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The justices. >> the president knows that there is constitutional legal ground. the supreme court didn't issue a legal impediment decision. justice john roberts said that they left the door open, and of those president plans to barrel through it. >> kellyanne conway not long ago, as you know, the supreme court ruled to block the question, finding the administration's argument, enforcing the voting acts right, simply didn't match up with the evidence in the case. democrats are calling into question the motivation for the question on citizenship. they suggest it's really about suppressing hispan...

Said he does not want to see the federal government to interfere against local statements and those who need the federal government to protect from the state and county governments that may have been doing things that are discriminatory. >> thank you for that question. it gives me a chance to clean it up a little bit. first of all, the vice president's record is very clear he's always supported the federal government stepping in when states or municipalities and school boards acted in a manner that justified and enacted segregation. he was for busing in those instances. the bigger question, i ...

Last march to reinstate the citizenship question in the census. and the administration said it was going to do that. it hasn't been done since 1950. it was immediately challenged by several states and the groups. they said it was unlawful. what they wanted to do is sit down and interview or depose ross. >> why say it is unlawful why? because it will scare people away from taking part in the census? >> right. they want to get at his rati rational. he said it was done to comply with the voting acts right. but they said the real reason was to scare nonvoters from coming forward. that's why they w...

>> absolutely. i think there are two groups of people that the democrats are going to rely on to increase their wave, to lengthen and deepen their pick-ups. one is the occasional voters. the reason it is different is that in the democratic party you have these dynamic candidates of color who are appealing directly to those voters. >> right. >> they are running on issues that are fundamental, voting acts and medicaid expansion. there is actually people like these occasional voters for someone to vote for, so that makes a big difference. second group of people are people like me. women in the su...

Christians to speak out against jim crow, to speak out against the water hoses and bull connor and illegal voting acts in the south for suppression of votes. that's what dr. king day is supposed to be about, donald trump built a coalition in which the old george wallace or what we used to call dixie crats is part of the coalition. when trump started talking about the dreamers and love and culture and the hard right started, the alt-right came after him and he thought he'd throw a line to placate his base, if he didn't, he would apologize. my goodness, i didn't mean to offend all of these peopl...