alarms. let's look at what they have done. the recusal from the russia piece. support for voter purges. signaling attacks on affirmative action. there's a laundry list of things that raise alarms for all kinds of zifcivil rights groups. within that context it makes sense we should be rejecting this. they stacked the deck today. they overloaded so we really couldn't get the kinds of questions and answers we needed out of this particular appointment. it looks as if the doj is trending towards being the opposite of what it's designed to be from its leadership all the way through. they will be removing about 120 positions from the department of justice. all of this on the week where we should be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the forming of the civil rights division within the department of justice. >> that was formed because there was a recognition that this type of hate and this type of discrimination required a federal response.