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To be precleared. case in point for why this state needs to be covered by the voting rights act and why congress needs to act on the amendment. section 4 being gutted does not bode black mississippi voters well at all. >> jamelle, you were writing about cochrane's attempt to reach out to african-american voter. you wrote, and i'm quoting you, if there was a time to support cochran, now is it. if i were voting in mississippi, i would swallow my partisanship and cast a ballot for cochrane. eñ givenen the circumstances he's probably the bestñr÷?ñ one. do you see cochranes ises as the lesser o...

Like abe lincoln. go ahead. >> i was going to say, jamelle, it's worth noting that you noted this, levied the first income tax on the country, something conservatives hate. i though there's a lot of back and forth online and in print about race this week, and going back and forth about conservatives and their relation to it. jonathan, who has a massive piece in "new york" magazine, hotly debated, he writes, effectively racial conservatism used to be similar things, now they are effectively the same thing. i think no other person bears this out better than rush limbaugh, i must play a choice pi...

Fell from it were out of military necessity. they did this not because he was a bleeding heart but he realized to beat the south you had to destroy their property and destroying their property meant freeing slaves. >> it's like the republican party knows it has a problem with women and minorities and every single time you bring up the question of skin color, they go back hundreds of years to lincoln and they're like, wait, what's that you say we have a problem with black people? what about abe lincoln? abe lincoln was long ago and it's the thing that conservative return to. >> to echo what jam...

And he's got an attorney general who is helping him. >> jamelle, the country's first american african-american president is exacerbating racial tensions presumably because he's talking about lbj's civil rights legacy. >> i don't know what that's supposed to mean, right? like talking about race is exacerbating racial tensions? in which case we can't talk about anything, we can't talk about income equality, means talking about the racial wealth gap. if obama were to talk about the racial wealth gap, he's exacerbating race. for a large segment of the right, most of the right, there is a complete ...

Large positive economic times for the country. on the other hand, he embarrassed the nation, he breached his responsibility, i think, as an adult and as a leader in his relationship, and i think that's very unfortunate, but i don't think that's hillary clinton's to explain. >> so, you know, jamelle, you heard the beginning of the answer, mitt romney said this is what the race should be about, about hillary's record, then the back end, we heard him sort of echo some of what we've been hearing from rand paul off and on over the past few weeks, as well. which is it going to be, hillary running on...