walter tucker iii empowered me as a 21-year-old to run his campaign for congress, and just a few months after he empowered me, we won that campaign for congress, so i have been in politics for about oh, lord, i don't want to say it. i have been in politics half my life. i started off running congressional campaigns, and i have never lost a campaign that i have actually managed, but interestingly enough at 21 a black minister empowered me and the black church was key to that election victory. it was critical to that election victory. when that african-american minister empowered me, i went to the ministers and the congressional district and asked them to empower one young person in the church that could be a liaison that i could use to help organize and turn out a number of key votes, but i want to get back to the question, what message is being sent? what message is being sent to our young people by the new voter i.d. laws because it wasn't something i had to deal with during that election. i have a 19-year-old daughter who is a rising junior at howard university, and as fathers of daug

walter tucker iii empowered me as a 21-year-old to run his campaign for congress, and just

walter tucker iii empowered me through his campaign for congress. just a few months after he empowered me, he won that campaign for congress. i have been in politics for -- i do not want to say it. i have been in politics for half my life. i started out running congressional campaigns, and i have never lost a campaign that i have managed. but interestingly enough, at 21, a black minister and our me, and that was key to that election victory. and when an african-american minister and howard me, i went to the ministers in the congressional district and -- empowered me, i went to the ministers in the congressional district and ask them to empower one young man that i could use to help turn out in number of key votes. i want to address the message being sent by these new voter i.d. laws. i have a 19 year-old daughter who is a rising junior at howard university. and as fathers and daughters know, sometimes they will come to you and say very prophetic things. after watching the news coverage of the assault on women's rights and female reproductive rights