jqamel bryant comes after hillary shelton and then kevin levine. we will start with margaret wong and then we will proceed. i will distribute this list and i thank you all very much. [applause] >> good morning everyone and welcome. my name is margaret wong, the executive director of the rice kin group, working with groups across the country to end civil liberties violations for everyone in the united states regardless of race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration, or citizenship status. it is a pleasure to be here today and to have joined all of you for this momentous hearing. want to start by acknowledging center cardin's leadership as the sponsor of the act. he has been a true champion and has taken this bill and move it forward in the last year and we're grateful to him for his leadership. we also want to thank senator durbin for hosting the hearing today. this is the first and more than a decade to look at this important issue and we appreciate his ongoing efforts to protect human rights and equal justice for everyone in the united

hillary shelton with the naacp, and gregory woodson, thank you both for coming in.scussion. >> all right. >>> gas prices in maryland could hit $4 a gallon any day now. how's that for a right turn, right? no one can seem to agree on a reason for the spike in prices. the theory that is popular among truck drivers coming up. >>> plus, the nats and caps both on the road and both coming up with wins and lindsay murphy has the exciting details coming up next in sports.  . >>> murph's on deck. after three years,ky call you that now, right? >> you used to call me lindsay. >> i know. >> i like murph. >> murph it is. >> i have a lot of friends named lindsay. >> it's good to be here. been awhile. >> good to see you, buddy. you miss sports? >> we talk sports all of the time. >> okay. >> dave ross comes on in the morning and talks sports. >> yeah. >> and there is something to get excited about. >> and this team is good and the fact this town is rallying around them is great. the national his a great start to the season, opened on thursday to the cubs and had a day off yest

hillary shelton, senior vice president of advocacy for the naacp say supporters of voter i.d.ne goal in line. >> if only they suppress those altogether. that's un-american. that is undemocrattic. >> color of change, group founded by former white house aid van jones is challenging voter i.d. laws going after the american legislative exchange council. a group the backed i.d. laws in the past. they accuse alec of trying to stop black people from voting and urged the 85,000 members to exert pressure on a number of corporations including coca-cola who donated to alec in the past. it worked. coca-cola was one of several entities that promised to stop future giving. alec since announced it's disbanding the election task force. the national center for public policy research announced today it will assume that work. brand new fox news poll shows 2 to 1 margin americans do not believe those who support voter i.d. laws are trying to block legal votes by minorities. 70% reported they believe the laws are necessary to stop illegal voting. >> minority female governor of the state of south c

hillary shelton the naacp says holder is right. >> jim crow is dead and buried. james b.ell more insidious and trickyer than ever before. >> jim crow was the area of institutionalized segregation from reconstruction to the mid 1960s in which many southern states prevented black from voting using poll taxes to even murders and lynchings. >> more than 50 years later america now has a black president. shelton charges supporters of voter id laws want to turn back the clock. >> suppress votes all together. that is unamerican. that is undemocratic. >> voter id laws are not the only tactic he points to. take the 2010 maryland governor's race in which gop governor early faced off against martino maley. republicans sent out this robo call to more than 100,000 voters predominantly african americans. >> i am calling to let everyone know that governor o'malley and president obama have been successful. our goals have been met. >> prosecutors say the goal was to convince any one who answered there was no need to go to the polls which were still open. >> we are okay. everything is fine.

death of an african-american senior citizen is this about race excessive police force or both hillary shot shelton joins me now he's the washington bureau director and senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the end of. hillary welcome back thomas wait to be with mr shelton police illustrated. first of all trayvon martin just the i'm sorry. and just you know wrapping that up if we could what's what's the latest with that story as things are now our hope is that charges are being prepared and i guess mr zimmerman very clearly i think it's both of us is listen to the evidence made available is as as is on thought it there is no reason that formal charges for murder have not been brought against mr zimmerman under the circumstances that we have again it is a seventeen year old youth that was walking back from a seven eleven picking up a bag of skittles and a can of arizona iced tea talking to his girlfriend on the phone with zimmerman season upon the same racial profiling strategies that we've heard so often the time to be because he's a young african-american man he's wearing a hoodie and p

hillary clinton on the ballot there in 2008. the longtime chairman butch morgan accused of being the mastermind behind the forgery scheme. pam burnett, and democratic board worker beverly sheltoncharged. as was democratic volunteer and former board worker dustin blythe. he allegedly forged signatures on president obama's petitions. when we caught him with him last november he refused to comment about it. >> reporter: will you talk to us about the petitions? >> i'm sorry i don't have anything to say. >> reporter: did you forge any signatures? >> i don't have anything to say. >> reporter: did you fake any petitions at all? >> i don't have anything to say. >> reporter: investigators say they did find forgeries on 22 obama and clinton petitions, those sheets list ten names each. voters told us they never signed. >> i did not sign for barack obama. >> reporter: so someone forged this? >> that is not my signature. i did not sign for barack obama. >> reporter: prosecutors say the forgery assignments are actually split, one person handling mrs. clinton another then senator obama and blythe allegedly handling john edwards. when lucas burkitt quit blythe was assigned the candidate who e