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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20130625 14:22:00

Gloria and john who are here. gloria, what do you think millie the fallout from this major u.s. supreme court decision? i think that you can expect democrats to, of course, read the decision and then push for some kind of reauthorization, depending on what the court s opinion says. and i also think it s obvious that this becomes a political question again. because if you otherwise you re going to see things like voter i.d. laws and those kinds of things that we don t want passed. so i think this puts it right back in the political arena and it could in the south, for example, become a real issue in the midterm elections. and you will sigh now this political divide not only playing out in washington, but it s a very important point. for the most part, elections are up to a state. the constitution says the state runs its elections. these states are put early ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20130625 14:32:00

Released doves outside the hospital where mandela remains in critical condition. george zimmerman back in court for a second day as a judge s ruling previous 911 calls and more witness testimony expected today. zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder in the shooting of trayvon martin. edward snowden, the man who leaked details about u.s. surveillance programs is still nowhere to be found two days after he left hong kong. the united states believes he may be in hiding someone in the moscow airport. on monday, journalists spent most of the day trying to figure out if snowden boarded a plane from moscow to cuba. russia denies playing any role to snowden s movements. there s new controversy over the irs targeting tea party groups and other groups. we ve learned other political ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20130625 14:15:00

Sgif it to a foreign government or expose it to the media, if your bar is nobody would ever do that, i would say that s absurd. it s going to happen in a country with so many people with security clearances. i think he s embarrassing himself. he started with an interesting proposition. what is freedom and openness in the 21st century. now he s make a mockery of himself by traveling around to dictatorships and talking about not just what s happening to american but looking at the chinese government and how we attack their systems. phil mudd, thank you so much for being with us this morning. my pleasure. thank you. this is cnn breaking news. this just into us, the u.s. supreme court just handed down a ruling on voting rights. at issue, certain provisions from the landmark voting rights act of 1965. it s a complicated case and one of the most significant civil rights law necessary our country s history. jake tapper and jeff tubin are at the court. we ll get right to them when we h ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20130625 14:23:00

Federal guidance because of past discrimination. now the court is saying, the test you had in place is outdated. it goes back to 1965. so much has changed. other discrimination law ves changed. hopefully these states have made substantial progress. if you re going to do this, you have to rewrite the test, if you will. if you look at the politics of the moment, if you look at the states that are affected, most of them have republican governors. so this is a debate that s going to play out. and not only in voter i.d. law wes bub also in redistricting. we re going to see how states handle this in terms of how they draw their congressional districts. that could wind up in court. the bottom line is that these southern states, largely southern states that had these special requirements that the federal government imposed in 1965, a voting viets act, they are no longer going to have to deal with that, at least for the time being, unless congress staits takes special action. as i said, i d ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20130625 14:26:00

You re likely to see if they try to do this. carrie and leah are standing by, as well. carrie. hi, yeah. today s decision brings the voting rights act into the 21st century. the court is just saying, if you want to make distinctions between the states, they have to be based on can think current facts. not 40-year-old data. our government is under a time where we have a lot of financial stress. we are having the voting rights division looking through upwards of 20,000 different voting changes every year in states, including alaska. just because of some differences in the voter registration in the 1960s. if we want to continue this preclearance and using our time to look through voting changes before they happen, we should be doing that based on current problems and current election years, not what happened in 1964. leah. well, i do agree that by eliminating section four this really is striking at a ....

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