. >> i'm antonio mora, thanks for joining us. ray suarez is next. have a good night, despite the bugs. [ ♪ music ] >>> the voting rights act was meant to push back on decades of systematic voter exclusion in big chunks of the country, it meant that the justice department would look over many state shoulders when they made laws. now the acts supporters worry that it's weakened or in retreat as america marked the 50th vote. it's "inside story". >>> welcome to "inside story". i'm ray suarez. 95 years ago today, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution. clearing the way for women to vote. it would be half a century before a similar guarantee was given to african-americans. for decades, some states barred entry to the ballot box. intimidation, threats, burdens, poll taxes, tricky application procedures were on the benign end. the threat of sudden violence, murder was at the other end of the scale. now, 50 years later, plenty of americans are prepared to let the guarantees of the voting right acts from the one it was in 1995. randa

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target. >> mark calabria, and alexis gold teen and mark are with me. and mark, why do they give lots of money to politicians? that's the core thing, right? why. >> that's a very good question, and i don't think that it's the obvious answer. obviously, favors, and surprisingly to me, we have a number of candidates, a number of interest groups got nothing. and it's across the table. it's much more complicated this year, and i don't think that it's what you necessarily do get. but you get access. and certainly my experience on the hill is far more than anybody else, what the constituents get. what they want. so my position is that the congressmen and senators are going to dominate who they represent. and they put their state a

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. activists from both national political parties worked to elect the next president with a wish list in their heads and you can be very sure many are clear on the role the next president can play on shaping the new supreme court. look at hobby lobby, bush v gore, if you don't think it matters who's on the supreme court you aren't paying attention. joe patrice, deeply immersed in all things supreme court, welcome to the program about. >> thanks for having me. >> well there have been 5-4 major decisions, everyone is watching anthony kennedy yet again. is this a pretty balanced court that we have now? >> not to undermine how many 9-0 decisions there have been, there are a lot of supreme court cases that are not moving the needle politically. but on things that really matter to people politically, we have four conservatives, four liberals, and justice kennedy is chair of the party that is conservative on everything but gay marriage. >> is there a chan

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. >> the only live national news show at 11:00 eastern. >> we start with breaking news. >> let's take a closer look. ♪ >>> you are watching "inside story," i'm ray suarez. earlier today, a group holding a federal building in oregon told reporters the group's name, citizens for constitutional freedom. that name is much like that of hundreds of political groups around the country, including many with similar aims, make the federal government smaller, less intrusive, less powerful. but when this as yet undetermined number of men and women take land that is part of a national wildlife refuge, announce their demands, what changes once they make it very clear they are armed and say they are willing to fight? back with me now spencer sunshine, also joining me john locke, president of the crime prevention research center, and josh horwitz, executive director of the coalition to stop gun violence. john locke, let me start with you, in a week where the pr

i'm antonio mora. thank you for joining us for the latest news. you can go any time to al jazeera.com. ray suarez is up next. have a great night. >>> a group of armed opinion has taken ore a federal building at a wildlife refuge in eastern oregon. they say they are prepared to hold the facility for years. the men are armed. some have told reporters they are prepared to kill and die for their cause. federal officers haven't simply run them off of the property. have the militia men proved when you have got a cause, being armed matters. armed politics. it's the inside story. ♪ >>> welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. the last couple of years has highlighted people power around the world, marching, chanting, bringing their demands to the power 68. in hong kong, mexico, france, spain. in the united states, the country's at tension was commanded by hundreds of thousz who took to the streets of new york, washington, d.c., st. louis, chicago to shout their anger at the way american society devalued the lives of black citizens. in the state of oreg

i'm antonio mora. thanks for joining us. for latest news, head over to al aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story." have a good weekend. >> ♪ ♪ >> it's one of the small details of life. something you do without a second thought. in communities around the country. head to the sink, pour yourself a glass of water. no hesitation. no worry about whether that glass is going to cause brain damage or poison you. the puzzling water crisis in flint needs a second and third look: how did it happen. are there other cities just waiting to become the next flint, poor people's water. it's the "inside story". welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. flint was already a symbol of america's troubled industrial cities, long before it made the news in recent weeks. general motors and other employers left and took thousands of jobs with them. population dlaind. eclined. home values declined. incomes declined. in recent years there's been some good news, some redevelopment. while city governments wrestled with financial crises, aging infrastructure, things got worse when

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. ♪ >>> you are watching "inside story." i'm ray suarez. the g.o.p. and poverty tonight on the program. we are looking at the kemp forum which brought together many of the presidential candidates to talk about poverty in america. several of the candidates were critical of the structure of various kinds of means tested aid programs which use income thresholds as a trigger for cutting benefits. thus, they said, creating a strong disincentive to earn more money. here is chris christie. >> if you give people this choice of can i make more by sitting at home on the couch than i can going to work, that's what people are facing right now. i have had individuals say to me, it doesn't make any sense for me and my family. i if took a job i would make less than i am right now, when you put all of the programs receiving. >> robert and melissa are still with me. and melissa, when we look at programs and the way they are structured, are there a lot of sort of

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. >> the only live national news show at 11:00 eastern. >> we start with breaking news. >> let's take a closer look. >> you're watching "inside story," and i'm ray suarez. one of the key points in the president's executive action on guns dealt with mental health and ownership. it may sound like nothing but common sense to want to keep potentially deadly weapons out of the hands of mentally ill people. and it's less clear how you make it work. my guests are still with me, and do we have a problem with this, when you're adjudicated in the way that you described earlier, does your name stay on that list, or the registry, forever? >> it's generally difficult for anyone to regain or restore theirer firearms rights. but it's discouraging. many clients from our law firm have possibly been voluntarily committed. but they're unlikely to it discuss those issues because of the stigma, and therefore, they don't seek medical treatment frustrated. >> because th

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. >>> you're watching inside story. the president and the people and guns this time on the program. last night the president explained his executive actions regarding brown checks and other gun-related policies to a sometimes skeptical audience. he deplored the gun law. he said for gun owners and gun buyers little will change. he said the polarisation over the issues and what he called the conspiracy theories that portray every measure he has taken as the first step in a larger secret plan to seize privately held guns. take a listen >> i'm only going to be here for another year. i don't know - when would i have started on this enterprise? right? >>> we're talking to the president of the national urban league and the american constitution society and arsenal attorneys. father michael flager suggested titles for guns, like other items that we transfer, cars. that could lead to a gun registry which would mean the government would know where every gun

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. ♪ ♪ >> you're watching "inside story." i'm ray suarez. poor people's water this time on the program. we're trying to get a handled on the long unfolding civic disaster in flint michigan. joining me is trachelle le young peter glick and angela pochasky. trachel, if you sue, who do you sue? do you have to figure out who is responsible for what happened in flint? >> thrashing, we believe we know -- that's correct, we believe we know who is responsible for the water in flifnt. flijtd. flint. it was governor snyder. >> take us back, who was behind it? >> the city of flint was in the control of an emergency manager, in april of 2013 they decided that the city would join a new organization to get its water. the city of detroit issued a notice of termination to the city of flirn flint for their wr usage. we were going to continue to receive water from flint but to save money, the emergency manager decided we would get our water from the flint river,

. >> i'm antonio mora, for news head over to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story". have a great night. presidential candidate ted cruz was born in canada and the only surprise about it becoming an issue in the campaign is that it took this long. the country has never had a president born in a foreign country and like so much in this unusual campaign season, it has been made an issue by donald trump. the constitution is clear, sort of, on who can be president. why was that qualification in there in the first place? has our interpretation changed over time, who's natural born? it's the "inside story". ." welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. you heard it from republicans during the rise of arnold, when the governor of michigan. too bad they can't run for president. the constitution bars the foreign born from taking office. doesn't it? the speculation about the meaning of article 2 comes from how plain and opaque it is at the same time. no person except a thats-born citizen, or a citizen at the u.s. at the time of the ado

. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. >> you're watching "inside story," i'm ray suarez. as the president unveiled a new set of gun measures under his executive authority, we're working on today's program. elliot feinman, ceo of gun action, caroline frederickson, and lea barrett, executive director of new yorkers against gun violence. elliot feinman, you sounded sceptical. and let's look at the proposals apart from the background checks. the president is looking at smart gun technology, and working with the private sector to build safer guns, and providing more enforcement personnel -- currently given a low priority by the justice department. are these things that you suggest merely symbolic or could they have a very real effect? >> well, they're important things, and on the smart gun issue, the real effect would be if the president required that the government purchases of firearms, only those with the mark on technology as part of them. in other words, that would force the manufac

meeting for 4 o'clock wednesday afternoon >>> i'm antonio mora, thank you for joining us, for the latest news any time head to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story". have a great night. finish >> the president says he wasn't getting any help from congress in reducing gun death, so so he moved ahead on his own, tearing up when he thought about the sandy hook victims. using measures that he says will make guns hard tore get for the wrong people and just as easy to get for the right ones. did he go too far? did he go far enough? are the new rules as he laid them out tonight at the white house make guns safer? the rights and the wrongs, it's the "inside story". welcome to "inside story". i'm ray suarez. the argument the president made from the white house today was framed with policy, as he wrapped up his presentation, he reminded his audience about how good politics works too. >> we need the wide majority of responsible gun owners who grieve with us every time this happens, and feel like your views are not properly being represented, to join with us to demand something be

i'm antonio mora, thank you for joining us. luis suarez is up next with "inside story". have a great night. >> they are highly prized. expensively courted voters. millennials will be the largest single group of eligible voters, 83 million strong. but these americans have underperformed even the long-term under performance of voters. and what's going to pull them off the sidelines? late to the party? it's the "inside story". welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. national elections in which no be presidential income bat is on the ballot are often high interest, high spending, high turnout affairs, widely called millennials, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century, and hitting milestones in the shadow of 9/11 and iraq. in the book, the history of america's future, credited with naming the millennials, authors william strauss and neil howell predicted that the boomers would be a particular generation. kicking off a primary season beckoning all americans to the polls, will the youngest voters show up? in the 2012 election, with just 38p. of the eligible 1