Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170110:16:51:00
People who casually saw the news probably saw it otherwise. these were good people who had tried, asked me to get involved in this case in 2002, majority african-american grand jury with african-american foreman, i asked the federal government to investigate the 1982 election. i declined. i hoped that investigation would have stopped the problem, but two years later the same thing was happening again. we had african-american officials pleading with us to take some action. we approached the department of justice in washington, the public integrity voting section. they approved an investigation,...