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I'm glad the justice department is moving forward in texas. i want them to do that in north carolina and any other state that has put in place these laws that are really going to be damaging to people's right to vote. >> and that's the real point. people have been voting for years with their i.d. there's been no widespread fraud. yet you come in with a new program. it is a solution looking for a problem rather than a problem in need of a solution. and one of the people who just filed a lawsuit other in north carolina's voting suppression law is 92-year-old rosenel eaton who has compared to the...

Rights act that would require approval of any changes that they make, similar to what the justice department did in texas. we know that north carolina has a history of this. our main plaintiff is a woman who voted -- who registered to vote in the 1940s. she's 92 years old. she had to pass a literacy test where she had to recite the constitution, the preamble to the constitution. here it is all these years later, 70 years later, where we are going backwards, where she may not be able to vote because the state has passed a law that will not make elections free, fair, and accessible. >> how did t...

So the question, now, is north carolina, are you next? partisanship and access to the ballot and the right to have your vote counted. they've been on the front burner of our politics for centuries. at the 1964 democratic convention, mrs. fannie lou, a sharecropper turned activist, explained to the democratic party, their faces, what it was like for her to try to vote in her home state of mississippi. >> it was the involvement in 1962 that 18 of us traveled miles to the county courthouse in indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. we was met in indianola by policemen, highwa...

John boehner and eric cantor and today's hearings are just a start of a debate that while it has split the republican party to some degree there have been some reasonable republicans left in the building. >> the concern the supreme court had is with that 1965 law. based on old data. it as simple as updating the data then? >> it's a great question. look there's one way to do it very directly to john roberts concern which is to update from the literacy test. you can use data from section 2 and take a different approach looking at where discrimination is happening now include more of the north. l...

Days people, and harold, i would love your input and gene still with us. >> still here. >> love to have your input on this, gene. when i hear my dear friend al sharpton comparing the changing of early voting to what happened with bull conner in birmingham and the south, john lewis loves to do that all the time and john is a good friend of mine, but you know, or a voter -- telling somebody they have to bring a photo i.d. to the voting booth and comparing that to the poll taxes or the literacy test or comparing that to the outrageous hateful despicable things that took place before 1965, they lo...