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Cried with over the last seven years since jordan was murdered. >> each generation culturally has a cause. sitting at the lunch counters, you know, walking out of classrooms. it's the same thing. this is the civil rights movement that these young people are fighting for. >> change is here. >> we need a congress that goes out there and talks about this issue and gives us a deadline of when they're going to actually like be able to stop gun violence. >> he graduated in 2018 and taking a year off to focus on activism and he plans to attend harvard this fall. >> i feel as in the last year we have ...

Of the republican part of this partisan era really do go back to that point. what they would tell you if they were here talking about it was that it was senator kennedy's speech on judge bork the day the bork nomination was announced. and he said robert bork's america is an america of segregated lunch counters, et cetera. so there's a period, late reagan through clinton and the gingrich takeover in 1994 where a lot of the immediate precedent for the world we live in rests. >> this is why we needed to have you on tonight to ask you these questions. jon meacham, thank you for the answers and tha...

Partisan era really do go back to that point. what they would tell you if they were here and talking about it was that it was senator kennedy's speech on judge bork, the day that the bork nomination was announced. and he said robert bork's america is an america of segregated lunch counters, et cetera. so there's this period really late reagan through clinton and the gingrich takeover in 1994 where a lot of the immediate precedent for the world we live in rests. >> this is why we needed to have you on tonight, to ask you these questions. jon meacham, thank you for the answers and thank you as a...

We're not going to listen. we're simply going to stop it. when you pull back the historic string on this, the beginnings of the republican part of this partisan era really do go back to that point. what they would tell you if they were here talking about it was that it was senator kennedy's speech on judge bork the day the bork nomination was announced. and he said robert bork's america is an america of segregated lunch counters, et cetera. so there's a period, late reagan through clinton and the gingrich takeover in 1994 where a lot of the immediate precedent for the world we live in rests. >...

Ending the evil of one man owning another. and then a century later came another moral victory with the civil rights movement and the passage of the bill to end separate water fountains, white-only department store lunch counters and white-only restaurants and hotels. after that came the voting rights act. in each of these cases, the country's majority population backed the moral course, ending slavery, ending jim crow, ending the deprivation of voter rights, and we now face another historic point of moral conflict and for millions of voters moral decision. re-electing donald trump, given what...