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But maybe out of the ashes of this current debate, the eca reform could get some democrats and republicans interested in a bipartisan proposal that looked more at election subversion and not voting suppression. voting suppression is the sticking point. republicans are not going to change their minds on voting suppression. they dont believe that these laws being passed are suppressing votes. and whether thats true or not, theres no breakthrough likely there. but you do have some republicans who d...

Laws. >> the bill passes. >> that tighten their grip on how elections are run and who counts the votes. they have also been removing, replacing, or demoting election officials who would not endorse donald trumps false allegations of fraud. a dozen states enacted 17 laws last year that paved the way for future election subversion. at least 19 have passed laws that simply make it harder to vote. republicans argue that the bills are necessary to restore what they call election integrity and will ma...

Im going to end with the hope. we have moved a lot of senators who didnt believe in changing the rules at all for the filibuster in the senate who now do support it, and unfortunately, we still have a couple that arent there, and i just hope that the debate on the senate floor and the push over this weekend shows those remaining senators that this is about which side of history youre going to stand on and the country needs them to stand on the right side of history and pass the john lewis voting...

Supreme court that said as long as you dont openly say it racial, as long as you say its about partisanship, theyve essentially said you can do anything you want to voters. you can -- any outrage, any indignity, its fine. you can probably do bubbles and a bar of soap at this point as long as you dont say its racial. are you concerned we no longer have that backstop of protection in the supreme court because six of them dont believe in voting rights? >> well, we know that to be true. we know the ...

Succession. >> to give you a sense, senator, of how offbalance biden appeared today, now were getting used to these random outbusts but watch. >> we missed this time. the state legislative bodies continue to change the law, not as to who can vote, who gets to count the vote. count the vote. count the vote. its about election subversion. >> laura: senator, i guess when you say it three times really loudly it becomes more convincing. >> well, he seemed very confused and irritable during his trip t...

We miss the first time, we can come back and try the second time. we missed this time. we missed this time. in the state legislative bodies continues to change the law not as to who can vote, but who gets to count the vote, count the vote. count the vote. its about election subversion, not just whether or not people get to vote. who counts the vote. thats a disavowed. thats what makes this so different from anything else we have ever done. i dont know that we can get it done. i know witness thin...

But with her dead set opposition to changing the filibuster, she is ensuring the bills are going nowhere. apparently, for senator sinema, protecting the rights of the minority in the senate is more important than protecting minority voters. the combined freedom to vote john r. lewis act. the house passed it in a party line vote with a goal of passing it in the senate by monday, mlk day. so much for that. despite being intentionally undercut by a senator from his own party, after meeting with sen...

The last election. the fact youve got 69 candidates and 30 states running for governor, that was another outlet where then president donald trump tried to pressure governors to change election results. >> thats right. well, i mean, we know that in 2024 there is going to be an attempt to change the election results. and we have to prepare what are we going to do about it. we have some provisions in the freedom to vote act, my bills, that would try to prevent some of that, prevent some of the elec...

Theres one thing every senator and every american should remember. history has never been kind to those who sided with voter suppression over voters rights. and it will be even less kind with those who side with election subversion. so i ask every elected official in america, how do you want to be remembered? at consequential moments in history, they present a choice. do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? do you want to be on the side of john lewis, or bull connor? do you ...

We see one political party being dominated by this notion of the big lie, by this idea, this slander on american democracy that its rigged. and you see states moving across the country to restrict the vote and not just that, as you said, to change who counts the votes. election subversion in a sense on top of voter suppression. and congress has the power, constitutionally and legally, to stop it. the question is, does it have the political will? were going to see this week, were going to see deb...