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Suppression, and when people can get elected through voter suppression, we don't have the voting rights act, so the courts is our only recourse, and the courts are undermined. >> on that note, i was looking at the news in "the observer" this week and there was an astonishing piece from a professor at the university of north carolina at chapel hill writing about the voing landscape in north carolina. "if it were a nation state, north carolina would rank right in the middle of the global league table, a deeply flawed, partly free democracy that's only slightly ahead of the failed democracies tha...

There's clearly lot of stories about the wikileaks, all positive and not just dnc hacks but positive about julian assange and allegations besides the dnc hacks. >> you worked for jared kushner and joined us on the "the beat" before with that unique experience. is this something jared kushner would be aware of or just going on anyway? >> couple of possibilities. important context, editor and chief of the paper was close friend of the kushners and russian operative. plays into the story a little bit. not first time that hired a freelancer parroting talking points from the russian. another who wr...

Weinstein. what have you learned about this list of weinstein's a as i understand it? >> it's making its way around the web. this is described by the paper as a hit list. weinstein and his team put this together months ago when he was trying to defend himself and trying to stop "the new york times" and "the new yorker"ing from look into his past. if you're harvey weinstein and you know reporters are snooping around trying to find out about the women you've paid in the past to keep them quiet, what do you do? apparently you make this target list with dozens of women on the list for private inve...

As kushner warned that trump threatened more reaction. within three months an aggressive report on schneiderman did come out in a paper owned by jared kushner. alleging that schneiderman had been heavy-handed it featured a cartoon depicting schneiderman from clockwork orange as a sociopath. back story may be more interesting. "the new york times" reporting that the observer's editor at the time asked a 28-year-old ice cream store manager, to write the article and he wouldn't do it. and gifford said kirsten described schneiderman as a bad guy and a phony and send in a negative article about sch...

They knew each other well, but they seemed to be on good terms. before schneiderman went after trump university. >> and jared and ivanka had a lot of good relationships with democrats as his father did. you said jared's father in law is donald trump, given the family relationship, "the observer" took great care to ensure fair, unbiased journalism throughout the reporting. >> i just think it shows how ethically slippery these characters are. which matters in regards to the bloomberg story, because this is somebody who is so deeply indebt and deeply compromised that even if he had the most bulle...