voters, almost 800,000 do not have a voter id. and they say, look, 10.8% of hispanics don t have one and half of the nonhispanics don t. let me read you this pretty blunt and direct quote from the lawsuit. they said the state of texas history of official racial discrimination against its african-american and hispanic citizens is longstanding and well documented. federal intervention has been necessary toy eliminate numerous devices and intentional use to restrict minority voting in texas. mr. attorney general, it seems the administration is saying the lone star state is racist. let me respond you raised two points. let me respond to both. first in your question you raise all of these statistics about the number of minorities who may not be able to get access to id s. that s the same theory that they used in a court in washington, d.c. that that federal court already rejected. so they are basing their case on numbers and staw physician and statistics that were
bryce harper gets a chance to be the hero. 1-1. harper, deep left center, heading for the wall, it is gone! and the nationals win it! he s got a violent swing. he s unbelievable. strong kid. huge superstar. i thought they were going to be there every year. it s hard. that was his first walkoff of his entire career though. padres and brewers. milwaukee with a chance to tie it, but i love defense, mika. sometimes more than offense. how do you feel about that? mika is always on offense. offensive is away they call me. they won 10-8. team usa men s basketball team held a scrimmage in las vegas showcasing some of the best n a young talentalent.
just released a study that found some shocking figures about the extent of income inequality in the u.s. top 1% of earners saw their income grow by over 240% between 1979 and 2007. during the same period the middle fifth saw their income grow by just 19% and the bottom fifth had only 10.8% gain. how does something like that happen? well, look, i m really glad you re bringing that into the discussion because the first part of our discussion, while i think there is some optimism there, is about what we think of aggregate growth, the growth of things in the economy, gdp growth or the economy. what this is reminding us, you can have all the growth you want but if it s not equitably distributed, then a lot of families end up falling behind even as the economy improves. it s sort of like the economy is doing well except for the people in it. how does that happen? it has a lot to do with who has bargaining power, low levels of
if you want to arm the rebels to topple this regime to produce a unified syria you re going to have to have international peace keepers on the ground. if your goal is just to bloody iran and syria, our opponents, feed the rebels arms. let them defeat hezbollah, all these bad guys. then the issue is going to have to be you re going to be ready for the breakup of syria. lastly, if you re arming the rebels just in order to create a stalemate so they ll negotiate, ultimately there s no deal assad and the rebels are going to reach that, again, won t require international peace keeping force to somehow maintain. please do not will the end without willing the means. we tried that in iraq. it didn t end well. it s daunting. a head snapping segue. i want to segue from that to something that is back home here. a big issue for a lot of families, something that caught our attention this week from the pew research center. look at the percentage of the mothers as the sole or primary breadwinner in
if you want to arm the rebels to topple this regime to produce a unified syria you re going to have to have international peace keepers on the ground. if your goal is just to bloody iran and syria, our opponents, feed the rebels arms. let them defeat hezbollah, all these bad guys. then the issue is going to have to be you re going to be ready for the breakup of syria. lastly, if you re arming the rebels just in order to create a stalemate so they ll negotiate, ultimately there s no deal assad and the rebels are going to reach that, again, won t require international peace keeping force to somehow maintain. please do not will the end without willing the means. we tried that in iraq. it didn t end well. it s daunting. a head snapping segue. i want to segue from that to something that is back home here. a big issue for a lot of families, something that caught our attention this week from the pew research center. look at the percentage of the mothers as the sole or primary breadwinner in