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They're getting away with it so far. in the courts the question is whether they had a discriminatory intent with the laws. a point gene was alluded to. >> that's right. and especially now, under the voting rights act, in its more weakened form since last summer. it's more dif skult to get these laws struck down. one interesting point about, about this. it was enacted. hadn't gone into effect. that's because alabama itself did not try to get the law approved. they knew it was going to have a discriminatory impact wasn't going to with stand the voting rights act. >> gene, the reason they needed ...

Comes out to one out of every 15 million perspective voters. that is a lot of zeros. zach, after the decimal point to show how rarely this happens. when you look at alabama. they're getting away with it so far. in the courts the question is whether they had a discriminatory intent with the laws. a point gene was alluded to. >> that's right. and especially now, under the voting rights act, in its more weakened form since last summer. it's more dif skult to get these laws struck down. one interesting point about, abut th about this. it was enacted. hadn't gone into effect. that's because alabama...

Weren't going piecemeal and now we are doing that in ways that please congress and don't provide an incentive to make a bigger budget deal of the kind that everybody knows we need to have. and so i'm wondering why even though it passed with a big majority, if, you know, the president could veto legislation and if he makes it clear he is going to veto legislation elbow probably stick with it. i'm suggesting that's a tool he might use occasionally. >> sure. i agree with that, gene, but i think in the real world, vetoing that bill would have been crazy, because everybody wanted that faa situation...