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Find out more about what happened on january 6th. >> linda greenhouse, analyst for the new york times, lecturer at liu law school. again, i really appreciate you making the time on short notice. thanks for being here. all right, all day long, yesterday, and all day long, today, and live right now, the united states senate has been debating democratic legislation to establish federal protections for voting rights, and to block the subversion of election results. with republicans, unanimously, opp...

States senate, and im not going to absolve nor should any of us absolve any member of the united states senate from taking on a responsibility to follow through on the oath that they all took to support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> in his address at the national action network, president biden on vote the legacy of dr. king. >> its no longer about just who gets to vote. its about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all. its about voter suppression a...

Democrats want at all. >> not at all. and to be clear, it is necessary. it is not sufficient. this is the -- the baseline of what congress should be able to do in a bipartisan fashion. we desperately need election reform. we need to counteract voter suppression and election subversion efforts that are going on. the democrats are doing whats necessary to defend our democracy with these bills. but in the absence of republican support, if reforming the electoral count act is the very least that can...

Filibuster. but is filibuster reform really such a crazy idea? john avlon has your reality check. >> thats right. the fight to vote is in overdrive now. and it is happening from the halls of congress to state courthouses near you. in washington, d.c., senate democrats are poised to push through a debate on the freedom to vote and john lewis voting rights act ahead of martin luther king day. they argue some version of this legislation is needed to defend our democracy from voter suppression and e...

The electoral college will not address the issue at hand, ensure all americans will have access to the ballot box free from voter intimidation, vote suppression. >> right. >> the state sanctions is a subversion. >> democrats dont have the votes. they tried, right? they tried for months. they dont. i wonder if the naacp if you have a particular more limited change perhaps even by executive action of the president that you want to focus attention on now because it does not appear those acts are go...

Things, voter suppression and election subversion. its about making it harder to vote, who gets to count the votes, and whether your vote counts at all. and have to the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting advancement act, so support might unconstitutional federal takeover of elections or youre a racist. we have one serious question tonight, where are the disenfranchised voters exactly? ny and all of his decades, joe biden i think he served a state of delaware 5,872,708 days as a senato...

Nashent stages. its not clear that they would have the support of the vast majority of either party. the one good piece of news i would say is that mitch mcconnell, while he hasnt said he supports the idea, he hasnt said he opposes it either. this is sort of what he did with the infrastructure talks, sort of an implicit go ahead to the mod ral republicans negotiating this like susan collins to find ten votes. even if they were going find ten republican votes as senator warnock notes here you are...

Less solid land can cause buildings, roads, and pipelines to collapse. president biden has begun the new year pushing for voting rights, calling this a defining moment for us democracy. he was in georgia today, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mail, and to restore state voting laws meant to prevent discrimination. jim crow 2.0 is about two insidious things — voter suppression and election subversion. its no longer about who gets to vote, its abou...

>> this isnt the same thing as, you know, full voting rights reform, to be clear. i want to listen to something a democratic medical care of the january 6th committee pete aguilar said about this. >> what weve said is its no substitute for dealing with voting rights, which is what we are focused on this week. there will be a time and a place to address the electoral count act, but this is also an item that could be a recommendation out of the january 6th committee. >> this isnt the full deal the...

With the doors to open the subversion of democracy, we knew it was instrumental to pass federal voting rights protection. we also know here in georgia that kristen sinema and joe manchin have been blocking that effort so im not surprised to be in the position were in but i see the urgency of this, we cannot give up. we cannot let our guard down. the other side of the aisle are nut letting up and as you mentioned earlier, ayman, theyre continuing to chop away at our voting rights. republican-led ...