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Votes in allegheny county. chris: what about the courts and the trump appointed judges including the supreme court that has a 6-3 conservative majority. they threw you out of court. >> it's not the court's decision or obligation to ensure that dead people aren't voting. that's a legislative responsibility. and look, chris, in my hometown in new hampshire, you know this, the listeners know this, we had voting irregularitieses from what the voting machines reported on election day to what the actual count was and the reason we know that is because the democrat state representative who lost that ...

Happen. voting is the bed rock of our democracy. and open, fair, secured voting. we used to go around the world and show and explain and observe of voting procedures in a democracy and now if we can't practice what we preach and we're going to basically do an overhaul, an 800 page overhaul of the voting rights or what we call for the people act, i think there's a lot of great thing i agree in that piece of legislation but there's an awful lot of things that basically don't pertain directly to voting. so the voting rights act -- chris: let me just -- >> sure. chris: just to put a button on this...

You're the only democrat in the senate who has not supported s-1, the so-called for the people act, which would be a major voting reform bill. you say it's too brood and too partisan. instead, you support basically a renewal of the 1965 voting rights act which says that the feds get free clearance on any voting right changes in individual states. you would like it to apply to all 50 of states, not just the states in the south that had a history of segregation. couple of questions. one, is chuck schumer making a mistake in pushing this big bill, the for the people act, and saying that he wants ...

Energy granholm reiterated this morning that house democrats are going to start their markup of the bill with or without republicans and if there is no compromise on infrastructure, and i think it's fair to say maybe not enough, but that joe biden has made some big concessions both on spending and different tax plan, if it were to go in the senate as a straight party line vote, through budget reconciliation, will you support that kind of bill? in other words, i guess what i'm asking is, is a straight party line infrastructure bill better than no bill at all? >> i think i still have all the con...

Votes in allegheny county. chris: what about the courts and the trump appointed judges including the supreme court that has a 6-3 conservative majority. they threw you out of court. >> it's not the court's decision or obligation to ensure that dead people aren't voting. that's a legislative responsibility. and look, chris, in my hometown in new hampshire, you know this, the listeners know this, we had voting irregularitieses from what the voting machines reported on election day to what the actual count was and the reason we know that is because the democrat state representative who lost that ...