rights and that s not been senator sessions record on lgbt equality, on voting rights, on special education. people won t see him as that champion that they saw bobby kennedy and others and that was one of the reasons i decided to oppose him. we ve had people who have risen up from their roots, may come from a part of the country that was segregated, people like that, klan members, bobmembers. bobby byrd. have risen above the local thinking, parochial thinking. you don t think mr. sessions is capable of that? the deep south. he s not able to transcend that and become a true american lawkeeper? chris, i haven t seen the evidence. here s an example. just a couple years ago the supreme court struck down a big chunk of the voting rights act. i know. section 5. he said that was good news. and when we tried to put together efforts to fix the voting rights act, fix the problem that the court said was a problem, there s an easy fix. he s not been engaged in that. i m with him on the a
tucker: point of fact, you didn t help them navigate, you just printed it. here s what bothers me about your explanation. i m for openness and transparency. but by setting yourself up as a champion of press freedom, you re slightly disingenuous. i read this from buzzfeed, we firmly believe that for a number of issues including civil rights, lgbt equality, there are not two sides. it struck me as that s almost a theological statement, instead of journalism which is there s always another side. anyone who disagrees should be ignored. that is a statement of activism, isn t it? absolutely not, i doubt that fox news has a view that there are two sides on whether you should be racist or not. i think that is in some sense a lot of news organizations don t put out or make explicit rhat implicit point, that you
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the modern world, live the life the overwhelming majority of people according to all polling in the united states want lgbt equality, want something on climate change, want to increase the minimum wage. we will have a period of readjustment but it s going to be it s not surprising if states become more different one from another. at the same time there are things the federal government is obliged to do to protect civil rights and the environment. we won t hesitate to hold their feet to the fire if they deviate from that course. thanks for stopping by. still to come, a man hunt under way after a 3-year-old is shot while in the car with his grandmother. police say what may have set the killer off next.
states. well, this is an important one. and i think our nation, even though our founders were flawed, they had the wisdom to say equality should be the measuring stick for our country. i don t know there is another country out there that says there is one measuring stick and it is equality. lgbt equality, i urged the supreme court to recognize marriage equality, governor pence opposes it, says it will lead to societal collapse, wants to put justices on the supreme court that will with respect to women s rights, i think, you know, look everybody has the right to have their own moral opinion about issues with respect to reproduction and abortion, that s very fair. but i don t think government should be making women s health care decisions for them. women should be able to make that for themselves and so i support roe v. wade, allowing women to make these important decisions for themselves, governor pence wants to roll