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It should come as no surprise that polls show americans don't like the idea of of congress messing with he a state's electoral results. and yet that's what we saw republicans try to do on january the 6th. so how can we ensure the safety of our democracy by preventing that from happening again? solutions are not out of reach. john avlon has tonight's reality check. >> that's right, michael. look, there should now be no doubt that the united states suffered an attempted coup. but there's still a lot of doubt about what can be done to stop the next attempt. and without real legal accountability a...

The 14th amendment section 2 that you just read talks about and further clarifies that that citizens of the several states. so we look at this mandate that is given to the federal government. but, importantly here, pete, the constitution does not tell specifically to the states or to the federal government how exactly the process happens to count the people in the states. and so that's left up to the political branches. pete: why does the supreme court step. in if there is rationale. why are they stepping in and creating confusion here? >> it's a ridiculous act of political activism. the const...