of the voting rights act, the supreme court invited congress to come back and rewrite portions of that law. that right now is what democrats are trying to do. one of the questions that republicans have to answer is, why they see it as not being in their best interests to really cement foundation of voting rights in this country. and so as that's happening, yes, you do have this effort sort of driven by democrats, but again, there really is no process right now to get either the freedom to vote act or the john lewis reauthorization across the finish line. >> and jeff, i guess the other question is, what changed between then and now, for them to say, not interested now? >> well, a couple of things. one, you have members of the republican party who are using as cover donald trump's big lie about the election that he lost, suggesting that there was significant fraud in elections when there was none. and the other is turnout. for whatever reason, there are those republicans who have accepted as fact, that when more people turn out at the polls,