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Of us. and our side has to be up, not agonizing, but organizing to make sure that we battle on every single state and every single district to make sure that they cannot, in fact, implement a plan of voter suppression as hard as they try. >> all right. senator ed markey, thank you for making some time tonight. joining me now political reporter alex izenstat, co-wrote the scoop on -- and mariner perez. and alex, let me start with you, adelson has been the single biggest donor. whats the thinkin...

That is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so hes getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. >> alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. youve got the donor class and theyre writing the big checks and then the voter suppression fights. georgia right now, theres a lawsuit being filed about these 53,000 upheld registrations. whats going on in georgia right now? >> the...

Right. this is a drop in the bucket for sheldon adelson. he typically gives in election cycles around $100 million. what he gets in exchange for that is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so hes getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. >> alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. youve got the donor class and theyre writing the big checks and then the voter suppres...

Day. and thats why we have to be totally on alert this year because we have got victory right now that is right in front of us. and our side has to be up, not agonizing, but organizing to make sure that we battle on every single state and every single district to make sure that they cannot, in fact, implement a plan of voter suppression as hard as they try. >> all right. senator ed markey, thank you for making some time tonight. joining me now political reporter alex izenstat, co-wrote the sco...