the other top attorney is this man, ben ginsburg, who served as national counsel for the mitt romney campaign in 2012. so one chairman from the democratic side, one chairman from the republican side. now in setting the commission up this way and announcing it this way, the president is clearly trying to turn fixing our national problem with voting into a bipartisan effort. he is trying to proceed here as if a story like desilene victor's pulls on everybody's heartstrings equally, democrat and republican. but what happened to desilene victor when she tried to vote this year was not an accident, it was on purpose. it was policy. florida republicans took overt steps to make voting lines longer in florida and to make voting harder. to make registering to vote harder even. governor rick scott signed into law new requirements that made voter registration drives so legally perilous, that even the hearty league of women voters gave up trying. rick scott cut early voting in florida almost in half. and when it became clear that florida voters were facing eight-hour lines for early voting, gove

he hired ben ginsburg, a glorified election thief. >> ben ginsburg you're not going to get any progressthe issue. >> the other problem of course is that the real problem with voter suppression isn't in washington. it's not states. the only way to get around it is to get rid of the republican governors. the way it's gerrymandered it's going to be hard to do. hanging on by a thread in front of the supreme court in two weeks, for him to come up with nothing better than a bipartisan commission which will meet for self times and pros nothing that anybody has to pay attention to, i thought that was the most disappointing part of the speech for me. >> although i'm going to counter you and get bit there and say i totally agree with your complaints about it. the fact that it was talked about and the fact that these people, he was talking about it in front of the congress that is going to approve justices and circuit court judges, where these matters ultimately going to end up, i think there is some resonance to his point there. this is a state issue. if you hear the president talking about it, i

well and it's yeah but it's ben ginsburg a guy who's been fighting against voters a guy who worked with the swift boat veterans back in two thousand and four even while he was working with bush cheney is incredibly partisan i don't know what to expect out of this commission i don't expect much but i would be more worried about the supreme court coming up they're looking at the voting rights act in another week and this could really cut the knees out from voting rights across the entire country that's what we have to really keep our eyes on this year i'm afraid ok and we will do that will do that as well on your blog and brad blog dot com brad friedman thanks again for joining us thank you. coming out last week more than three thousand vacation goers were treated to the cruise from hell but i've heard of a cruise ship lost all power and quickly became a giant floating petri dish that lost all of mainstream media coverage of the cruise to nowhere is the story of colonel's employees who are living their own kind of nightmare every day tell you their story of the birth. you know sometimes y

ginsburg wrote. you might want to take rhode island avenue into town. you could take benning road to get past that >> >> the time is 6:12 and 35 degrees and coming up, brianne carter will wrap up the president's state of the union address. >> a bit of a royal boz overseas with reaction after shutterbug's catch prince william [ whirring ] [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophi and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, what's next? [ zapping ] [ clang ] ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the f sport. this is the pursuit of peection. >> well, back at 6:16. there is a lot of talk about what happened overnight and that is the state of the union address. >> president obama headed to north carolina this morning and will push with some of the proposals from the address. let's check in with brianne carter. >> many analysts this morning are saying the town is exactly what they expected to hear from president barack obama as he laid out what he would like to see as his priorities over the next four years inc