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Screen, he has made a number of concessions to this bill, why he would support it, calling for election day to be a federal holiday, and as well as issuing provisions around voting i.d. and either this or the john lewis act, he wants either package to move forward, because it will go on a bipartisan basis, so democrats are not doing this alone. but the political reality here still stands. there arent ten republican senators that can break that filibuster and we heard in your conversation, just l...

Election day a federal holiday, but provisions about voting i.d., was quickly embraced by stacey abrams who is the democrats leading voice on these issues. just as quickly knocked down by republicans. take a listen. >> i am endorsing the fact that we now have a list of priorities and that joe manchin is at the table and he is part of the conversation. its an important step forward as we try to protect the freedom to vote and protect access to the vote that all 50 democratic senators are part of ...

On january 6th and why dont we want to fix it. >> one of the key things hes proposed to change the sweeping election overhaul bill is to require voting id in states across the country. thats something a lot of democrats dont agree with. they did have a caucus meeting just moments ago. they talked about this issue, trying to find a compromise. the democratic goal is to get all 50 of their members to agree on thing, to make the argument that its republicans blocking the plan going forward. as i sa...

Something out on voting i.d. >> voter fraud, didnt find any actual fraud -- >> well, we let the commission -- the commission was having a tremendous problem legally getting papers from various states. like california. they were absolutely hardlining. they didnt want to give this commission -- it was just a quick commission. headed up by vice president pence, to look at voter fraud. the problem the commission had is we had to have a vast amount of lawyers which i didnt want to bother with because...

In voting i.d. -- a repeal of the voter i.d. act, things like that. shouldnt it be easy? it sounds like it should be. >> it should be because absolutely republicans time and time again are unable to accomplish their extremely conservative policy goals through congress or through the executive branch, so theyre seeking to do it through the courts. again, overturning roe versus wade is they can pass those bans in congress so will try to do it in the courts. president trump and republicans in congr...

Whats interesting, you look at the -- situation, compared to the situation in north carolina with the voting i.d. law, if youre going to look at the face of it, on the face, this isnt discriminatory and but if you look at the purpose of it, in north carolina, you could really see what this is all about. i think thats ultimately what yates was doing here. we know shes done no media since this happened. i think this is really for the attack that the white house made on her, it was extraordinary gi...

Your party at its best is color blindtokracy tends to turn a blind eye, what courts are saying a deliberate attempts to disenfranchise people, but saying the only way you can justify some of these bills is because youre deliberately trying to disinclude people. you have north carolina they actually went in court and the court said the combination of all these things together is just an attempt to exclude and i think if your party spoke out against that more then i think we would have a better co...

Republicans around some of his key issues, whether it be obamacare, that hasnt happened. and hes talked about that as a failure of his during his white house years, his inability to breakdown some of this fierce partisan ship in some ways maybe he contributed to it, in some ways hell certainly have these approval ratings to talk to democrats. the question is whether or not he can ever really rally republicans to his cause. some of these causes around voting rights, republicans on a different sid...

Turned out, great if we had more access, but if you want to be dumb and have leaders you didnt have any influence over fine dont vote. but i dont think people should be compelled to vote. it works great for australia, not for us. >> what do you think, ms. soto? >> i agree with jason on this one. i do not think we should have mandatory voting. what i do think we should do is do away with the barriers. lets do away with the registration barriers the voting day barriers. look here in texas how hard...

Their ambition has been a push to limit voting rights especially for minorities with voting i.d. requirements. this is what they did with poll taxes. the question is how will this movement end up. will the right wing push the bush-boehner club or will they put them in their plaits taking votes and bouncing candidates crust, huckabee and carsons into the back seats. the speakers defeat on homeland security the weakness of bush in the polls come to a division. for the first time in a half century ...