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Designed to prevent or limit a woman's access to reproductive healthcare, that those laws have to come before my department of justice for a review and approval and until we determine that they are constitutional, they will not take effect. >> there's no federal preclearance for these laws, but she was applauded anyway. the question really is, have democrats overpromised and now are losing credibility here where they say, give us the levers of power and we will take care of voting rights, of gun safety, of a woman's right to choose? >> well, i mean, i think there's an argument to be made that,...

That russia would go into a medical center and now a school with so many people every day losing their lives, i think that it gives them hope anchorage that we're standing with them, i think this week will see more aid going, more sanctions because this is justin thank-able. i'm pleased that dr. biden was there. >> congresswoman, what other concerns you want to see president biden addressed by executive order if need be before november, i'm thinking about voting rights as well as reform? >> well, let me tell you that voting rights is at the top of the list, we have still been looking in the co...

Deeply unsettling. and we are now at a point in the discourse of this country where we are back to simply saying that republicans are simply saying that we don't think black voters should have these rights. >> so, joyce, this comes to the essence of the gutting of the voting rights act. that's why we're here. the gathering of the voting rights act said that the federal government, all of a sudden, you don't have to go through preclearance with many of these maps. and, as a result, it is creating this lopsided view of who should have access to the voting booth and who should be gerrymandered or...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why y...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why y...