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Any attempt to split that? >> no, not really. i mean, there was different analysis during the challenges about the effect they have on voters but what justice alito says in his majority opinion, any time you change the vogt rules it imposes some kind of burden on somebody somehow. and theres always been a burden to voting. he says you got to get up, go to the poll, apply for a ballot. you got to put it in the mailbox. those are all to some extent inconveniences so the test, he says, under the vo...

System of elections. that we dont really have a democracy. you know, lawrence you know this perfectly well. the laws are not self implicating. people have to obey them, respect them, and implement them. if you have enough people and we apparently had enough in 2020 and now still moving on, dont believe it who denigrated then we dont have a democracy and thats where im worried about. were setting horrible precedents. >> it seems that the most troubling aspect of these bills is what happens after ...

Perfectly well, congress passes laws but the laws are not self-implementing. people have to obey them and respect them and implement them. and if we have enough people and we apparently had enough in 2020 and now still going on who dont believe in it, who denigrate it, then we dont have a democracy, and that is what im worried about. were setting horrible precedence. >> it seems that the most troubling aspects of these bills is what happens after people vote. yes, they are trying to put hurdles ...

On what you believe and not as some sort of cultural monolith or -- but you are saying that its all about -- >> i can admit that that i voted for republican governors and democratic presidents but -- >> martha: why are you talking about people trying to convince you from one plantation or another? what does that mean? >> because this is the rhetoric weve started to hear from conservatives when they say black people are living on a democratic plantation which is very insulting and racist in and o...

Behavior incompatible with the office of presidency or misusing ones office for personal gain. those are the kind of things that congress is looking into here. but this question of whether the president violated a criminal statute, that is just not the stand ard. matthew whitaker knows that and he should be ashamed because hes misleading the american people about what an impeachment offense is. >> and the stunt republicans tried to make today and one 2020 candidate gaining support among several ...

Have been easy for the white house to say, what she had said to reporters off the report was untrue and ridiculous and there was no reason to get rid of her. instead, they pretended or maybe it is true. they reacted as if it were true and pushed her out. i think there was probably something else going on which is a lot of people had their knives out for her. >> hanna, do you agree with that? >> i do. i think jonathan is spot on there. it is hard to know what the president is thinking. it seems l...

Allow new faces into the party. there was a lot of in fighting there. this is where a lot of this started. the president trump inserted himself into that. it kind of in a way blew up in his face. democrats in congress at that point pelosi and the so-called squad, they were divided at that point. now he united them in a way against them. this is kind of blown up in his face and not in a good way and now we see that he obviously does not want these in the headlines ahead of 2020 republicans up for...

Look, what presidents say matters. it matters. when we stay silent, our silence is complicit. thats what i learned. their silence is complicit. i promise you, if i get elected president, i will be a president who stands against racism, who forces inclusion and intolerance everywhere in our society, our institutions, our voting groups and in our hearts. it matters what we say. its important to stand by and start by recognizing black, hispanic, asian american workers, native american workers in co...

>> right. >> they need to make sure they dont get obliterated in places like metropolitan detroit. thats someone where the targeting is likely to be. maricopa county in arizona. theres softness in the arizona polling. they need to make sure they dont get completely wiped out in the suburbs among women, as what happened in the midterm elections in 2018. they need to increase their floor among these voting groups. >> jonathan, we talked about this earlier in the show, and axios is looking at kamal...

Appeal to those kinds of voting groups, which basically you cannot win elections without. at least in the house map. you could argue, looking at the results from these midterms, that you can still win senate races in places -- in red states where there are large, rural communities that offset those losses. as a strategy going forward, as a party, if they sentence themselves to only being able to win those places, they are not going to be able to be successful and i think that has sunk in. >> you...