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States, 36 cases in 19 states. so give us a sense of where things stand now. >> well, look, where things stand is that unfortunately we have had the transformation of the big lie into now legislation and actions by republican state legislatures throughout the country. so the reason why we need to be litigating in 19 states, 36 cases is because in state after state after state rather than competing on a level playing field, rather than competing on a playing field of ideas, republicans are trying to rig the election processes and rules to gain an advantage in the rule book that they can't gain ...

We have breaking news now, the former president barack obama calling on senators to, quote, do the right thing and pass voting rights legislation that's right now stuck in limbo. in an op-ed in usa today reminding republicans that protecting voting rights was always a bipartisan issue. we talked about it in the beginning of the show. and calling on democrats to change the filibuster rules and pass the legislation by a simple majority if republicans refuse to support the bills. joining me now, mark alias, a democratic voting rights attorney. he's on the front lines in the battle to protect voti...

Do you wish that he would have spoken publicly on the knead to change the filibuster sooner? >> i think that the president and the white house had been engaged in this as the president said, he was engaged behind the scenes where oftentimes the most effective presidents are behind the scenes, but then, look, he spoke out loudly and forcefully first on january 6th, and then he and the vice president spoke out loudly in atlanta earlier this week, and the good news is we're going to see those two bills merged into one move from the house of representatives to the floor of the senate in the next f...

We have breaking news now, the former president barack obama calling on senators to, quote, do the right thing and pass voting rights legislation that's right now stuck in limbo. in an op-ed in usa today reminding republicans that protecting voting rights was always a bipartisan issue. we talked about it in the beginning of the show. and calling on democrats to change the filibuster rules and pass the legislation by a simple majority if republicans refuse to support the bills. joining me now, mark alias, a democratic voting rights attorney. he's on the front lines in the battle to protect voti...

This polling. this is a pretty stunning turn around. we'll see if it holds up come tuesday. likely to be a slugfest tuesday evening. both sides have started lawyering up. the mcauliffe campaign hired the first of mark alias. he's the attorney behind the 2020 election law fight. his attorney was involved in the hiring of the group that did the steele dossier. a lot of background here with the story. fox news producers reached out to the mcauliffe campaign to get a comment about the hiring of mark elias and what that might mean. they got an e-mail back from the spokesperson saying, can we try to...