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The turner case. and i think that's something that has to be looked at. but he is also someone who had voted against, for example, the matthew shepard hate crime law. he showed hostility to the violence against women act. this is an individual who has shown a hostility to the enforcement of civil rights laws even though the position of attorney general would have a particular responsibility in that area. here's what's important, though, steve -- >> can i just ask you, though, to make the point but i want to follow up. how different does that make him -- this is a republican who just won the el...

>> i have to say when you zoom out from the individual cases and the activism and look at sort of the broader politicals context, you know, barack obama very famously talked and said i have a son that looked like trayvon. and that created backlash. why is it the case this movement happened at this moment in the history of this nation's struggle with first black president? >> well, you look at barack obama, everyone projected on to him. i think people on both sides of the political spectrum projected on to him this desire to be abdicated of our responsibility as it relates to race, right? that ...

Street baking in the summer sun. >> i have to say when you zoom out from the individual cases and the activism and look at sort of the broader politicals context, you know, barack obama very famously talked abond said have a son that looked like trayvon. and that created backlash. why is it the case this movement happened at this moment in the history of this nation's struggle with first black president? >> well, you look at barack obama, everyone projected on to him. i think people on both sides of the political spectrum projected on to him this desire to be abdicated of our responsibility as...

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>> also brought face-to-face with the justice department civil rights attorney who knows him well and who was asked, is sessions a racist? >> i don't really know whether he is or he isn't. i probably ought to know, but i don't. i really can't say. >> but the would-be judge's biggest problem came in a case he prosecuted and lost. a vote fraud case involving black civil rights leaders in perry county, alabama. defendants in the perry county case were albert and evelyn turner, political and civil rights leaders for more than 20 years. albert was an aide to martin luther king. their scrapbook has ...