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Included the formula. if you thought it was 50-year-old data and a bad formula, why vote for it? >> i didn't want to throw out the whole bill. at the time we decided to continue it because a lot of it is good. >> but the point is -- to get back to the point, it's not 50-year-old data. we're talking about what goes on now. the voting i.d. laws, manifestly unjust, and the way racial je y gerrymandering as occurred in texas and florida and south carolina. we're not talking about having the ghost of mississippi or alabama or georgia assert themselves. we're talking about practices that are being u...

But i think it was a good judgment. and it's not going to hinder voting rights. >> in 2006, the formula wasn't on 50-year-old data. if you thought it was 50-year-old data, and a bad idea -- >> i would vote either i would throw the whole thing out or accept it. we just decided to continue it because a lot of it is good. >> but the point is, it's not -- to get back to the point, we're talking about what goes on now. the voting i.d. laws were unjust and the ways in which the gerrymandering that has occurred in texas and south carolina -- we're not talking about them asserting themselves now, prac...

African-americans, latinos, people of color are going to be more vulnerable to the m matinations trying to fence them out of the voting process, whether we're talking about moving polling stations, voting i.d. laws, all the things we saw happen in florida a few years back. i think they're not going -- we know that if section 5 is struck down, they're not going to have the kind of protections we've had since 1965. one other thing very important is that we're not talking about a formula that wasn't revisited. congress had extensive hearings, and there are tens of thousands of pages of testimony ...

And did have a recording device, but the republican guy missed it. he did not do the patdown well enough to find the wire and the fbi agent just kept recording. what would have happened if he had found the wire? so that's part one of today's news that leaves you feeling like you want to shower in bleach. part two involves this guy. governor ultrasound. we hardly knew you. in a political context, governor bob mcdonald is known for trying to portray a moderate image. that's how he got the nickname. on his way out of office, he is pushing more antiabortion legislation and has signed new voting i....

And did have a recording device, but the republican guy missed it. he did not do the patdown well enough to find the wire and the fbi agent just kept recording. what would have happened if he had found the wire? so that's part one of today's news that leaves you feeling like you want to shower in bleach. part two involves this guy. governor ultrasound. we hardly knew you. in a political context, governor bob mcdonald is known for trying to portray a moderate image. that's how he got the nickname. on his way out of office, he is pushing more antiabortion legislation and has signed new voting i....