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More quickly all the time. but even republicans who arent willing to explicitly espouse those crazy trump election fantasies, theyre all going after voting and election administration hammer and tongs regardless. and democrats plans to try to stop it frankly arent coming together. at least theyre not coming together at the national level. that same day last week, when the civil rights leaders and voting rights advocates went to the white house to meet with president biden and vice president harr...

Front of peoples agenda. >> a summer of direct action. he was speaking one week ago today here on this show, talking about a summer of direct action led by, he said last week, next week, a group of african-american women leading a week of action in d.c. the courts are increasingly closed to the american public on this issue. republicans are ramming through restrictions in the states. democrats cant get it together because of people like democratic senator joe manchin. they cant get it together t...

Our state. the representative is the longest serving african-american woman in the history of the texas legislature. shes the longest serving woman of any race to ever serve in that body. but this week, she has left texas. she is a texas institution who has left texas along with her colleagues to slow down republican efforts to restrict voting rights back home by denying them a quorum, and to push in washington for federal help for new federal protections that would stop republicans from what th...

And believe that at the end of the day we will win, will we win tomorrow? i am sure not, but we will continue to fight until we win. >> melanie campbell is the convene of the black women roundtable, president and ceo of the national coalition on black civic participation, and was arrested today along with joyce beatty. miss campbell, thank you for your time tonight, i hope you get a good night sleep after i know has been a stressful intense day, thank you. >> thank, you rachel. >> all right, com...

Ideal place to insure that all americans participate and have a voice in their democratic process by voting. >> texas state representative thompson, an institution in the texas legislature and an unparalleled way. dean of the texas house of representatives and the democrats, representative thompson, its an honor to have you here. i know you and your colleagues have really put yourself out at great personal inconvenience to do what youre doing. thank you for helping us understand, and i hope thin...

Manchin, who stands almost alone in blocking democratic efforts to protect voting rights for the american people. how do you think that went? joining us now is democratic texas state representative senfronia thompson. its a real honor to have you here tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you for letting me join you. >> let me just start by asking how the meeting went with senator manchin today. >> i thought it went well. we were able to have dialogue with him. and tell him about our plight in ...

Win and gets knocked out then your vote gets reallocated to your second choice or third choice or fifth choice. its complicated. at least the tabulating is complicated even though the voting isnt all that complicated. right now were getting the first round of numbers on who voters ranked as their first choice. we expects to get more of these first round numbers tonight. but if nobody gets 50% they keep going until somebody does. the actual tabulation of who ultimately wins the democratic primary...

>> its a wig. [laughs] thats pretty much how i do it. thats my secret. steve, i want to ask you about what we saw today in that conversation i just had with senator klobuchar. seeing republican unanimity against even debating the voting rights bill and seeing senator mcconnell define this as something that hell die on and this is not a problem and therefore needs no solutions and republicans will entertain nothing on this issue how does that -- house that fit into broader understanding of whethe...

Pick in their primary, that person dollars to donuts will not win the general election in november. the democratic candidate will have a huge advantage. it just means whoever wins todays democratic primary will likely be the person who goes on to govern the city that has a population larger than roughly 40 of the 50 states. its a consequential thing. and a field of contenders is gigantic. andrew yang, the borough president from brooklyn whose name is eric adams, the former sanitation commissione...

Senator amy klobuchar. senator, it is great to have you, thank you so. much >> thanks, rachel. >> whats next? where does this go? >> whats next? we are going to georgia. the rules committee has not gone on the road for 20 years, and that is just the beginning. because my colleague maybe should have learned a lessons in georgia. my republican colleagues. and that is, i smiled when i heard the great senator warnock speak. the guy who said it all and probably one sentence, this is all summed up tha...