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Reauthorized every single republican senator voted for re-authorization. the time before that, strom thurman voted for re-authorization of the voting rights act, which is -- basically we're talking about the pre-clearance provisions that are in the john lewis act. this time we've had no republicans, publicly at least, willing to support that, with one exception, possibly lisa murkowski at least willing to debate it. have you -- are there contacts ongoing? and is there any hope that republicans will join in defending our democracy? >> there's always hope. and certainly as senator mccaskill woul...

He would not support a bill unless he could get some republican votes too. in the spirit of bipartisanship, he wrote letter with republican senator about the importance of both sides coming together for federal voting rights legislation. specifically, the re-authorization of the voting rights act that back in day was like a huge bipartisan thing. not so much anymore. this was joe manchin's grand bargain on voting rights. he said this is too ambitious. we need to work across the aisle. he tempered his own party's sort of big ambitious goals to bring republican senators in the fold. surely thoug...

Had the shelby decision, which really gutted the preclearance provision. it allowed states that had a history of voter discrimination to now be able to institute very restrictive voter i.d. laws, anti-voter laws in my opinion. and so i think that we saw in this past election, over 40 million americans don't believe that we had a fair and accurate election. and so i think that at the heart of this is that american people do not trust their electoral system. i think that john lewis' bill, the john robert lewis voting rights advancement act, hr-4 and soon to be introduced hr-1 will do just that, ...

Back to my hometown in 2015 for the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery march and george and laura bush wanted to be there. why? they were proud that under his tenure they reauthorized the voting rights act of 1965, for 25 years. but for shelby decision and the decision which compromises the vra undermining section 2 and the right to sue for discriminatory effect, these are things that are really bad. and i think american folks understand that. there's nothing more fundamental to our democracy, as you pointed out, bedrock of our democracy is the right to vote. >> is the right to vote. ...

>> one of the key lessons for me and i hope my president and vice president are listening. there are times where the moment demands you put your back into it. right? that when we think about -- i'll go back even further. we think about the revolutionary war. and i'm not, you know, add voluntary caughting violence in any way. but, you know, in defense of democracy and in defense of democracy gave his life. john lewis took bricks to the face on the bridge and cracked had his skull. others have taken arrests. george w. bush took on the most racist elements of his party to make sure that a clean r...