. and...

Wrong place at the wrong time and ends up with a sentence so harsh it offends our sense of proportionality. and in some cases, the person has transformed himself so completely from the crime and you give a new person a chance of redemption through a new life. the bad news is that president obama has used his ability to pardon less than any modern president has. in four years he's only pardoned and commuted 23 sentences while at the same point in his presidency george bush hat pardoned and commuted 23 sentences. this is a case where i and many others believe, demand mercy. the first is don seig...

Tension. >> i think you're right. one of the things i want to talk about here is the way, in the south, that you have partly because of the way redistricting has gone. partly because of the voting rights act and the way they worked together. is that the racial divide and partizan divide have come to sit atop each other almost -- you have the case with black voters and black elected officials who are democrats. white voters and white-elected officials who are republicans. there's not a lot 06 of overlap in either direction. i'm not talking about the novelty of a black republican. there's not th...

Republicans. this notion that we vote democrat in mass, because of some strange predeelection tied to our race is -- >> very little difference in the south between a white southern democrat and a white republican as it relates to -- >> that is absolutely not true. >> that is absolutely true. >> ask a family on medicaid whether that's the case. if you have a -- if you have an elected official that doesn't believe in the allocation of medicaid, significantly reduces medicaid, that significantly reduces access to education, that significantly reduces -- there's a difference. >> on the margin, vot...