off the bench after doing something justices rarely do on the the supreme court. they read the dissenting opinion. in this case it s about the civil rights action. a key provision of this critical legislation struck down just in the last half hour. i continue to be joined by mark mauriel. we were talking to chuck tord and he said the president is going to have to show some leadership on this. what do you want to hear from him? what do you want to see him do? the first thing we want is to see the president s continued commitment to protecting voters around the country, and i think his justice department has used this very section. but i think more than just hearing from the president, we are going to hear from people all over the country. let s not forget with all the voting suppression last year, there was record turnout. people stood in line seven or eight hours because people are
not going to be robbed of their right to vote. and mark mauriel and i, we re going to call an emergency summit within days to mobilize the national community. that president and congress needs to hear from us. we just announced yesterday the 50th anniversary march on washington. this march will now be with martin luther king s son around protecting voter rights. what they have just done is really revoked a lot of what dr. king s dream was all about. we build a monument to dr. king, and part of, at least half of what drrks king s dream was about was voter rights. it was 65. they just revoked that. we are not going to sit by and allow that to happen. you showed the ability in the past to mobilize people. i m thinking of something very different.
98% of the people who wanted background checks for guns and couldn t get it through congress, there seems to be a tremendous push, an agreement, but the general thought is it will get through the senate, not through the house. how do you make this successful, mark? there is no right more fundamental to americans than democracy. no more right more essential to this nation but the right to vote. here we have been on international efforts in iraq and afghanistan to secure a democracy, to create democratic systems, to do regime change. here we are looking at what is happening in syria. this is a chance for us to focus on right here in the united states of america. this issue is very large in the 21st century. that right to vote is so basic and fundamental.