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31 past the hour. now to capitol hill, where senate democrats are making voting rights their first big priority for 2022. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling on his democratic colleagues to do whatever it takes to pass voting rights laws. he says if a bill doesnt pass by the 17th of january, martin luther king jr. day, the senate may vote on bypassing the filibuster. schumer invoked the first anniversary of the january 6th insurrection as a reason for acting now, saying in a letter, ...

Nothing else is working. their economic agenda has taken the country in to the ditch. look at inflation, open borders, defund the police movement in our cities. look at national security and the disastrous exit from afghanistan. theyre doing anything that they can to distract from the issues. theyre playing a card that is dangerous. that is a divisive partisan and polarizing speech yesterday trying to propagandize this issue. its easier, not harder, to vote in america today than ever before. the...

Reflection, of course, and we owe a great debt of gratitude to those officers who are not with us anymore, who gave their lives to save us that day and to save the capitol and made sure that the election process continues. thats a debt that we cant repay, but we can honor their memory by seeking truth and accountability. but the opportunity for america here is to renew their commitment to this country. new american patriotism, as i spoke about and the president spoke about as well, for us to add...

And despite long odds with his leadership in the congress, working together with president obama and then vice president biden, we fornged great progress for american families, the american recovery act, the dodd frank reforms and the affordable care act, to name a few. and as we all know, harry truly loved his home state of nevada. over his entire career, he fought tirelessly for nevada in every possible way for its working families whether preserving the natural environment or protecting its p...

Dele judge miez our election process, and our senate must advance systemic democracy reforms to repair our republic or else the events of that day will not be an aberration. they will be the new norm. schumer looks to pass with a bipartisan vote. that may prove difficult when democrats dont have the entire caucus on board. two senators have expressed opposition to changing the filibuster. joining us now, capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell. good morning and happy new year. lets start w...

Ballot and the impartial administration of the election process, then you need to come to the floor of the united states senate and explain yourself. thats really what were trying to do here is have the kind of debate that the filibuster was supposed to encourage. but over the course of the last several decades has had the exact opposite effect. >> new hampshire democratic u.s. senator maggie hassan, in the middle of it, presiding over some of the debate tonight. as you were describing, it will ...

Ago with the 2000 presidential election. george w. bush versus al gore. that of course, came down to the state of florida. and of paper thin 500 voting majority for bush. in its wake, the u.s. commission and conducted an election process and found, quote, a widespread voter disenfranchisement that fell harshly of black voters. they concluded that statewide, black voters were nearly ten times more likely than non black voters to have their ballot rejected. there were multiple issues that contribu...

Board even with an appeal from the president with voting rights? >> what is at stake is the democracy. theres an effort by loyalists, republican state legislatures to high the election process. only takes a majority vote to pass a law that restricts voting rights. why should it take a supermajority vote to protect voting rights? >> but i guess ill ask you the question again, though. why do you think manchin would get on board with that, considering what we have seen from him over the last year o...

Democrats exactly where they started on this. >> lets take a listen in right now to senator gary peters in michigan, saying our democracy has survived unprecedented challenges. lets listen to what he has to say. we should celebrate that we had record turnout, even in a once in a lifetime pandemic. and we should commend the election workers who made this incredible feat possible. instead, too many people including too many of my republican colleagues, have continued to sew doubt in the integrit...

Through narrower legislation? >> well, i have not given up hope that we can pass this voting rights legislation, because, as you know, alicia, the original voting rights was reauthorized unanimously in 2006 in the senate, and nearly unanimously in the house. but what were seeing today is one major political party, the party of donald trump, opposed to some people exercising their fundamental right to vote in this country. and so, yes, we need to address the electoral count act, but we also need ...