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Has asked the justice department to investigate these dmv closures and msnbc national reporter, zack roth. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> representative sewell, i want to start out with a letter you sent to the justice department. you said, quote, despite a budgetary pretext, the consequence of this decision is to deny the most vulnerable in alabama an equal opportunity to obtain a means to vote. have you had a response yet, from the doj? >> i haven't had a response yet from the doj. i did see attorney general loretta lynch a couple of days after i sent the letter formally and...

Pessimistic about the process for a new formula is back in the '60s, voting rights cut across partisan lines. this was in a sectional issue -- >> right, i was going to say because democrats in the south didn't decide they were republicans yet. >> very much a sectional issue but seechla tension around openness to the voting system and it's kind of falling down partisan lines now and as long as that's the case, i don't imagine that being bridged. >> representative sewell let me ask you this you know the inside of congress in ways none of the rest of us do sitting here at the table. can you get i...

Restore the voting rights preclearance protections and so i think it's really important we learn the lessons of the past and we mobilize folks to really demand that congress act on restoring the voting rights act. >> so stick with us representative sewell but i love that representative sewell put this in a positive context. talk about the beholder was a positive challenge issued by the supreme court to the u.s. congress? >> a devastating decision. we had the supreme court upholding the voting rights act and what we're talking about is a particular provision called the preclearance provision th...