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I look back. we say this used to be such a bipartisan issue and really when you look back at the voting rights debate back in the '60s, it wasn't just moderate liberal republicans, but some of the most conservative republicans in congress back then were behind the voting rights act in the 1960s, and that was a story through reagan and bush. if you say the vast majority of republicans would be for it, why isn't it getting a vote? >> well, obviously the bill has been held up in the committee, and you're correct, steve, back in the 1960s, larger percentages of republicans voted for it than did de...

Very much. let's dig a little deeper right now with our cnn political commentator and washington correspondent ryan lizza, gloria borger, and author of the book "carry on." reacting to what we just heard from brianna, gloria, what does this tell you about the president's style? >> he threads the needle. that's what he was trying to do here. if you go back to the history of president obama, you know that when he ran as a senator he was anti-surveillance, as a candidate he was, as president. he's been very much pro surveillance. what the snowden affair points out is that there have been problems...