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Challenge. and i just think that she's got to start making, i guess, a more effective, affirmative case for what she's trying to do. and i think she's been doing it really since the first speech that she made in oakland when she launched her campaign in january. >> early in los angeles, we're especially grateful for you getting up early. jamil smith of "rolling stone" joining us this morning. it's a great piece worth reading. new polling suggests the democratic debates did little to shake up the field of candidates. where the 2020 contenders stand and where the party stands next. and where the...

Jennifer palmieri, let's talk about personal history. kamala harris going against joe biden on his personal history, his political history. now hers is in the open and being looked at in this way. how -- what's your prescription for how she should talk about that or how she should have voters -- how she should demonstrate to voters why she did what she did and what that represents about who she might be as president. >> first of all, jamil's piece, the "rolling stone" piece is terrific, it's a really thoughtful profile and does contextualize all of what she did. i thought that, first of all, g...

And that is ironic. we're at a moment where november elections brought out voters that were frankly really annoyed and fed up with the corruption in the political system and voting for democracy reform up and down and we have h.r. 1 in congress seeking to end all of these lies and that's where i think the american public needs to be. this kind of scandal i think really, the crickets we're hearing from the crowd that has been peddling lies is fairly telling. >> jamil, what do you think? >> i think that she's right. we see here evidence of what actual voter fraud looks like, what ballot fraud lo...

Franchise. we saw massive voter suppression tactics just in the most recent election. this stuff is not from the 1960s and '70s. we're seeing it play out and undermining faith in the democracy and that's why we need to pass these major reforms that we're seeing passed in states around the country, we need to do it federally. >> jamil, an ironic details of this is the fact so much powe c -- focus has gone into voter i.d. to stop what they say is some, you know, vast amount of in person fraud. in this case, that essentially doesn't exist. the one place there might be vulnerabilities is absentee ...

President and ceo of the leadership conference and civil and human rights and jamil smith. play out the thought experiment. what would we be looking at if there was a democratic congressional candidate that engaged in what appears to be illegal criminal ballot, you know, ballot fraud. >> i mean, there would be no question that we would have seen about, you know, 20 tweets from the president and the whole package of folks with the lies for so long really to advance policies aimed at shrinking the electret and preventing folks of color mainly from exercising the franchise. this would be a massiv...