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The moral imperative of passing legislation to protect against voter suppression, electoral subversion, dark money and partisan gerrymandering. sound great. im all for it. theres nothing wrong with what the president is saying, and im glad hes saying it, but once again what is he planning to do about it? what will joe biden do this week when house democrats unveil their revamped voting bill named for the late civil rights icon congressman john lewis? what will biden do when a group of about thre...

That republicans are even allowed to make this request is a part of georgias controversial new voting law. last month president biden called election subversion the most dangerous threat to free and fair elections in our history. >> never before has there been an attempt by state legislatures to take over the ability to determine who won. not count the votes, determine who won. we have election officials across the board that theyre deciding to push out of the way. >> on friday after a meeting...

Continue to pressure them because, you know, we have the opportunity to do something. we have the responsibility to do something and theres a moral imperative that those of us who are in positions in leadership have, and so i do call on the speaker to -- to reconvene us so that we can take action. i call on majority leader schumer to do it in senate and i call on biden to use his executive power to extend this eviction moratorium. >> lets hope they are list anything. millions of peoples of peopl...

Because, you know, we have the opportunity to do something. we have the responsibility to do something and theres a moral imperative that those of us who are in positions in leadership have, and so i do call on the speaker to -- to reconvene us so that we can take action. i call on majority leader schumer to do it in senate and i call on biden to use his executive power to extend this eviction moratorium. >> lets hope they are listening. millions of peoples homes depend on it. thank you so much ...

Had donald trump won. state senate republicans sent a letter earlier in the week. its a move that could result in a republican takeover of election operations in the states most democratic county. that republicans are even allowed to make this request is a part of georgias controversial new voting law. last month president biden called election subversion the most dangerous threat to free and fair elections in our history. >> never before has there been an attempt by state legislatures to take o...

And i certainly hope that senator manchin will see how critical it is to be able to get our pressing needs in this country done with that reconciliation bill. so i am hopeful that what senator schumer has said with regard to those 50 votes still holds true. >> before i let you go, i want you to talk about the eviction moratorium, getting a tweet from speaker pelosi about 30 minutes ago with regards to this eviction moratorium and she said the cdc has the power to extend the eviction moratorium a...

And that is what we need. the other reason why we need to extend this eviction moratorium is because, yes, the states have the money and they need time, they still need time to get these funds out. so since january, i have been with my progressive colleagues organizing, lobbying, writing bills, lobbying the white house. just weeks ago i led the letter with progressive colleagues to extend the eviction moratorium by that additional month. then again we heard very late that the white house would n...

Im glad that the state legislators are in d.c., theyre heroes for doing this. otherwise youre going to see large scales of, again, minority voters in texas discriminated against, and not just in texas but in about four or five other key states that also needs to have preclearance backup. >> and i think thats imperative you raised that because of the census last year, several states have lost districts. texas certainly is among those that were going to see all the 50 states redraw lines and how t...

Said are following whats happening with vaccine breakthrough cases, both asymptomatic and symptomatic, jonathan, that it looks like only less than 1% of the total cases are vaccine breakthrough cases. that 55% plus of individuals in hospitalized youth across the country are unvaccinated. i think that context will be really vital, who people turn on the news, theres a lot of anxiety and confusion. >> i just need to play for you -- and i hesitate to do this, because hes so loathsome, but its imper...

140 million of them, 12.6 million many texas, 5 million people in texas who make less than a living wage, regardless of their color, race, or creed, thats who get hurts the most. and they represent 30% of the electorate. thats why people are so fired up. they dont do this, not in a narrow way, but in a full constitutional way. well be right back here, 22, 26, and it will be worse. regression and retrogression never gets better. thats why were marching for democracy. >> its saturday, but im going...