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Trying something new, like trump? >> well, it turns out one thing they may have to lose is their vote. that is according to some civil rights experts. much political attention on russia this week. meanwhile, attorney general sessions backed out of a key part of the challenge to voter i.d. laws, which judges had held discriminate against black vetters that have some concerned that sessions may not apply some laws on the books like the voting rights act, which is part of the job of the acting attorney general. lehigh professor james peterson, university of baltimore professor michael higgenbotho...

Embrace party activists more to left where as they would have kept them at arm's length in the past. >> michael and che, looking at our discussion of the dissent out there, thanks for your time. stay with us as our number two of the point continues. we have more on president trump's explosive allegations of wiretapping by president obama, even though he's offered it with no proof and breaking last hour, fbi director comey pushing back. we'll explain. i also have on two former federal prosecutors to drill down on the law and how wiretapping warrants actually work and our special as promised on ...

For the iraq war. as a result, george w. bush became the first president to actually pick up seats in his first term during a midterm. that is a precedent that democrats do not want to repeat. >> and so, michael, final thought, does that message get through to sort of the democratic establishment, you know some of those folks. they always seem more dubious about the base than sometimes republicans do. >> they have historically. i think that's changed a little bit this time around. just look at chuck schumer, for example, the senate majority -- or minority lead erk ter, who i has a liberal voti...

Central park in the summer of 1982 to demand a freeze of nuclear armaments. now, democratic leaders of the time were very ambivalent about this. tip o'neill embraced the nuclear freeze movement. then senate majority leader, however, robert byrd, did not. it didn't matter, however. democrats want 27 house seats in the fall of 1982. it was the largest such gain opposition party to a first term president had achieved since -- for 50 years since herbert hoover. now, thinking about that, the nuclear freeze movement did successfully place in the minds of voters a skepticism about ronald reagan. even...

Was true. he didn't consult with the people inside the government who might know before making his claims, sources tell nbc news. and today the white house says a congressional investigation is needed to resolve this. that means saturday, trump claims these charges and by sunday his staff says they need an inquiry to see whether if what he said was true. believe me, that's not good. and it provides support about meeting that libel standard, about whether that statement was false. benjamin zipursky, a fordham university professor said it would be viewed as defamatory in its content. the questio...