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The voting rights act an intrusive piece of legislation, and i wondered if you could explain that as well as talk about how you will actively enforce the remaining pieces of the act. that would be section two, which prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, and the section three, bail-in provision through which most states can be subject to preclearance. you don't have to go into great detail on those two sections, you could do it later but if you could explain your opinion of the voting rights act and enforcement if you were attorney general. >> the voti...

Herald" went ahead and did their own recount of just 60,000 disputed ballots. it took three months and cost $500,000, anderson. >> so how often do these happen and who pays for all of that? taxpayers? >> well, they're not really common. there's a group called fairvote.org that look at voting practices and they take a look at all of the votes that happened at the statewide level from 2000 to 2012, and they found the number of recounts, out of hundreds and hundreds of races, just 19. now, generally, if it's an automatic recount, yeah, the state may pay for it. but if it's requested by somebody, ...

And we all remember florida back in 2000, the bush/gore race down there. there was a state recount going on. it was topped by the courts, but "usa today" and "the miami herald" went ahead and did their own recount of just 60,000 disputed ballots. it took three months and cost $500,000, anderson. >> so how often do these happen and who pays for all of that? taxpayers? >> well, they're not really common. there's a group called fairvote.org that look at voting practices and they take a look at all of the votes that happened at the statewide level from 2000 to 2012, and they found the number of re...

Grim day in american history, we can stop and acknowledge that race relations in the united states have come a long long way, but a new poll questions if things have changed enough. tomorrow marks 50 years since bloody sunday. it was march 7, 1965 when protesters tried to cross the edmond pettis bridge from selma to montgomery alabama. the crowd demanded civil rights for blacks but they were met by an angry sea of blue. some 17 people peaceful civil rights protesters were appallingly attacked by police. now decades later, even with the country's first african-american president, a new cnn/orc ...

Laundry ways to participate in the political process. voting is always supreme, and what we're seeing in the last two years is is a concerted efforts to keep segments of the population from voting in voter suppression tactics that are familiar from the 1960s but we were hoping we wouldn't see again. we're in courthouses all through the south trying to stem the tide in the shelby case that took away the protection that many voters had in the south discriminatory voting practices. >> the national urban league came out with their annual report, one nation unemployed. the 2014 state of black ameri...