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Russian/u.s. anti-propaganda outlet? >> i can't comment on that, ms. sewell. >> my final line of questioning is in regard to mr. flynn working as an agent of a foreign power. director comey, following on mr. hines' line of questioning am i correct that the foreign agents registration act requires that individuals who lobby on behalf of a foreign government must register with the united states government? >> i believe that's correct. i know i keep saying i'm not an expert. the reason i'm saying that is, i don't know exactly how they define things like lobbying in the statute but as a general ma...

Can comment on. >> likewise i'm not going to comment on an ongoing investigation's conclusions. >> but again you're not going to disagree with general clapper, just not going to comment. the reason i point that out that's the situation the other way around you can't comment on something there's an inference out there because a person's name is brought up, because he may have worked for somebody at a certain time there's a guilt impliein th. i'm not in any way being crical of either you. i'm saying this is a situation i think n be damaging to the country, and does advance the russian interests ...

Place here? >> yeah, i think there's not much going back on these. we've seen the governor retreat a little bit by saying, we'll keep it open one day of the weekend. the other thing -- >> does it make a difference? >> i don't think, if you're somebody trying to get an i.d. and you can't get there during the week, having it open a few hours during the weekend is a huge help, and that's what the congresswoman and the others have said. >> actually, they passed this law in 2011. they didn't get it approved by the federal government, as they were required to do, probably because they knew that it w...

Voting rights act been in effect, that these decisions, a decision such as this that would directly affect voting, would have been something that the justice department would have stricken down, before it had the negative impact. >> no doubt. we'll keep a close eye on how the votes go down there in alabama. thank you, congresswoman terri sewell and msnbc's zack roth. still ahead, republicans are about to meet in around 20 minutes with several items on the agenda, including this man, will paul ryan become the next leader? but first, the movie trailer that broke the internet. reading the clues i...

Republicans do. you're seeing democrats bring this up, republicans try to shy away from it. although we did have jeb bush come out recently and say he wouldn't support reaffirming the vote rights act. so again, a very clear and stark difference between the parties on this. >> so i want to talk to congressman sewell here about the actual voters, because this is allegedly going to affect the people. we haven't had a presidential election under these new i.d. laws, but there was an election for governor in 2014. voter i.d. law affected somewhere between 250,000 and 500,000 voters. governor bentle...