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Point. they are really seeming to be more focused on restricting -- passing restrictive laws that really would directly impact those voters who we did see turn out in record numbers, especially voters of color, other marginalized folks in 2020. but, you know, one thing i would point out, nicolle, and this is a story we reported first day on the 19th. i mean you have organizations like stacey abramsons fair fight action that are going on offense in the face of the restrictive voting laws and vote...

With an actual deputy of justice that works on behalf of the american people. to see a.g. garland file that suit was just a lint of a relief. but we have to keep pushing. here we have not just voter suppression, but literally taking the vote away. i saw the purging of over 100,000 voters in georgia. you know, rev f this was another country we would be talking about sanctions, we would be talking about cutting foreign aid. and we have a term for this -- because you know i also focus on foreign po...

>> absolutely. this past friday, before we kicked off our initiative, the secretary of state announced he was purging 100,000 voters from the voting rolls. now were seeing in one county, a majority african-american county in southwest georgia, theyre attempting to close polling sites there. in addition to that theyre actually pulling people off the board of elections. this is a blatant abuse of power and we need federal legislation to stop that, to actually expand some protection, and we need to...

I think perhaps people can be uncomfortable with change of any kind. i really hope that this is not what is doing this. i hope that -- i hope that it is maybe coming out of the pandemic and people were having trouble coping and someone latched on to this and its erupted. >> okay. this is coming from a conservative think tank a heritage foundation and they have an entire page dedicated to critical race theory including institutionalizing across american society and purging whiteness to purge capi...

Institutionalizing across american society and purging whiteness to purge capitalism and the left is implementing critical theory in schools. if you combine that with what you see on the fox news channel when it comes to crt, these kind of places where this misinformation is coming from? >> i believe so. i believe that louden county in particular in our school system is being used as a hub to promote these falsehoods and it is unfortunate because we are a stellar school system. we are one of the...

Time that allowed joe manchin to say, okay, look, lets put voter id and some of these other things on the list and demonstrate that republicans are simply going to stand in the way of this. >> are they drafting a follow-up bill now that will take the portions that need to be taken? you know, we had jon favreau on yesterday he said the biggest problem is not even addressed here which is state legislators being able to overturn the voting inside their own states. are we getting a bill thats going ...

Wont touch voter roles. why wouldnt you want to clean up voter roles. not to expel people. people that died, a people that moved. people that relocated, you shouldnt be getting multiple ballots to locations you dont live anymore. thats not purging. and republicans have to do a better job of explaining that. steve: because i heard on the radio morning on network newscast, not this one, describing what the republicans were able to do, they said in the news report essentially the republicans want t...

Filibuster threshold and we can get somewhere on not just voting rights but on infrastructure too. its interesting how things are panning out at the moment where you get some of the moderate republicans saying we want to legislate. >> imagine how popular it will be if within a couple of weeks of each of these bills passing, you pass a significant infrastructure bill and you pass a voting rights bill. there are going to be a lot of -- >> thats the rub right there. >> that isnt hard for mcconnell ...

Of celebrating that we still have work to do in this nation. until all of us are free, none of us are free. one of the real components of a democracy is people having free and fair access to the ballot. currently in 47 states were seeing voter suppression laws, just like my home state of georgia, where even yesterday the secretary of state is purging 100,000 reporters from the -- rolls from the state of georgia. we need to make sure we protect the rights of voters in a democracy that is going to...

When they go after states that have discriminated, and so -- and then it allows local officials to do purging in a much more aggressive way, and so its a problem. i think a lot of people saw it as a start, including stacey abrams, but at the end of the day, does it matter. the gop has shown you who they are. they are saying we dont want to compromise, we dont want your bill. the thing we have to remember is they are the party of states rights. they dont want the federal government in the busines...