msnbc.com zach roth is live in ferguson and joins me by phone. zach, let's go back to what happened with that state senator who was attempting to deliver a petition while trying to get bob mcculloch and a group of black leaders had a petition that 70,000 signatures calling on mcculloch to step aside. they really want the federal government to take over. that's who they place their trust if. the senator walked over to a police tape that has been set up and a line of police and tried to go under the tape to get access to deliver the buildings and she would stop there by police. the prosecutor, a spokesman was there, too. they were all kind of blocking their way. get your hands off me at one point. somebody toucheder h her, i gue. they insisted she cannot come in the building. she and other protesters eventually she kind of turned around and was walking off and still very angry. other protesters remained and talked to the police calmly and eventually got a response. they yelled at her to turn around and came back and at this time they let one other p

joining me is zach roth who covers voting rights. details of this new report because it's not good news. >> no, it's not good news. you've covered it. there's ongoing discrimination in voting. there are certain states, mainly the southern states that were previously covered under the voting rights act where the problem is worse than in other states. the report did a great job of highlighting, as a result of shelby, and this hasn't gotten much attention, federal election monitors will no longer be placed to observe elections as they've been doing since the voting rights act was passed in the '60s. they were there to stop intimidation at polls and the justice department has concluded they no longer have the authority to do that. that won't happen anymore. that's a big loss. >> barbara, you have justice roberts saying, our country has changed. you look at the states in terms of worse of voting skram nation, louisiana, mississippi, south carolina, georgia, the same states that used to be covered by pre-clarence. >> yes. in fact, what our

zach roth in ferguson. appreciate it. that wraps things up for today. thank you all for joining me. now it's time for the reed report with joy reed. >> a little political in-fighting there. very interesting. coming up next, president obama just slamming isis for the killing of american journalist james foley. we'll bring you all the breaking details. and then i'll have the latest on the michael brown shooting investigation, eric holder's heating with local letters. and i'll speak with the father of an unarmed ohio man killed by police as he shopped this walmart carrying a toy gun. peoi go to angie's listt for all kinds of reasons. to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. find out why more than two million members count on ang

. >> zach roth, thank you for that. that's the question around the country. stop the militarization is a call we have heard on the ground and from the hill. there's some legislators trying to introduce legislation to fix this problem. one of those proposals comes from the next guest, that is -- excuse me -- thank you. prompter took a second there. bobby scott, representative who is introduced a proposal on the hill to discuss this more seriously. of course, representative from virginia. thank you so much, sir, for joining us and the subcommittee on crime, terrorism, homeland security and investigations. so we talked about this first step of congress meeting, but if you're able to get action out of the meeting, what legislation specifically do you want to see? >> what we are trying to do is see what patterns there are in the police when people died in the custody of police. i introduced legislation to in effect for several years and expired. deaths in custody. where all deaths in the process of arrest or in prisons will be reported to the attorney general so t