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Well as i do that 2008 was a huge election year for young people. they were actively involved, and i think what young people are seeing as well as other communities are seeing is that their right to vote is being challenged. you have students right now who are in states where they're being told that their state i.d. from a public state institution is not good enough to show up and vote. so i think they're realizing how they're being affected in way that is are relevant to them as well as the historical pieces that i think judith talked about that we saw from 1965 until now about protecting the...

National plan where you set a requirement that all states must, must accept any government-issued state i.d.? so if it's a college. let's say from texas tech then people in texas have to accept that. >> i don't support voter i.d. as a requirement of voting as a matter of principle. but if you're going to create a better national system of voting with mandatory early voting with a limitation on early poll closings, with a whole range of things to improve democracy, we can have a discussion. but i don't support the fundamental principle of saying all of a sudden now we need to have voter i.d. la...

Not only in the south. it is in the north as well. you must remember in '65 voting rights act, it also included new york. before i left new york yesterday, we were dealing with questions of the redistricting, what will happen to the harlem district, for example. this has been a national problem. when you combine that as you said the voter i.d. laws we are marching about today and all of this week, it is a real critical point in where we are dealing with how will the concentrated black vote demonstrate itself both locally with congressional fights and then nationally, where you are going to hav...

Laws are putting provisions in for people who can't afford to get their own valid state id. >> don't stop believing that one. >> well, it is true. they are putting the provisions in. >> so there won't be any problems for anybody to vote? >> you may disagree, but i am saying that's the work around there. >> i don't think you can pass the voter id law because it is a defacto poll tax. >> it is a super convincing argument. if you need an id to drive a car you need one to vote. i get it. that's not america. that's not the constitution. >> you are the constitution. >> i am wearing a sweater over a ...

That's all we do. couple hundred a day. 100, 200 a day. before you guys go, when you go we're going to search you, right? if you have any letters for home boy, any [ bleep ] you're taking out, we're going to take it. okay? if it's your [ bleep ], okay. but if it's somebody else's, we're taking it from you. if this thing's hot you're not going to go, we're going to keep you here and write it up. if they have contraband, if it's serious contraband they won't make it out the door. they'll be violating before they leave and they'll stay in prison. i give them a heads up that i'll search them so th...