"the wall street journal" reporting president obama's former white house counsel, bob bauer, is heading up efforts to battle back the republicans on this with a multi-pronged effort that includes stopping laws when they can be stopped and helping voters targeted by these laws figure out how to vote anyway though it has been made so much harder for them. that the white house picked a lawyer like bob bauer shows this will drive -- that this drive to protect voting will not just be a matter of educating people about what i.d. they need and how to get it. the white house picking its own chief lawyer shows it is ready to bring serious legal muscle to this. it's also about suing and blocking these laws in the courts when they can. lots of times covering the news on politics means winging about d.c. i'll admit it. days like this, yates shmates. it seems like there's passionate intensity to go around in washington. even good strategy on the democratic side. there are signs of life in washington, d.c. i'm telling you. [ female announcer ] we are taking new ultra downy with silktouch to the stree