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2000 stopped the recount in florida. i want to talk about 1982. when reagan reauthorized and got his party together and reauthorized the voting rights act. and called it the crown jewel ow american liberties. i want to talk about 2006 when george w. bush despite attempts to water down the voting rights act among his party, passed a clean re-authorization of the voting rights act. by a majority of the folks in the house and the senate. right? if you're talking about doing everything that you can to make sure that we protect american democracy, right, we look to -- he took two bullets in the che...

They believe will actually benefit republicans. >> bill, house speaker pelosi tweeted out this photo of what she called mcconnell's graveyard in response to legislation. it goes to the senate and nothing happens. obviously some of this stuff they would never support but among them are bills like lowering prescription drug prices. the re-authorization of the violence against women act which used to be a fairly bipartisan piece of legislation. why kill those? i don't understand. if it's something that could be bipartisan and could pass. >> someone went to open the door, some bipartisan things, o...

That means that they are losing everything. this will make recovery harder. >> sounds like once you can move, we're in the middle of it now, but it sounds like long term, one of the issues to emerge is the need for more people to have flood insurance in areas that might be hit. >> yeah, more flood insurance. we got to stop building the way we're building where we're billing. it's just getting worse. we're not going to build a response big enough to all of these threats. the national flood insurance program is up for re-authorization. we need to take a hard look at that program. getting people ...

Political fortune is now wedded, for better or worse, to mr. trump. >> he should separate out the pack and they have their own political enterprise that's separate. it's clear the koch organization is concerned about issues. they are concerned about trade. they are free traders. they want a more tolerant immigration policy. they are concerned about spending in the omnibus. they are concerned about re-authorization of the export/import. i was with them on two of the four issues. they are alarmed by the trade issue. i think that's motivating them. that's why they are not participating or activel...

Kathy caldwell, she's on the phone. we don't often do interviews on the phone but this is really important for people to understand. kathy, thank you for joining us. let me understand, in a place like alabama which is running out of c.h.i.p. money without this re-authorization, what does that actually mean for a family that has a child that gets their health coverage from c.h.i.p.? >> it will probably quite devastating news to these families that their children's coverage might end. they rely on it for all of their well child visits, for this they get sick, for hospitalizations, for their medi...