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Needed voting rights and our very democracy is at risk. they dont give a dang about that. you work with these republicans. are there two republicans in your view who might be open to doing what manchin and sinema will not and go ahead and make the changes needed to the filibuster in order to have voting rights? are there two republicans? >> i know of none. again, there is a lot of focus on two democrats but the reality is we have 50 republicans who do not believe that we have a problem with voti...

Could give him the house. we talked about the threat for democracy in the future, but its threatened now, is it not? >> it is. after the 2020 census this was a concern that journalists had that they would be in the position to pick the voters as opposed to the candidates. there are some states in which democrats have a similar advantage and they were able to gerrymander the map for candidates. there are more republican states that are in a position to lock in republican seats whether they want t...

Democracy and voting rights and on this gerrymandering problem in particular. thank you so much for making time tonight. >> thank you so much, rachel. ill tell you, paul waldman was writing about this at "the washington post." i thought his headline on it was almost perfect. he said the redistricting apocalypse is here. republican campaign more than a decade in the making comes to fruition. its goal is not merely to give republicans an advantage in close elections, its goal is to make election...

Or out-litigate gerrymandering. congress has to pass legislation to protect voting rights. there simply is no substitute right now. hopefully all of the voter suppression, all of the extreme gerrymandering were seeing right now is a wake-up call for congress to act. that yes, this economic legislation is critically important, but nothing, nothing is more important than protecting american democracy. >> ari berman, senior reporter at "mother jones" magazine, who has just been a juggernaut on demo...