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Much yamiche, stay with me. we've got to cover the other big news we're watching on capitol hill. president biden all but confirmed that democrats are not likely to pass his human infrastructure bill, build back better, this year. and now the senate's in-house referee, the parliamentarian, just threw cold water on their hopes to get immigration reform into that bill. now democrats are focusing on voting rights, with biden and vice president harris holding a zoom call with senators about it yesterday. keep in mind, none of their spending priorities matter if we don't have a functioning democrac...

Issues? if we don't have a functioning democracy, nothing else even matters. >> you need to convince the leaders of the country, convince the people in the senate. look, i represent a working class district. i'm from a working class state in ohio. people, unfortunately, don't have the luxury to sit around and have a conversation about voting rights. they're too busy getting up, going to work, trying to pay the bills. you have inflation. more of a squeeze there. and they're scrapping. they're fighting. they're grinding. they're just trying to make ends meet, trying to find a few extra bucks to ...

And here on this monday it is literally five weeks until the georgia legislature, the arizona legislature, and so many other state legislators come back into session and they have plans to do more voter fraud conspiracy legislation around fraud and kind of bad maga faction ideas. congress needs to act. this is not a partisan issue. this is about our democracy. we need the freedom to vote act, the john lewis voting rights advancement act passed by this congress as soon as possible. six weeks from today more state go seven weeks, we are about a month out from these legislatures reconvening and s...

Faction ideas. this is not about that issue, we need the freedom to vote act, we need this passed by the congress as soon as possible. in six weeks, from today. more states are reconvening and we still have not had congressional action. voters, they demand their democracy function. so we are not going to let them break the game. yes, you are correct, all these bills are passing, and they're going to come back and pass more. so we are going to keep fighting those bills. but this is clear, congress must act. we must have a functioning democracy. and to your question on campaign strategy, we, fro...

Undermine fair elections. so you make it harder to vote, then you make it so that there is no attached vote for. because so many of the election results are predetermine, competitive seats were taken off the table. but it looks like it sets in states where that are basically 50/50, they're drawing maps to give republicans 60% of seats, 70% of seats, in some cases 80% of seats. and they're also taking almost all of the competitive races off the table. so once republicans take power, once they retake the house to gerrymandering, when they lacking control the state legislatures, it's going to be ...