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Trump's testimony to the january six committee, a new wave of witnesses coming forward and the capitol riot investigation. stop the steal organizer alexander says he's now cooperating with the justice department. alexander has ties to roger stone, and at least three far-right congressman. and leader of the proud boys has agreed to take the stand against other extremists. north carolina man is feeding guilty to a felony conspiracy, and for assaulting police officers during the capitol riot. all this as the guardian reports the proud boys and oath keepers likely plotted to attack congress. accor...

Texas, or the latinx is voting in a state like arizona. and so all of this stuff is coinciding with these demographic shifts, and demographics are not destiny in terms of democrats winning elections because they attract those voters if those voters do not have access to the ballot box. those voters gave the democrats the majority in the senate. it would be a real shame for those democrats to turn around and not protect ballot access for those same communities. >> none of the voting rights bills that have been considered by the congress include any provisions about how the votes are counted, wh...

Insurrection, it pointedly said it's no part of any federal employee's job to do any of those things. that inciting an unruly, partly armed, and violent mob to kick ass and to take names and to interfere with an official function of congress is well beyond the sphere of any federal employee's official duties and is therefore not immune from liability, especially under the so-called ku klux klan act, which is part of this lawsuit. an act passed way back in the 1860s that has two important parts. one part says that if you work with other people to interfere with the performance of the government...

We tried to work with our counterparts, but every amendment that we presenteds with declined. >> joining us now, zerlina maxwell and john heilemann is back with us. zerlina, as soon as the infrastructure bill seems to be firmly on track, the president is turning to voting rights. >> well, i think that senator warnock is right when he says that voting rights is the most important thing this congress can do. and while all of these other issues are incredibly important, our access to the ballot box to be able to shape the policies that we would like to see as voters, that's essential. you know, y...

Plan that is a compromise itself in the senate. they're going to have to make some adjustments. but when i look at this team, the one that john was talking about, even the white house team, gene sperling, louisa terrell, the liaison with congress, pete buttigieg working hand in glove with those senators and making the outreach to the house progressives as well. i'm very confident they're going to pull something important together and get the votes for it. and pelosi is the one who can get all of those house progressives to go along and there's steve risch etty, who has been doing this work for...