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Lewis bill, and we have to do something about h.r. 1. we're working on it. by the way, you know that senator manchin has said that he supports the john lewis bill, which was the pre-clearance, but it may be dealing with the second provision, article 2, section 2, because of the fact that the supreme court is making that decision now. >> so, you know, it's interesting to hear that you're so confident that you're going to get this done. seems as if you're hard to make sure that happens. that being sound, i just played some sound of senator mitch mcconnell essentially proclaiming that he feels as...

The ballot box so i'm not worried about the counting procedures because we have lawyer to handle things like that where there's not integrity and shenanigans on the counting process and critical to restore preclearance on the front end and crucial that you really thwart a lot of ballot box con frictions on who decides who gets to vote because it is very difficult to throw out votes when they have been properly cast and very difficult to mess around on the counting process but that's what brian kemp did in stealing the election from stacey abrams in georgia. >> both gentlemen bringing the heat ...

The shenanigans on the state level or legislative level meaning any substantive procedural change on the state, local, county level have to be cleared by the department of justice. deval patrick led that process. now kristen clark would lead the process if it were restored under section 5 so we have to recognize the interplay of federal legislation and if joe manchin is on board for nothing else has to be on board for the preclearance. before states enact a lot of shenanigans on the county and arizona audit type stuff you have to restrict the ability. before you can get to the count you have t...

Voting rights act in the preclearance notions. states can't do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the department of justice. that means any substantive procedural change to voting procedures on the state local county municipal level would have to be cleared by the department of justice. my mentor and good friend deval patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil rights division of the department of justice firmly let the preclearance process. no kristen clark leads it. if it were restart under section...

Version of the voter suppression bill with a few compromises that no one was asking for. the point of why we're going through all of this is because the supreme court stripped pre-clearance away. voter i.d. disenfranchises people. whether it's a national voter i.d. or some form of voter i.d. is terrible to do. you are saying, we are going to compromise with a few people, we don't know how many, some people. we are okay with disenfran disenfranchising some people. i don't see how anyone could feel comfortable slapping john lewis' name on a bill that disenfranchises voters.