less likely that sexual assaults would be prosecuted. goldy, explain to me, explain to our viewers as well, why is it so important for the military to keep this inside the chain of command? well, first of all, this is something that came up out of the revolutionary war when commanders did not have judges or other military police, or other people around who could help him or her well, him at the time, discipline their forces. so they did need absolute control. if one has one more stripe than you, you have to do exactly what they say, if it is a lawful order. that means more in terms of troop readiness. at the end of the day, we now have courts, we now have military lawyers. we have expanded military police force and investigators. we have the resources that we need. actually, this provision said that any law that was not exclusively a military law, and that was servable by one or more years in civilian jail should be
removed from civilian command. you can t get more deplorable than the current rate of prosecution and conviction and punishment than there is now in terms of military sexual assault. you can t get any worse than that. i don t understand what senator carl levin is talking about when he says moving it outside of the chain of command could damage the track record we already have. we have no track record here. marine and msnbc contributor, goldy, always good to see you. thanks for having me. up next, face to face with a 50,000-pound wild animal. it went through my mind, yeah, i might not be able to do it dpagain. i did it. it was incredible. that s the florida teenager who took into the gulf and took a ride on a whale shark. right, a whale shark. how the shark could have actually been hurt. all business purchases.
still trying to do what his daddy did and that s rob us from the right to vote. how much do you think the supreme court is taking into the digestion of the political cycle we just lived through? the examples we lived through, goldy, that then are implemented into the arguments, considerations being talked about today? i think reverend al sharpton is right. on the one side you have the very long lines. you have a limited number of voting machines in districts where they expect higher turn out. you have college students being blocked from the rolls because they didn t list their specific dorm room on their voter registration card. so we re a long way away from billy clubs, dogs, and water hoses. we re right up here with gerrymandering, putting causal impediments in place where people can t get to the polls. what we ought to be about is
people, even older people away from the polls. and those people who typically, most typically vote democratic. i think taking section 5 away, taking it away, takes away the most valuable portion because without it we can get these things through we certainly come a long way from literacy tests. i don t know if we ve come as far as poll taxes taus baus that gets to the issue of paying for an identification card to get the vote. as goldy brings up, certainly interesting to watch. the justices here, she brought up chief justice roberts. i want to show everybody in 2009, he said things have changed in the south and may no longer be justified by current conditions. the other justice to watch is kennedy. as we said, you have argued two dozen cases before the court. what do you think about how the justices and this look at the two men, roberts and kennedy, are the most important today? well, i think i was inside the courtroom until just a few minutes ago and the questioning
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