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joining me now, the nation's ari berman, who attended this saturday's march.mondays merged into this giant event on saturday. >> yeah. so for the last eight years they've been holding this annual rally called the hk on j rally but this was the first time they did it with the moral monday coalition present. so you had all this energy in 2013, all these protests done at the state legislature. they traveled all around the state opposing the legislature's policies. and now 2014's the kickoff for a new year of moral monday. and this was the first real event. and they encouraged people to come not only just to north carolina but really all around the country to make a statement of how big this movement really is now. >> i want to look at the poll down there indicating that the republicans in north carolina should be worried about their political future. the governor, pat mccrory's approval rating, 37%. approval rating. this guy's got to run for re-election. he's got a 40% disapproval. the republican -- the state legislature there, a 32% approval rating in that state

ari berman on the phone from raleigh, north carolina.g those images of the rally. those are your pictures. ist made tv very pretty today. >> thank you. miss you guys. >> come on back any time. >>> up next, the newest battleground in the fight over voter i.d. laws, another installment of "this week in voter suppression!" he's got to power through it. ♪ vicks dayquil. powerful non-drowsy 6 symptom cold and flu relief. winter olympian ted ligety can't take a sick day tomorrow. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] so he can't let a cold keep him up tonight. vicks nyquil. powerful nighttime 6 symptom cold and flu relief. ♪ i asked my husband to pay our bill, and he forgot. you have the it card and it's your first time missing a payment, so there's no late fee. really? yep! so is your husband off the hook? no. he went out for milk last week and came back with a puppy. hold it. hold it. hold it. at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card with late payment forgiveness. ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's

. >> ari berman, glad you were there and very thankful you could come here and tell us about it. >> thanks for having me, lawrence. >> chris hayes is up next. >>> bridget kelly threatened with contempt. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. this weekend i came across a scene of outright chris christie bullying. his victim? 2012 presidential candidate mitt romney. we catch the new jersey governor threatening romney that if he tried raising campaign cash in jersey, he could kiss his, chris christie's support goodbye. he was not to collect a nick federal the garden state fat cats until christie himself gave the okay. well, the moment that warning was issued in the back room of the new jersey governor's mansion, it seared itself into mitt romney's head. it struck him, according to mark halperin and john heilemann as an outrageous strong arm move, like, quote, something out of "the sopranos." today the current presidential wanna-be is hitting christie with the same charge, of being a bull hi. quote, it's important that people t