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Impeded slates of electors. so, one thing to make clear is that the vice president does not have that authority. of course, the whole [inaudible] that -- was trying to overturn the election. and if that was not even on the table, if that wasnt the idea in his head, that crowd may not have been there. or at least may not have had that talking point to go and -- mike pence. there are some other changes as well, about objections that make it much more difficult for single members of congress to sta...

When were thinking through voting access. and so, yes, technically 94% of americans found that when they voted it was easy, but what about the larger population of americans, of eligible voters, because we havent even touched the topic of how difficult it is to register to vote. so i want to implore the viewers to read that fine print. look at what the sample is before you start drawing conclusions on these numbers. look who the sample is and who theyre talking to. >> matt, nbc news reports a bi...

Talking about. >> matt, nbc news is reporting that a bipartisan group of senators led by susan collins, is planning to meet virtually. to find a path forward on issues from clarifying the electoral count, to protecting election officials from threats and intimidation. you tweeted earlier today about the electoral college act. merely fixing the act, without fixing underlying voting problems, would be like saying were going to make the winning pardon a poker game is accurately counted, without fix...

Early part of the crisis on what he would or wouldnt do with the pipeline, and they blocked german-made questions to go from estonia to ukraine, and they got bad press around that, and in the run up to todays meeting with biden, when the white house says if theres any intervention, we are shutting down north stream, schultz was okay with that when he accepted the invitation from biden to come to the white house. i think thats a big move, frankly. >> peter, what do you think? >> yeah, no, i think...

When i talk danger, extreme danger? as the department of homeland security secretary hall andrea mayorkas charged with overseeing the process said some of the evacuees flown out have been flagged on terror watch list. >> we deny access to individuals whose derogatory information is not qui involved and we do not feel which of the in the safety and security of american people. >> meanwhile a group of republican senators led by tom cotton turning up the heat on the president he broke his promise t...

Travel with the president to ohio right now. lets talk about state of the infrastructure negotiations. we hear republicans are going to come back with a counteroffer today. where is this headed? >> willie, thankfully ive got tsa pre-check for air force one. yeah, today is a critical day for the ongoing infrastructure talks. the republicans -- the group of senators led by senator capito are going to present just after 9:00 today their counteroffer. weve had a few weeks of going back and forth bet...

People from voting. >> lets bring in steve osunsami, joining us from atlanta. steve, georgias not alone here. states across the country are trying to tighten voting laws. >> reporter: thats right. there are republicans in dozens of statehouses across the country who are working on similar measures. and lets talk about politics for a second. most of these measures are aimed at the early vote and the mail-in vote. when you look at this state, which broke heavily for democrats in november and janua...

Republicans started shifting from the democratic party -- to the democratic party simply because the democrats back then, the party of racism, wanted to keep segregation in place and so the only choice that those democrats had were to leave the republican party and first they tried to become what they called dixie crats. that didnt work. and that is how the democrats back then became the republicans of today. and so they were always the party of racism. and back then, there was a group of senato...

Senator talks about is right now. taipeis message is clear, what happens here, what happens to this democracy could happen to others. >> translator: if its taiwan today, people should ask whos next. any country in the region, if it no longer wants to submit to the will of china, they will face similar military threats. >> we know that some u.s. lawmakers want to hear from tsai ing-wen in person in washington. a group of republican senators led by corey gardener of colorado, marco rubio of florid...

Challenge for this century for the u.s. for taiwan, the future the senator talks about is right now. and taipeis message is clear, what happens here, what happens to this democracy could happen to others. >> translator: if its taiwan today, people should ask whos next? any country in the region, if it no longer wants to submit to the will of china, they will face similar military threats. >> reporter: and we know that some law makers in the u.s. want to hear from her in person in washington. a g...