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True. he held the birther belief for a long time. that wasn't true. >> find out. that's all. >> no problem with having an investigation. >> the senate races and congressional races. find out what's going on here. >> does that make sense? >> no. it's just not -- it's just not a nationwide problem. this is something that happened occasionally. we need to have a good process where we have clear voter rules and all of that is true. what he is describing is not voter fraud. people being registered in two states is not voter fraud unless they vote in two states. there is a second part to it that is ...

Highest profile crusade against moderate and established republicans. >> a federal judge rejected an effort to restore 38,000 names to virginia's voter rules. they say the names were possibly purged by mistake. the evidence did not convince him anyone was disenfranchised. ken cuccinelli trailing democrat terry mcauliffe in the state's gubernatorial race. and the president opens post polls shutdown term on immigration reform and a new farm bill. good saturday morning to you. what is the president planning to take on first and how does he plan to do it? >> alex, i think you will see a strong pus...

You want to see the lines at the polls? look at this. bloomberg news dug up this photo today. this is birmingham, alabama, in 1966. this is the first election after congress passed the voting rights act. it puts the states in the old confederacy under special scrutiny because those states earn special scrutiny on account of their past behavior. the rights act is there to make sure texas doesn't wrongly purge voter rules or mississippi doesn't require new forms of i.d. it's not much, but the voting rights act is more or less what we have in terms of federal leverage. federal enforcement for the...

Scrutiny because those states earn special scrutiny on account of their past behavior. the rights act is there to make sure texas doesn't wrongly purge voter rules or mississippi doesn't require new forms of i.d. it's not much, but the voting rights act is more or less what we have in terms of federal leverage. federal enforcement for the right to vote. today on a day that could not have been a bigger news day any way, today the u.s. supreme court announced that they are going to hear a challenge to the voting rights act. the lead plaintiff in the case is shelby county, alabama. just outside b...

>> actually, the numbers just came out a minute ago. 535,000 voters is what the democrats lead the republicans by. now, in 2008 it was a 657,000 voter edge. what is interesting is that florida's voter rules have become basically blacker and browner, and the democratic party has responded as well, whereas the republican party is becoming whiter where. hispanics have grown about 22% in the state, they've grown 26% on the democratic voter roles, but only grown 9% on the gop voter roles. so the changing demographics of the state are going to haunt the galena park, if not in this election and futur...