This February brings together the past and the present. Kevin McCormick, who is curating this month’s exhibition, “The Mountains are Calling” will present a…
0 safe travels back to the states. thank you, you re so welcome. joining me now is lechlt a i leila mcdowell. i want to start with you. you have this fantastic picture, you tweeted this out. you were on the plane with nelson mandela and his wife, winnie, after he was released from prison traveling around on this eight-city tour that they took. there s harry belafonte too. tell me what stood out to you the most, as you think back to the young lady you were at that time and now how you remember that specioexperience. well, i m still a young lady, but i think that what was so impressive about nelson mandela was both the gentle spirit, he was driven by a great passion and love for humidity but he also had a soul of steel and he was a radical revolutionary, and that didn t change after south africa was free from apartheid. if you looked at his policies, mandela in his speech today but also used it as a teachable moment. i want to play just a small clip from the president just to rem
it. the offers where you have to go to get this i.d. in 13 counties are only open one day a week. in nine counties, they re closed. they don t have one at all. so 35% of the voters don t know this law exists. if you live in the city, you may not have a driver s license. veterans may not have a driver s license. they re elderly. they may have disabilities. so if yo du do not have the pror i.d., you re going to be blocked from the polls. leila, i want to call your attention i should say call our viewers attention to the poll because i m sure you re familiar with the washington post poll that came out this week. when asked 74% think you should have to. 23% disagree. have you found public opinions hurting your efforts at all? not at all. when you inform people that the problem not i.d. but how restrictive it is and how hard
it is to get. for example. if you take texas, college i.d.s are not accepted. 85% of the colleges do not issue a photo i.d. with the proper expiration stamp they would accept. many find these are insurmountable hurdles they re not going to be able to overcome and that s wrong. that s the one day that we are all equals when we can have our equal say in the voting booth. leila mcdowell. thank you so much. appreciate your time. have a good weekend. thank you. that wraps up this weekend. thanks so much for watching. be sure to enjoy two hours with alex witt at noon today. straight ahead, uppers, get ready. smart political talk, up next with chris hayes. germ party! eww! now the colgate total mouth.
i m craig melvin. happening now, front-page politics and president obama back on the campaign trail. he used his saturday address to hammer home the need for jobs, specifically the need for quality teachers. if we want america to lead in the 21st century, nothing more important than giving everyone the best education possible, from the day they start preschool to the day they start their career. later today, the president will campaign in new hampshire, meanwhile, mitt romney started his own weekly podcast today. hello this is mitt romney. and this november, america will make a choice about the direction we want to go as a country. and nowhere is that choice clearer than on the issue of medicare. today, romney s running made, paul ryan, on the trail with his mother in florida, at a huge retirement community there, talking about medicare and other issues imported to seniors. joining me now forefront page politics, david mcnamara and joy ann reed. good saturday to both