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But says there's questionable racist things up in there, and that makes a difference. again, i think we have to hear from him today and these folks testifying tomorrow and folks should not let sessions skate through here. >> they won't and should not, and tough questions are welcome from both sides and there are philosophical questions, and that doesn't make somebody a racist. this is a guy that prosecuted the first white man in the state of alabama, gave the death penalty for killing a black man. >> and he is also voting about the voting rights act. >> he has one vote to extend the voting rig...

We've got to go talk to everybody. >> one of the things that one of your opponents tom perez who is going for dnc chair said for the dnc to fly fund the voting rights component in the dnc. an office devoted to voting right, if you didn't hear about it. do you agree with that idea and how would it work under keith ellison as dnc chair? >> i agree with tom on this. tom and i are friends, by the way. like a friendly game of basketball. i'm trying to win, but no matter who wins, we're going to be buddies anyway. here's the thing, we absolutely have to fund that. but, let me tell you, i am the one ...

It's good to have you with me. i want to read a little bit of analysis from the "washington post" this morning about trump and the republican party when it comes to the topic of immigration. quote, trump speaks in ways that most republicans probably disagree with but the basic divide between the parties over what sort of posture to adopt towards the undocumented is deep and intractable. trump or no trump and could well remain a problem for the gop after trump takes his bluster back to private life. do you agree with that assessment michael? >> yeah i think there is something to that. it's ulti...

>> ten months ago, conservatives on the supreme court gutted the vote rights act. now the flagship conservative magazine the national review is arguing that the civil rights act and the voting right acts are forms of racial discriminati discrimination. and that chong shouongress shou those laws. in other words, they want to destroy the very protections against racial injustices that the laws established. this week, video emerged of a republican congressman saying he's not sure the civil rights is constitutional. >> is it constitutional, the civil rights act? i wish i could answer that 100%. i ...

This program about his trip to selma. i credited him for going to selma. it's great he went there as a symbolic event. but until these republicans come along with renewing the voting rights act, until they do that, then unfortunately, they will risk looking like this symbolism alone. >> and remember, that was a bipartisan effort. edward dirkson, arch conservative, former mccarthyite from illinois, put through that voting right, the civil rights after 1964, really rewrote it in the senate. and so it is possible, you know, there was a time when democrats and republicans could do what was morally...