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And swing at this in the next congress next year. a very uphill climb, though, craig. >> indeed. i want to remind our viewers what's inside the two bills that we've been talking about that are under consideration, the john lewis voting rights act updates the voting rights act of 1965, requires cities and states to get preclearance from the voting department before changing laws. then there's the freedom to vote act. it outlaws partisan gerrymandering, protects election workers and implements campaign finance reforms. knowing the expected outcome of both of those bills, how are you feeling and ...

Rights act and look what we have now. nine years ago, the supreme court took direct aim at that act in she belby v. holder and rid of preclearance. i want people to understand. it means that if you change your voting laws and you've got a history of discriminating against black people or other minorities, you have to submit those changes to the justice department or to a federal court and explain why they are not discriminatory. and if they're not discr discriminatory, then you go ahead and do it. so that's what we're doing here. we know the history of alabama. we know the history of georgia, ...

Have to protect these rights whether it's codifying roe or codifying the national floor of voting rights or restoring their preclearance is ability to pass legislation through the congress. but in the congress they now have to reach this super majority in the senate, which that gives a veto to the same red states. so what we're seeing i think is kind of a pincer movement from several directions, which is driven by the uniform as you point out resistance of senate republicans but fundamentally enabled by manchin and sinema with their eyes wide open. i mean, they can have no illusions about what...

Who else can administration or democrats do? >> there are limited options. as laura pointed out, this sup presume court undermined the federal votes rights act twice in terms of rolling back the preclearance provision and more recently by weakening section two that's the basis of the legal challenges of the justice department is filing against some state laws lake georgia and texas. very unlikely to yousucceed. it is difficult to change the political balance of power in the states in part because the supreme court in another decision in 2019 essentially said that federal courts could impose no...

Of those workers. make interfeing with voter registration a federal crime, enhance transparency and create a federal obligations for campaigns to report instances of foreign interference. can you imagine that is what the republicans and those two moderate senators are actually blocking? as for the john lewis voting rights advancement act, the bill would reverse the 2013 supreme court decision that struck out portions of the voting rights act of 1965 that require certain states and cities to obtain preclearance from the justice department before changing laws about their voting processes, updat...