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Of us. and our side has to be up, not agonizing, but organizing to make sure that we battle on every single state and every single district to make sure that they cannot, in fact, implement a plan of voter suppression as hard as they try. >> all right. senator ed markey, thank you for making some time tonight. joining me now political reporter alex izenstat, co-wrote the scoop on -- and mariner perez. and alex, let me start with you, adelson has been the single biggest donor. what's the thinking behind the latest set of checks he's writing? >> republicans are facing a brutal midterm environm...

That is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so he's getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. >> alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. you've got the donor class and they're writing the big checks and then the voter suppression fights. georgia right now, there's a lawsuit being filed about these 53,000 upheld registrations. what's going on in georgia right now? >> there's a number of things going on in georgia and georgia voters are getting a raw deal. first, g...

Right. this is a drop in the bucket for sheldon adelson. he typically gives in election cycles around $100 million. what he gets in exchange for that is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so he's getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. >> alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. you've got the donor class and they're writing the big checks and then the voter suppression fights. georgia right now, there's a lawsuit being filed about these 53,000 upheld registrat...

Day. and that's why we have to be totally on alert this year because we have got victory right now that is right in front of us. and our side has to be up, not agonizing, but organizing to make sure that we battle on every single state and every single district to make sure that they cannot, in fact, implement a plan of voter suppression as hard as they try. >> all right. senator ed markey, thank you for making some time tonight. joining me now political reporter alex izenstat, co-wrote the scoop on -- and mariner perez. and alex, let me start with you, adelson has been the single biggest do...