we are much better nation than the behavior that we're exhibiting. >> martin luther king iii, thank yout weekend. >> all right. rev, thank you. >> now let me bring in dana milbank and angelo wright. thank you both for being here. dana, has voter suppression now become part of the gop election strategy? >> well, it certainly is in the short term here and i think what you see going on, reverend, is they see what is basically a demographic tsunami coming their way and the country is becoming less and less white and that is if the republicans stay on the course they're on will wipe out the republican party so what they're trying to do is basically build some sand castles on the beach to hold off that tsunami and try to knock a few more voters off the roll. that may help them here and there in a very close election in the current cycle, the next cycle. in the long run, though, this is just a fool's ererrand than all that is electing white republicans. >> georgia, we've been talking about voting in georgia. here's why registering voters there is such a big deal. in 2008 president obama lost g

joining me now is martin luther king iii, and congressman emanuel cleaver.ing here. >> good to be here. >> thank you, reverend. >> attorney general eric holder's resignation comes at a key time for voting rights. >> absolutely. perhaps we would have been further behind had he not been doing what he could do, raising the issue, doing all he can do to ensure that everybody has the right to vote in this uncoming election. >> congressman, again of us said immediately and reached out from advocacy groups that we're more concerned that the work continue and none of us really trying to advocate on behalf of a particular candidate. and i think that a lot of people are very concerned that some of the things that the attorney general was working on is now jeopardized unless there's a real commitment around certain things like voting rights. >> yes. the department of justice, prior to eric holder's watch, had a civil rights division that had become a civil wrongs division. and he came in and he's turned all of that around. in fact, i'd like to say, and i agree with mar