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This later and punt it down the road. we have been in enough discussions for enough months that we all know what the stakes are. every democrat is a supporter of both the john lewis bill and the freedom to vote act. so there's uniformity there. so far when we put these bills up, we get zero republican help except for lisa murkowski on the lewis act. with the stakes so high right now after the attack on the capitol to disenfranchise 80 million people and after the effort of state legislatures to disenfranchise people, democrats have to fight to protect people's right to vote and the accuracy of...

A closer look at services like amazon to alexa smart speakers that may be listening to your every word. i'm calling assman thanks for joining us sudan's military chief has stepped down just one day after he was sworn in as the country's new leader that's after pro-democracy demonstrators again flooded khartoum streets in rejection of the new military regime or test leaders oppose the military's stated plan to rule the country for two years before calling elections. i what even made his announcement on state t.v. a day after ousting president omar al bashir the defense minister is stepping down...

Participation. the other thing, chuck, that's really interesting about it. if you want your opponent's 2nd place votes, it tends to make you more civil. you don't want to dump on your opponent with negative ads because you want their voters to give you the 2nd place. that's a kind of hidden benefit that we will watch play out over the next ten years. >> one more hidden benefit. if we do extrapolate this out to our presidential campaigns all over the country, it will make exit polls useless for calling elections, which is a good thing. instead, exit polls will be actually used for what they sho...

Sweeping a sea of blue at the time. >> well, let's not forget he was also a two-term governor of california. ronald reagan, recall that night, that was the beginning of a new form of calling elections because we had such great exit polls that we could make the call because whatever happened west of the mississippi river was not going to change the results that night. ronald reagan was being elected in a landslide that night, and it was a stunning moment. on the senate side, great lines. >> gaylord nelson. it was an enormously important moment in american politics, and, again, that was a time w...

Ignatius, andrea mitchel. it's great to have you with us. >> tom brokaw, so much history in this room, but i remember being a high school senior watching you in this studio at 8:15 p.m. calling what i would say was the second most shocking call in modern american history. and that was that a former b-list actor had just shocked the world and was sweeping a saw of blue. >> he was also a two-term governor. that was the beginning of a new form of calling elections. we had such great exit polls that we could make the call because whatever happened west of the mississippi river was not going to cha...