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awe >> greetings everyone, youre watching simone. theres a lot of talk on capitol hill about how speaker kevin mccarthys so-called been win -- but i have to ask, how can it be a win if the country is still at risk of defaulting on its own debt? congressman -- is here to weigh in on this and much more. former vice president mike pence testifying before a federal grand jury this week as part of the special counsel investigation into donald trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election res...

Minority voters were given short trip, in my view. were in court right now, in new york, to try to give the independent state of redistricting commission, another shot to draw that map. so, we all need to focus on what we can focus -- what we can control or influence. >> so, you are not of the camp that says democrats should go forward and draw partisan lines. rather, do whats good for democracy? >> look, i think that democrats enabling and enforcing and propelling full participation in the elec...

Internationally. putin is the leader of this attack on democracy. the links of trump and trump-ism is clear. in order to lead biden has to pretend we are a better democracy than we currently are. >> eddie, in addition to georgia, black voters are having their vote suppressed, they fear how difficult to have their vote suppressed. there is also texas where voters are being disenfranchised. some 23,000 mail-in ballots were tossed out, almost all of them from failing to meet the voter i.d. requirem...

Those three states. those things are usually exclusive. 200,000 people, black people in wisconsin, have their vote suppressed. the margin was way short of that, john, and you know that. >> but lets -- >> we have some instead of the 2016 and going back to that, lets look at the new poll that came out today. one of our guest newspapers, washington post" abc poll. on that question of ele electability, watch them up against donald trump in a head to head race. you can see biden leading by ten points...

Also about recognizing that when we all turn out, we make a difference. right? you know, i think about it sometimes when you look at, for example, in the south. oh, certain communities just dont go out to vote. its because theres been a tradition in those states of suppressing that vote. when you have people in positions of leadership who actively engage the community, folks turn out. thats what happened in alabama. so thats what i see happening in the country right now. as people are saying, im...