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Didn't fall very far, we've just sort of been there, things aren't getting worse. on the other hand, the world is changing. the skills you're node to survive in the world and compete in the world and also we're now in a global economy competing for skills. that we need to be making progress on the start rather than going behind. i think what also has people nervous is that this comes despite many years now of the united states being focused on this question no child left behind, other pieces of legislation. common core debate. state efforts to improve things. and we're not making progress. >> ...

Protecting it, not curtailing it. at a time when republicans have rolled back abortion, the bill introduced today by senator richard blumenthal and other democrats would federally protect women's ability to access abortion, by heading off state efforts to close down clinics and to otherwise impede access to what is supposed to be a constitutionally protected right. honestly despite senator blumenthal's enthusiasm on chris's show just moments ago, that bill is not assumed to go anywhere, at least as long as republicans control the house. if that bill ever does pass, though, it would be the firs...

Good choice. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now, this abbey vanity combo is a special buy. just $299. last month when the supreme court struck down section 4 of the voting rights act, the court opened the floodgates to a tidal wave of state level restrictions. but the administration and activists are not standing idly by. yesterday president obama met with civil rights leaders to pledge his commitment to strengthening what he termed a wounded voting rights act. the meeting comes against a dramatic backdrop of state efforts aimed at complicating and endange...

>> exactly. >> and in a way, i think reince priebus and the boys with their multi, multi, dozen state efforts to keep the blacks from the voting booths aroused -- you tell me. >> no. i think the voter suppression efforts drove up the black vote. i think they ticked people off and they made people more determined to show up at the polls. you saw that effect particularly in a state like ohio, for example. which was sort of ground zero. they really thought they had something going in ohio. it turned out they didn't at all. because the black vote was -- was greater than the white house proportiona...

"washington post" eugene robinson. the two best possible people to talk about this. first of all, the stunning fact. it's stunning because i fwru up in philly where you had racial division up the kazoo for many years and still does. the black vote, because rizzo seen as the enemy of the black community drove off the vote. if he's mayor, i'm going to show up and vote to protect myself. >> exactly. >> and in a way, i think reince priebus and the boys with their multi, multi, dozen state efforts to keep the blacks from the voting booths aroused -- you tell me. >> no. i think the voter suppression...