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This is what george stephanopoulos asked the mayor of indiana over the weekend. could a gay couple go into a florist florist's shop and could the florist say "i don't sell flowers to gay people." >> let's talk about the bill itself. >> because the governor did not answer that. >> i saw that interview. he didn't answer it. let's talk about a couple provisions. we have to look to the legislation itself. look at section v. what does it say? "exercise of religion includes any exercise of religion whether or not compelled or central to a central religious belief." it says "includes." it doesn't say...

Discrimination can do whatever they want. there's no stopping. the attorney general, no one can stop them. we had a 102-year-old woman at the state of the union address as a guest of the president of the united states who stood in line two hours to use and utilize her vote. you are telling people like that those lines are going to be there forever and longer. we are discouraging voters. this is absolutely unthinkable. >> reverend sharpton, to your point, what highlights the essentiality, the court has to be mindful of the real people protected by the protections in the places racial discrimina...

We still have a great distance to go. we hear the type of discussion that took place today, the question raised by one member of the court. when you travel through many parts of america and see people standing in unmovable lines, saying it's hard and difficult for people to cast a vote, we still need section v. it is the heart and soul of the voting act of 1965. we cannot stop now and we will not stop now. we will not go back. >> congressman john lewis thank you for your time tonight. if it sounds like i'm passionate and emotional about it and it's personal to me, it is. my mother, who raised ...

This process has been allowed to bail out of section v. it's not static. they can bail in. that is jurisdiction that is violated the constitution can be brought under section five. this is a statute where congress sent out a theme and also imagine that some would be uncovered in the future and some not currently covered might become covered one day. >> let's take a hypothetical, which is not a hypothetical considering what happened in 2012. say a state or a county tries to prevent minorities from voting by changing the hours, by basically voter suppression, how does that relate to their standi...

The congress in 2006 met that question. congress conducted 21 hearings over ten months, heard from 90 witnesses for and against reauthorizing section v, established a 15-page record. congress recognized in the jurisdictions, more than 1,000 proposed discriminatory changes were blocked. >> the point is and the congressman has been out there, we marched, we did all kinds of efforts all over this country last year when they were changing voter id laws, photo id laws, all of a sudden, the photo id we always had was no longer good enough. they were changing early voting days. they were changing bei...