demonstrates look, it didn t matter how we got here, we are here. i would say, i don t think anybody that s watched president obama for quite honestly the last, you know, five years going back to running for president has thought that we should not go about getting our fiscal house in order through a series of things that include less spending and more revenue. they balanced the approach. if you were to do a word count in the white house, you break the google. break the google. thank you very much. robert gibbs. thank you. nbc and msnbc analyst and former white house press secretary. now, up next, a tough go today for the voting rights act. we ll have more on that from the head of the naacp legal defense. today s supreme court arguments, revisiting the civil rights era. still ahead, farewell pope
naacp legal defense and education fund. he represents parties involved in next wednesday s supreme court hearing. and julie fernandez is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the department of justice s civil rights division. she s now a senior policy analyst at the hope and society foundation. let me start with ryan, mr. haygood, on this thing, put it together. to put it together, what we ve talked a lot about on this show, which i ve talked a lot about in the last year, is what i didn t like being done in my home state of pennsylvania where i came from and other states like florida where coy see what looked like clearly discriminatory efforts where you had the head of the pennsylvania legislature, the republican guy, coming out and basically saying if we get this voter photo i.d. law we re going to win this state. in other words, it s going to discriminate against at least superficially just democrats but we all know i think he meant urban minorities. number two you see the s
that preclearance process would go away, and, you know, there s some parts of the country where, obviously, folks have been trying to make it harder for people to vote. well, there are nine states covered by section five of the voting rights act. there they are. mostly southern which the president talking about. the states in yellow. it s also affected some counties in these additional states in green. you can see that for a total of 16 states. in the 2012 election, section five protections played a crucial role in preventing minority voters from being disenfranchised in texas and in florida. ryan haygood is director of the naacp legal defense and education fund. he represents parties involved in next wednesday s supreme court hearing. and julie fernandez is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the department of
the washington times reports the director of the legal defense fun s political participation arm met with the justice department lawyers to discuss the case. the director is clark, now denies any meeting took place. the legal defense fund is splitting hairs as it tries to distance itself from the allegations in a letter to the washington times it wrote: the article attempts to link the naacp to the justice department s handling of the new black panther party matter. the naacp legal defense and educating fund are entirely separate organizations and have been so since 1957. clearly, they are not denying a meeting took place. joining me with reaction, nationally syndicated radio talk show host the one and only stephen a. smith and niger innis is back with us. you bring trouble that s
the washington times reports the director of the legal defense fun s political participation arm met with the justice department lawyers to discuss the case. the director is clark, now denies any meeting took place. the legal defense fund is splitting hairs as it tries to distance itself from the allegations in a letter to the washington times it wrote: the article attempts to link the naacp to the justice department s handling of the new black panther party matter. the naacp legal defense and educating fund are entirely separate organizations and have been so since 1957. clearly, they are not denying a meeting took place. joining me with reaction, nationally syndicated radio talk show host the one and only stephen a. smith and niger innis is back with us.