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Legislative bodies that enacted regressive laws like in georgia. you're going to have a lot of voters harmed because of what they've just done in georgia and in several other states. so we have to address the harm that has been implemented in state policy over the last two months as well as address issues around redistricting, how we make sure we get lines that are not so heavy polarized that we won't recognize congress in the next session. and we must also put in place measures to prevent jurisdictions from trying to suppress votes moving forward. >> i'm with you, 100%. the john lewis act is ...

New york, if you're in d.c., which i hope will work on a state, which is a hold of the conversation. no mother where you live your right to vote should be standardize and that is what my focus is right now with hr4, the for the people act. when we get hr4 the john lewis voting rights act added on to that, that only gives us the preclearance so that we can look at when laws are being enacted in the future, having preclearance so that voter suppression like georgia will have to go through the department of justice to make sure that they are not doing things that will impair someone's access to t...

Creating they needed to go back to the drawing board and needed to do it before joe manchin was the center of this debate. >> jason johnson, your signal is back. enough so that i see you shaking your head no. >> yeah. look. let's be honest and not pretend that manchin's opposition is based on a deep concern about what's actually the content of either piece of legislation. he was an original co-sponsor of the for the people act and going back on something he co-sponsored. john lewis act establishes a return of some variation of preclearance which would stop what happened in georgia and provide ...

>> let's be honest, let's not pretend that joe mentions opposition is based on some deep philosophical concerned about what is actually the content of either piece of legislation. remember he was and regional co-sponsor of the for the people act, he is going back on something that he cosponsored. he says that he is perfectly okay with the john lewis civil rights act, and that is the one that pretty much establishes a return of some variation of preclearance which would stop what happened in georgia, which would provide ways for the federal government to get involved. joe manchin doesn't care a...

You know, corporate money has a very, very tight grip on both parties. and i think that that has, has to do with the calculus in the situation that people aren't really discussing enough. >> yeah. it's a very good point. i mean, bracket for a second my own feeling about like, what the roberts court would do with the dark money provisions of hr-1, a road, a bridge to cross in the future, but it's striking to me. i want your reaction to this. in some ways, right, mcconnell hates that part. republicans hate, hate, hate the dark money part. hate, hate, hate it. mcconnell is, dark money number one ...