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Question. and meanwhile, we'll have lots of voting changes all over north carolina, georgia, other parts of the country, that we won't even know about and the impact that those are having on african-american and latino voters. >> what do you mean by that, there will be changes we don't even know about? >> well, in the world of -- if the pre-shelby world, any time, if you were in a covered jurisdiction, any time you had a voting change, you had to let doj know, and then they would do a quick evaluation as to whether or not it may be problematic under the voting rights act. now people can make v...

Form of government i.d. >> the justice department will file suit against the state of north carolina to challenge portions of that state's highly restrektive new voting law. >> the justice department tackles voting rights in the tar heel state. >> this new law would shrink rather than expand access to the franchise. >> there's a direct correlation between the voter suppression laws we see going on the books now and the attempt to tamp down on the african-american vote. >> these voting changes were adopted with both a purpose, the intent, and the effect of restricting the franchise and discrimi...

Speaker, he's also no stranger to shutdowns. this is congressman boehner dumping out a bunch of coal during the 1995 shutdown. he called it a christmas gift from president clinton. look at the hair. the obama administration is taking the state of north carolina to court. today the justice department will file a lawsuit to block new voting rules. the new rules scale back the time period for early voting and state voters must show a valid photo i.d. critics say it will disenfranchise minority and elderly voters who are less likely to have i.d. supporters of the law, including republican governor...

The d.o.g. calls it discrime gnaw terry. they said we will not allow the decision to be determined as open season for the states that are seen as measures that suppress voter rights. they will take actions against jurisdictions that hinder access to the ballot box no matter where it occurs. we will fight aggressively for voter disenfranchisement. we will look at remaining sections of the voting rights act to guard against discrimination and where appropriate to ask federal courts to require pre clearance of new voting changes. this in the lawsuit is the latest suit. north carolina could be nex...

Get permission in advance before making any voting changes. but you can be sure that there's going to be lots of court battles on this. the law doesn't take effect in 2016, so there's plenty of time to duke this out in the meantime. >> pete williams, thanks so much. appreciate it. i want to bring into our conversation zach roth, national political reporter for msnbc.com, judith brown, who's the codirector of the narc advancement project, and sirius xm's michael smerconish. judith, i want to start with you. we have the north carolina governor putting up this video on youtube, not giving intervi...