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The nullify cations. >> i completely agree. we've talked about this offline. the most insidious thing about all these losses they're handing to legislatures and politicians, the right to overrule results of it is the thing donald trump wanted and couldn't get in 2020 that saved us from that election being overturned. i think people need to focus on the most important thing. obviously the abridgements or things that limit voting is egregious. i have a lot of confidence in the american people to fight back on that. if you hand to a bunch of politicians the right to say, no, we won't semithose vo...

People, individual people, can hold their leaders accountable. the vote is their only way. they can call. they can write. but really, fundamentally, the only way leaders of this country are held accountable is through the vote. and the biggest concern, i have, in all of these bills getting passed. yes, the restrictions on voter rights are awful. is the potential for nullifications of elections. >> absolutely. >> that's the biggest concern i've had. the -- the invitation -- process and nullifications of elections. >> david, you want to weigh in? quickly, please. >> i completely agree and mat an...

Know under a new constitution what kind of country you're going to run, i can't apply for a job which i don't have a job description. >> do you worry that if the elections were held quickly, the muslim brotherhood, which is the most organized political movement in egypt, would gain perhaps even an unrepresentative share and then would try to write a constitution that had some abridgements on these personal freedoms because it had a particularly strict interpretation of islamic law? >> a lot. see, to have an election in three months' time, when the new parties, the parties of the youth who trig...

Description. >> do you worry that if the elections were held quickly, the muslim brotherhood, which is the most organized political movement in egypt, would gain perhaps even an unrepresentative share and then would try to write a constitution that had some abridgements on these personal freedoms because it had a particularly strict interpretation of islamic law? >> i do worry a lot. see, to have an election in three months' time, when the new parties, the parties of the youth who just triggered the revolution are in the making right now, to give them three months to compete against the muslim...

and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obama's speech from here in tahrir square. the president's speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely behind the democratic wave everywhere. though he didn't specifically mention one country. saudi arabia. the place where america's interests and value...