us. sophia, i have heard you say protecting voting rights are the vote of our lives. we have heard the kamala harris talked about the john lewis act, but the problem is, they are not going to pass in the senate. if they don t get something through congress, what can this administration do? because let s be honest, it ain t looking good. you are absolutely right that we need comprehensive federal legislation to resolve the democratic crisis that we really are in, these waves of voter suppression, these constant attack on our electoral system. there is many more than what we are doing right now. at the end of the day, there are the court battles that we are fighting in courts, but the administration can certainly play a part with additional rules that they are putting in place at the administrative level, in addition to joining
the vote. the history, a crisis, a plan. liam caldwell joins us tonight, an anchor with the washington post, where she is leading the coverage on the january 6th hearings. she also coauthors the papers early to go to newsletter, and luke broadwater is here. pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the new york times. luke, a january 6th committee s subpoenaing the secret service records. but here s a, think if the secret already deleted these messages, how do they get them back? it s a great question. he says consumed the january 6th committee s discussions over the last two days. there were some relief from the committee that there are perhaps some high tech ways to recover these messages that no message is ever truly deleted or lost. i don t know you know, i m not a tech genius. but apparently there are discussions about how they could get them back. so, what this subpoena is doing
here in the state, and in other places of the country, making it more difficult for people to vote. and we know what we need to do, one of the things we need to do is pass the john lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act. we need to elect people who will defend these rights up and down the ballot for district attorneys to state attorneys general, to local sheriffs, to governors. vice president kamala harris making it crystal clear that the administration s fight to protect voting rights is far from over. since the beginning of 2021, 34 re-district voting laws have already been passed in 18 states. 34 more are moving through 11 state legislatures right now. eric holder, marc elias, and four sophia lin lakin are here to discuss with us. sophia, i have heard you say the vote of our lives.
that somehow donald trump did not lose fair and square. but instead, what we ve seen is the republican party take the big lie and transform it into law. so, we are seeing state after state after state engaged in enacting new laws, and new practices that make it harder for people to vote and easier for people to subvert the election results. so, it s not just that we are seeing voter suppression. but we are actually seeing the undermining of vote counting and vote certification. right now in pennsylvania, there are three counties that are refusing to count ballots as part of the republican primary for senate, that were ordered to be counted as a result of a federal court decision in the third circuit, a state court decision and this is the prelude to what we are about to see in 2022 and 2024, i fear. and those three counties, they are allowed to say, no,