shifts and the present realities are not on their side. and for me that's fundament ela problem. people died for my right to vote. my grandfather and aunt both marched in selma, alabama. she hid from the ku klux klan the night before the march. and so for me the right to vote is a sacred one. and for republicans not to understand we should expand access to more people and then fight over the ideas later and whoever gets the most votes wins, that's the system that we should all want. that's really a troubling reality to be living. >> ana marie cox, this is lay-up. this is not complicated. this is not asking people to stretch the imagination, to vote for the reauthorization of the voting rights act of '65. >> i don't think so. i'm an expert because i looked at his wikipedia page. and you know what's interesting about him is he's a former fbi agent, so clearly he's a member