host: michael waldman, what do you make of that?tat was the that a lot of white men of the time at the beginning said. onlyriginal rule was the white men who own property could include slaves. only they could vote. country have moved past that. we passed five constitutional in the men's saying everybody has the right to vote. let me tell you a story about a particular person. it isn't that people are lazy or able to get a job. somebody was a witness in a case that we helped bring in texas. his name was sammy bates. she grew up in mississippi. she remembers county of the money for the poll tax for her mother. she is african-american. he moved to detroit and chicago and went to college. she worked for whole life. then she moved to texas and retired. she has no money. she hasn't ever thing right and she has been voting for decades. all of a sudden she did not have the kind of id she needed to be able to vote. in order to get that id she would have to find a way to get her birth certificate from mississippi. it would've cost at least $4

also michael waldman, president of the brennan center for justice will talk with us live about his newht to vote." be sure to watch c-span's washington journal beginning live at 7:00 eastern tomorrow morning. join the discussion. >> american history tv on c-span 3 features programs that tell the american story. some of the highlights for this weekend include saturday night at 8:00 eastern on lectures in history. cornell university professor maria garcia on the united states refugee policy since world war ii. who qualifies as a refugee? and how that's changed over the years. at 10:00, on real america, our final program in our three-part series on senator jay william fullbright's hearings, investigating the united states policies in vietnam. secretary of state dean rusk testifies on behalf of the johnson administration's actions in vietnam. his opening statement is followed by committee members' questions. sunday morning at 10:00 on road to the white house rewind, the 1960 west virginia democratic primary debate between senators john f. kennedy and massachusetts and hubert humphrey of mi

michael waldman will be with us to talk live about his new book "the fight to vote."tch c-span's washington journal beginning live at 7:00 eastern tomorrow morning. join the discussion. >>> american history tv on c shf span3 features programs that tell the american story. some of the highlights for this weekend include saturday night at 8:00 eastern on lectures in history. cornell university professor maria christina garcia on the united states refugee policy since world war ii. who qualifies as a refugee and how that has changed over the years. at 10:00 on reel america, our final program in our three-part series on senator j. william fullbright's hearings. secretary of state dean rusk testifies on behalf of the actions in vietnam. his opening statement is followed by questions. sunday morning at 10:00 on road to the white house rewind, the 1960 west virginia democratic primary debate between senators john f. kennedy of massachusetts and hubert humphrey of minnesota. this was only the second televised presidential primary debate in history. >> the next president must

on monday, michael waldman provides a history of voting rights in the united states and new york university'sschool of law where mr. waldman as president of the brennan center for justice. also, that evening politics and prose to her in washington dc-- watching dc. steve forms. mr. forbes will join us live sunday, april 3, to discuss his many books and take your questions on in-depth. >>> on wednesday, we are back in new york, the roosevelt house as patricia because the relationship between civil rights activists and cofounder of the national organization of women, polly murray, and first lady eleanor roosevelt. >>> on thursday, former bush justice department official john you will weigh in on the expansion of the federal government during the obama administration at a taping of our weekly author interview program, afterwards from our studio in washington dc. >>> live next sunday at 12:00 p.m. eastern, the new yorker's jane mayer will be our guest on in-depth to take your questions and talk about her book, which includes her most recent on the influence of big money in politics, dark money. >

university school of law and former director of speech writing for president bill clinton of, michael waldmanbarnicle and sam stein still with us as well. >> michael, always great to have you on. tell us why did you write this book now? why is it important right now for people to read this? >> well, this is an election where these issues of who can vote and how are at the front of a lot of people's minds. there are new voting laws in place in 16 states for the first time, the supreme court knocked down the heart of the voting rights act, you hear candidates like we just did talk being it. a lot of public concern not just about voting rights but about citizens u righted, the role of money. i wanted to know, among other things, why not. >> so why now? >> it turns out that this fight over who can vote, has been with us since the very beginning, it's been at the heart of politics and it's always been rowdy and partisan and intense from the time of the founding until now. so this is really another moment just like in the past where we're fighting over kind of who can have their voice heard and we