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Prosecutors say involved stuffing the voting box with absentee ballots, destroying votes for a rival candidate and buying votes with an unusual incentive. senior correspondent eric shawn live in the new york newsroom with shocking details of this. eric, tell us how the scheme worked? >> hi, martha. the plan was vodka for votes, offering little half-point plastic bottles for vodka like this one we bought in arkansas to steal an election. that is what prosecutors say did happen in eastern arkansas. a scheme included absentee ballot fraud and buying votes in exchange for money and food besides th...

>> two weeks after the beatings in bold defiance of local authorities, martin luther king led 3,000 marchers over that bridge. when they reached montgomery days later, 25,000 marched with king. and that summer, congress passed the voting rights act. >> the '64 civil rights act was a huge u.s. government intervention into the hard-core racial segregation. of 65, was the real game changer. >> the act banned literacy tests and other jim crow laws to keep blacks from the voting booth. these had been the airtight ways to keep the descendants of slaves from having clout at the voting box and with it...

Worse than anything mitt romney was ever involved in at bain capital. here is a little bit of the attack. watch. >> more than $16 billion have gone to companies like solyndra that are linked to big obama and democrat donors. the inspector general said contracts were steered to friends and family. obama is giving taxpayer money to big donors. and then, watching them lose it. good for them. bad for us. >> reporter: tough stuff that is unified message that will be seen across the gop spectrum this week. the conservative independent gop group, american crossroads led by karl rove has a similar att...

But just taking the numbers as they are, it's clear that he's got a problem that goes well beyond wall street. a significant problem on wall street without question, and that can be laid at the feet of financial reregulation, dodd-frank. but, and also a perceived view that this administration is purely anti-business, anti-capitalism. megyn: but that's the thing with wall street. here in, you know, new york city, new york state -- >> right. megyn: -- is not going to go red. they are not going to vote for the republican presidential candidate, right? i mean, overall -- >> i think this is where w...

First year out of law school. it's tough to look at her and say i want to help you out financially. the war on women even though it's resonating with voters right now does that withstand the test of time or do women go into the voting box in november and just say the economy is doing well, getting better, i'm going with the incumbent. or it's doing poorly, i don't believe it's getting better i'm going with the challenger. >> you know a week in politics is a lifetime. what is going to happen with syria, with iran. we just saw missiles in israel. certainly we as americans can be diverted and los...