this is not asking people to stretch the imagination very much, to vote for the reauthorization of the voting rights act of 1965. >> i don't think so. no one here thinks so. you know, i'm a little bit of an expert on congressman fitzgerald, is it? fitzpatrick? see, i'm an expert because i looked at his wikipedia page. what's interesting about him is he's a former fbi agent, so clearly he's a member of the deep state, or he is an institutionalist who values the structures of democracy. it also turns out he was head of their election crimes commission and was once stationed in ukraine and in iraq. so i think he knows something about the fragility of democracy. and speaking of the fragility of democracy, i know the same numbers that zerlina talked about. and what frightens me about the republicans voting against this is the brazenness of it. their willingness to show their hand, that they do not even want to try to compete on a level