and maricopa county, minorities are 40% of the vote.rly, there were very few polling places in predominately latino areas, for example, so this would have been blocked. if it had not been blocked, we would have known months in advance and voters can of adjusted. instead, it caught people by surprise. the worrisome thing is, if this happens on election day in 2016, people have no recourse that there is going to be not just one arizona potentially on election day, there could be multiple places with long lines, with new voting restrictions in effect. this is the consequence of having the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the voting rights act. amy: i was on the subway friday night in new york and there was a guy sitting next to me with a bernie button and i asked if he was voting in the primary. he said, yeah, i'm one of the lucky ones. i said, why lucky? he said because all of his friends want to be able to vote, although, he said they were for bernie sandersrs. i said, why can't they vote? he said,

maricopa county sheriff and trump supporter sheriff joe arpaio is with me now. welcome back. >> thanks. >> zuckerberg has been an advocate for immigration reform for years, he's talking about an h1-b visa which is a different applicant than what most people see along the border of u.s. and mexico. >> we still have the illegal immigration problem. don't forget we have a drug problem, all the drugs coming into our country. most of it comes from mexico. so that wall is not just to stop illegal immigration, it is to stop the drugs from coming into the country. i hope he agrees with that issue. deirdre: it's a theory from california and not necessarily where you are. >> i don't know what his theory is. this is an international-national problem, it affects california. you know he's a successful businessman. i would hope that the mexican government does not build that wall, maybe he can donate money to mexico to get it done or maybe we should take away the money from mexico. so he can be successful, he's a successful businessman. both of them are. donald trump and him.

remember those huge lines that happened in maricopa county, arizona, after arizona inexplicably cut the number of polling locations in that county by 70% so there were huge long terrible lines that got national press coverage in maricopa county? remember that from arizona? in the state of rhode island they have made a decision for this primary on tuesday that they too are going to cut the number of polling stations by 70%. having already seen how well a 70% cut worked in arizona, rhode island has decided to do it too. instead of their 400 plus polling places, they're only going to open up 144 of them on tuesday night. because yeah, might look like this is a hotly contested presidential race where more is riding on rhode island than any other time in recent memory in terms of presidential politics. yeah, there might have been record turnout at least on the republican side in state after state after state after state all over the country. but rhode island election officials are apparently banking on the idea that people in that state just don't care. they can't be bothered to be polled. j

laws in some cases it's literally closing down polling places like in maricopa county, arizona.e department of justice's letter to the county the doj mentions they heard of dispoe portionate waiting times to vote in some areas where substantial racial or language minority populations. what do you think could come out from a doj investigation into this matter, do you think? >> well, certainly one thing that we need is oversight -- you know, the department of justice can send monitors, they can track a situation but what arizona really speaks to is first of all, election officials not reading the situation properly. and then second of all, the protections that we lost when the supreme court gutted the voting rights act just a few years ago. previously, arizona would have had to have a change like this approved before it went into place. now, it happened, and we're dealing with the consequences. >> all right. tomas lopez we're going to have to leave it at that. >>> well the race pore the republican nomination is about to head west but donald trump may not be welcomed in one califor

some waited five hours to cast their votes in maricopa county on march 22nd. the county officials admit that they did miscalculate how many polling places would be needed. >>> today, voters in a town in colorado have decided they will lift the ban on marijuana shops. they had said no to marijuana but supporters said that lag the sale of marijuana will bring much-needed jobs to the coal town. it's a beautiful town. >> it's a beautiful shot and a beautiful day here, richelle. but when marijuana was legalized in colorado, just a little more than a couple of years ago, every town in the state, all of towns were given the option of opting out of the new law, meaning that they didn't have to allow pot shops to open up in their towns if they didn't want to, and that has been the case here in hoss kiss. but the economy has started to fall apart and a lot of the jobs have been lost. and some of the people here are hoping that legal weed may hold at least one of the keys to the town owes recovery. hosskiss sits in the shadow of some of the country's most spectacular sno

>> it wasn't until trump came in to raise the ire of the right wing and maricopa county that these billsan to get some traction again. amy: i want to thank you both for being with us. it is certainly a discussion we will continue to have in this presidential election year with republican front runner donald trump. isabel garcia, cochair of the coalition for human rights, and lena rothman, arrested at a trump rally in tucson after she went to police to complain about being assaulted by a trump supporter. that does it for the show. we are on a 100 city tour marking democracy now!'s 20 then anniversary. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. you can check our website at democracynow.org to follow the tour to find out if we're coming to a city near you. we have job openings hiring for our video news production fellowship and our internship program. more information at democracy now.org. [captioning made possible by democracy

maricopa county, arizona, they had these huge long lines after they closed 70% of their polling places. the state of rhode island decided to do that tonight. they closed 70% of their polling places for this race tonight. we have no idea what kind of effect that is going to have. one showed clinton up, one showed sanders up. no polling in delaware, but delaware, rhode island, pennsylvania and connecticut all too early to call on the democratic side and that's just going to be, there's a lot of suspense. that is going to be an spresing night to see how this works out. >> robert costa, who covers politics for the "washington post" and joins us at moments like this. robert, we can call this already early in the evening, a significant night for donald trump. >> these are sweeping victories for the trump campaign. going across the northeast. the corridor as many insiders are calling it and this really underscores trump's strength as he moves towards the convention. he's winning over suburban voters who have long been skeptical of trump as well as the rural voters in the center of this state

you had a shrinkage of the number of precincts that were available by 70% and in maricopa county, you had 1 precinct open for every 21,000 voters and they stood in line for five and six hours. by design, that was intended to stop minority voters and poor voters from being able to cast ballots. that's unacceptable and we're filing suit because the federal government should intervene. >> debbie wassermann of the dnc and a congresswoman from florida. thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure, wolf. thanks so much. >>> a strong message sent to russia deploying the military's most secretive aircraft. details next. neighbor boy. (neighbor) yeah, so we're just bringing your son home. he really loves our wireless directv receiver. (dad) he should know better. we're settlers. we settle for cable. but let us repay you for your troubles. fresh milk for the journey home? (neighbor) we live right there. (dad) salted meats? (neighbor) no thank you. (dad) hats then! (vo) don't be a settler, get a $100 reward card when you switch to directv. parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? yo

even in maricopa county were some voters had to endure wait times of up to five hours, you saw voterurnout rate of about 50%. new york is always at the bottom of the list when it comes to turn out. it is time for real reform. juan: when you talk about real reform, i remember just a few years ago after particularly contentious congressional race, a challenge of charles ringel in harlem, new york city council hearings, promises of reform of the board of elections. what do you think needs to happen to be able to finally fix new york's broken election system? >> we need all of these folks who are expressing angst today. the mayor, the comptroller to direct that energy toward albany. we need lawmakers in albany to finally, finally follow through on the need for an election overhaul in new york. we need same-day registration. we need automatic voter registration so that people can be added to the rolls and their information can be easily updated. we need preregistration opportunities for 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds. we need real and present early voting opportunities. it is simply shamef

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. >> thousands of people in maricopa county, the largest county in the state, waited up to five hours in line to cast a ballot. >> some people didn't get their ballots in until about midnight. >> some voters passed the time in line by ordering a pizza. >> you've been here almost three hours? >> yes. >> are you frustrated at all with that wait? >> yes. >> if you've been in line so long, the pizza place is willing to deliver to you, you're going to be frustrated. "is that a house or an apartment?" it's a line, i live in a line. [ laughter ] the long lines happened after the election official in charge of election procedure, decided to cut the number of polling places by 70%. when that official was asked who's fault the fiasco was, she at first offered this infuriating response. >> who's to blame for these long lines. >> well, the voters for getting in line. >> seth: before they showed up it was a perfectly nice sidewalk! [ laughter ] take full responsibility for the screw up. but what we've seen in wisconsin, arizona and north carolina over the past few year weeks is that the voting pro

investigation into arizona's primary last month where people waited for five hours to cast their votes after maricopay officials drastically reduced the number of polling places. joining me now is nina perez from the bread and center voting rights election process and scott ross. thank you for being here. i'm going to start with you just to give us what does that mean that the justice department is investigating arizona without the voting rights act protections? what could they theoretically do? >> right now, the way to think about this is that the voting rights act prevents two kinds of problems. one, people discriminating against folks on purpose. there's been allegations that particular communities were deprived of an appropriate amount of polling locations. the other thing it does is make sure it doesn't happen on accident. someone is just not planning well, because in order to get a change in the election system, you have to make the case, and be able to demonstrate this is not going to make minority voters worse off. someone was doing something they shouldn't have done on purpose or someone did

i got to continue the serve the people of maricopa county. it would be tough if he makes that call.l: i suspect he might, right? >> i don't know. i see him -- he is a great guy. he will win, i tell you. he is only one will beat hillary, i guarranty you on that. neil: frustration with republicans fearing that he will lead them to a huge loss, democrats will take over the senate, you don't buy any of that? >> no. a lot of hype out there. they're all going after donald. must be afraid of him. neil: all right. always speaking your mind, sheriff. we always appreciate that. thank you very much. good seeing you again. >> thank you. thank you. neil: ual is suddenly in a world of hurt here because revenue could weaken a little bit. when you hear that, major airline talking about revenue weakening, you have to wonder, is it weakening because people aren't really into flying? they're scared of flying. or just cutting back period because they're scared that something bad will happen with the economy, like turn south fast? we're all over it after this. so what else is new? how's your mother? umm

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