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subpoenas from the legislature. they do not have to hand over any documents. the judge ruled that their fifth amendment claims, basically, were legitimate, because it is reasonable, she said, for them to fear that they may face criminal prosecution related to their roles in the bridge lane closures. the judge in her ruling today said they could, feasibly, be criminally liable under new jersey's official misconduct law. and according to the judge, quote, it is reasonable for mr. stepien and miss kelly to fear that they currently face the hazard of prosecution in the federal investigat...

Include the other voter suppression measures and the voters will have to stand up in november. >> seems to me they were going to go until you stopped them. the fact is, they got away with the golden wink, made those changes on early voting and registration. husted said i think it's time to stop playing games and resolve the issue like reasonable adults. that is damage control, as i see it. >> it is, ed, but he went a step further and said, there's no need to do this, because the auditor will take care of cuyahoga county if they decide to break the law, so to speak. so he went a step further to...

Make no mistake about it, they are antivoter and will stop at nothing to suppress the vote. >> both the governor and husted did a reversal on this, almost as if they got caught because of the pushback on all this. they thought this might have been a bridge too far. what is your take on -- what's your response to that? >> well, they can't run from their record, though. this legislature, this gop-controlled legislature, is their legislature. this is the governor's legislature, and this is secretary of state john husted's legislature, so they can't run from the voter suppression bills that have a...

>> the middle class. >> let's put the politics aside and do something that actually works. >> give america a raise! >> every democrat should be on board -- >> we're prepared to vote now. now! >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. it is all in the numbers. always a numbers game. the number will be how many people will go to the polls in november, seven months from now who believe that if they give to the power the democrats and something really good will happen. we begin tonight with a disturbing number every american should really be caring about. $2.1 trillion. that's a ...

Fitzgerald. ed, husted says, look, we've got a ton of early voting and republicans in the state are saying it's very expensive to keep this open. they're also saying this is bipartisan consensus, we solicited opinions. what's your boeef here? >> we're not dealing with this problem in a vacuum. we know what happens when we don't have extensive early voting in ohio. the world has a videotape of what it looked like in 2004 in ohio when we didn't have evening voting, when we didn't have voting on the sunday before elections. and this is predictable what's going to happen. and so there has clearly ...