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Financing of elections which democrats know that republicans were never going to vote for. so it was quite broad. what joe manchin came up with was something that was a little narrower. republicans will no doubt vote against that as well. and then you get to the question of the filibuster and what are democrats going to do about that, what will joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema do about it? >> there is a piece to voting rights legislation that isn't a part of this bill, which is the john lewis voting rights act. you notice the democrats haven't moved forward with that yet. i think they're...

The obamacare case overshadowed the term. >> so people know what that is, melissa, sorry, you were getting there but we have a graphic, too, the question to the court in that particular case is what is the standard that courts ought to use deciding whether a change in election procedures violates the voting rights act. that is the critical one. >> it concerns section two, the remaining sections with teeth of that landmark civil rights litigation since 2013 when the supreme court gutted the preclearance for teachers of the voting rights act making it hard are for individuals to have voting righ...

Very sorry for the colleagues that helped to bring the mob here. but i still don't see in mitch mcconnell's republican senate the opportunity to be able to work in a meaningful way to reform, to protect americans' right to vote. i regret that deeply. but when you look, for example, at the way people here on the republican side of the aisle have completely shifted after shelby on the issues around preclearance of elections, just to take that is a major stumbling block for the american democracy. i think it would be irresponsible of me to stand here and give you a lot of hope that we're going to...

Voting rights act that said that states that wanted to put in new laws that might restrict voting would have to get preclearance to do that from the justice department. now of course the john lewis voting rights act would try to bring that back but voting rights activists feeling heartened by the attorney general will be hiring more trial attorneys to pursue this as well as looking into things like why it is in america that black voters tend to wait longer to cast ballots than white voters. >> thank you, josh. that is nbc's josh lederman reporting from austin. an update now to the story that...

Voting and guarantee early voting, require automatic voter registration. these are the things that are actually going to add people to the rolls and allow people to be able to vote more comfortably with more opportunity through early voting and absentee voting so they can't undercut the ability for people to participant in the process. so we need both of these. we certainly need the elements of both of these. if they want to mash them together in something else, that's a whole other story. but we can't leave them on the table. so we need both. the john lewis voting rights advancement act is st...