who with were chuck schumer. daniel and steven are both professors of government from harvard university, and co-authors of the book how democrats die. thank you. daniel, i will start with you. you two literally wrote the book on what is at stake here. if our democracy is in peril, will the voting rights sl legislation do enough to save it? >> there is certainly a lot to be done. there is a set of long term cures, long term work needed to repair our democracy. we also face a huge emergency, which is in the next two years, we may have elections. by the time we get to 2024, it's possible we will have a stolen election. we need to immediately address that prop in the short one. it's absolutely critical. >> steven, what do you say to