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Consequential for voters to be able to elect their leaders but to ensure our democracy lives up to its promise of equality and justice for all. and so i think we have to get a foothold back into federal oversight and nothing can do that better than h.r. 4. and so i think that h.r. 1 and h.r. 4 complement each other, but it has to start with us getting the full protections of the vra back into effect. and that's exactly what h.r. 4 does. and i think that, you know, we need to put the pressure on republicans. voting rights has always been a nonpartisan issue. the vra was reauthorized five times ...

The question is how much do you put the taliban in that process and how much can you trust them to move forward in this process? >> part of the deal is assurance from the taliban they will never give safe haven to terrorists again. the question is, nick, can that be trusted? >> right now i've been told the taliban is giving safe haven to what were described to me as al qaeda sleeper cells, that they are being monitored, they're given food, they are not fighting. if there is a deal and the taliban should have a foothold back in the carpool, you'll have the taliban back where they were essential...

They had everything they wanted in syria. they were the brokers. you know, it was notable last week, jake, when they were bringing together the parties in the cease-fire the united states was nowhere to be found and you had secretary of state tillerson and nikki haley saying perhaps assad need to give in power. what does this give russia, geopolitically the foothold back in the middle east that they have been trying to get a year and a half. it was mission accomplished until this happened and the explosive allegations out of the pentagon yet to be proven will definitely heat things up for when...

The question to ayman, thank you for joining us. you're over there. the thought of, for years, i was growing up russia and cairo had close relations until saddam came along and broke those relations under nixon. so are the russians coming to do this war against isis? are they really going to do it? >> well, they're certainly dropping the bombs for it. but there's still a lot of questions as to how much russia is behind this to really fight terrorism or to try to prop up be shar al assad of syria. there's no doubt about it, that russia has been trying to warm up some of its relationships, those...