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Next election. across the country republicans are passing election laws that make it harder to vote. threatening election workers with criminal penalties and tearing down guardrails in key states that kept trumps big lie from succeeding. well tell you what these voting changes are broadly and specifically in three key states, the direct impact on the 2022 mid-term elections and ultimately how america is governed and by whom. >> record voter turnout this year with over 100 million ballots cast be...

Legislatures are trying to stop that participation. >> what might it mean for future elections? do you believe that the 2020 election here in georgia was free and fair? >> i believe that a lot of georgians have concerns that there were issues with it. >> trump is now even warning republicans wont vote until laws that protected against his election conspiracies are changed. >> our democracy is in danger. we are in peril right now. >> my fear is that 2020 was not the low point for democracy but a ...

Threaten election workers with criminal penalties, and tear down guardrails in key states that kept doesnts big lie from succeeding. over the next hour were tell you what these voting changes are broadly and specifically in three key states, the direct impact on the 2022 midterm elections, and ultimately how america is governed and by whom. >> record voter turnout this year with over 100 million ballots cast before voting even started this morning. >> look at turnout everywhere in america. this ...

All making moves, all meeting with donors or visiting iowa. theres a dozen other people you can add to that list as well. right now the president says hes not worried about any of that group. i think, you know, at the current status, its unlikely any of those people would be able to make the argument which basically is the only way to beat former president trump in a primary, which is that president trump is a great guy, we love what he did the last four years but hes just not the best person to...

>> its a real dichotomy, george. some republican analysts are saying between the rank and file republican voters and the elected local party officials who are driving these voting changes and the legislature after legislature trying to invalidate elections in arizona and now they moved on to pennsylvania. the other day and the other night there was an opthalmologist doctor from new hampshire who is going to quit as well or he will change parties because in the republican legislature hes been den...

Also does not allow for drive-through voting either. neither does new york. neither does massachusetts. neither does minnesota. i mention those states because senators gillibrand, warren and klobuchar have jumped into if fight, attacking texas as racist. the things this law does there state doesnt allow. chris: in about 30 seconds, susan, where do we stand here? because red states are going to continue, you can you call it new voting restrictions or reimposing what the old rules were, pre-pandem...

Also does not allow for drive-through voting either. neither does new york. neither does massachusetts. neither does minnesota. i mention those states because senators gillibrand, warren and klobuchar have jumped into if fight, attacking texas as racist. the things this law does there state doesnt allow. chris: in about 30 seconds, susan, where do we stand here? because red states are going to continue, you can you call it new voting restrictions or reimposing what the old rules were, pre-pandem...

Why protecting voting rights is so important. the white house has really framed this as a moral imperative that the country needs to pursue. and one white house official this morning was specifically saying that the president would call out those efforts in republican-led states to enact voting changes. the white house -- the president would say they reflect the most egregious attempts to harm the integrity of our democracy since the civil war. the president is expected to push back in that as h...