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Here's what you need to know for the event taking place on Saturday.

Thousands of activists are marching in Washington D.C. Saturday for a pair of rallies to demand federal voting rights protections and a wide range of civil rights reforms.

People from across the country gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday morning for two rallies on the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.

The march in Washington will mark 58 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about equality. Saturdays event focuses on voting rights.

Seize these are about your individual future for the party itself and individual people. >> it gets to whether or not the democrats can tell a story about a lie that led to a deadly insurrection, forcefully, four officers died by suicide, others by bodily harm and led to the largest disenfranchise of a campaign in modern history. thats out of our hand and up to be democrats. we mentioned gerrymandering. let me read you more from a great reporting in the "new york times." redistricting fight arri...

Move at all on any kind of voting rights bill. >> juanita, about a minute left but your final thoughts. >> yeah, when it comes to the voting rights bill i thought it was smart to have vice president harris up there talking to members, because we know that the only way that this voting rights law would be passed would be through a carveout in the phil or getting ten good republicans. alicia, there are not ten good republicans who will vote for it so this gets me thinking of, okay, what is she neg...

Disenfranchise. there wasnt any fraud, chris krebs, byron krebs, life long republicans. >> you know, nicolle, ive been thinking a lot today about the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act. it was literally created to have a right to the constitution. that was a right that was not protected by our government until a century. what is the worst about this? voting right 9 or voting right 2 with this.

Us back from that brink and the economy is growing. things to help families with children, this infrastructure package, assuming it passes, is both bipartisan but also great story telling in every district in america. you can talk about the people being put back to work and to say my opponents didnt want to do any of that. they wanted to give tax cuts to the wealthy. theres also great economic messaging around taxes. they dont want to make the changes. so this is pretty mistake stuff. you have t...

Rights leaders which are going to the senators, but we wont get there until who are willing to come over and do the right thing. we have seen that has not happened in the last several years. so we will need the president, along with a regular americans, to get rid of the filibusters for us to be able to do this. we have our democracy on the line right now with voting right, with so much of the legislate were trying to get done. i think this carveout is an appropriate one. >> this voting rights i...

Than back then. kerry sanders, cruising on his way to the caribbean. good to see you. coming up, everybody. the right for voting right, the senate goes nowhere. the executive director of the advancement project is with me next, on how her organization is preparing for this battle, ahead. r this ballttle, ahead. ♪since you hung around♪ welcome back, america. it sure is good to see you. with relapsing forms of ms... theres a lot to deal with. not just unpredictable relapses. all these other ...