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Folks they're not worried about the devos nomination but wouldn't elaborate on why. one thing we know, her nomination will come before senator session's nomination. by one vote that could give her the nomination. is nobody else shaky on this matter? >> yeah, a great question. a couple senators we may want to watch carefully going forward are dan sullivan, who is a republican from alaska, senator murkowski's colleague, maybe dean heller of nevada. it's a big issue in those states. now a couple republicans have broken, more might follow. >> joe manchin, the democrat from west virginia, often vot...

For the next four years or eight years if if he was relengthed. and then there was this dust up at a separate hearing. take a look. >> america needs an attorney general who is resolute and determined to bend the arc. senator session's record does not speak to that desire, intention and will. with all that is at stake in our nation now with urgent need for love and healing i urge opposing the nomination. >> neil: that was senator booker who testified against his colleague jeff sessions and that never happened before. it happened today and the senator from new jersey said he did it out of princi...

Patrick sent a letter recommending against session's nominee as ag. back in 1985 as a member of the naacp legal defense fund patrick helped defend three black voting rights activists whose sessions was prosecuting on voter fraud charges during his time as a u.s. attorney. patrick writes in his letter to use prosecutorial discretion to attempt criminalize voter assistance is wrong and should be disqualifying for any -- joining me now, thank you so much. you are just the two people that i would dream of talking about on this topic. and may i start -- i will start you, cheryl. when the list came ...

Naacp legal defense fund. two of them, albert and evelyn turner were very close lieutenants of martin luther king and they were prosecuted by senator sessions and when he was u.s. attorney. they were acquitted. but this has not been forgotten and, in fact, that case and other statements made by the senator was one of the reasons why in 1986 the senate judiciary committee would not move him forward when he sought to be a federal district judge. so, the question then is what has happened since then in senator session's record? when you look at that record, that record does not look like a man wh...

>> it's a brilliant pick to put him in charge of a justice department that has been totally politicized. >> well, i think half the country would agree with you but half the country congressman is deeply fearful of what they saw as racist rhetoric from the campaign, you look at senator session's past and, yes, i know there was three decades ago but at the time he had charged three civil rights workers including one of the leaders from the selma montgomery march for voter intimidation after black voters were turning out. that will come up and in this divided nation, how will that assuage concern...