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Than hr-1. at what point do you think the focus should be about getting hr-4 done? it does seem to unite the party a bit more and possibly get some republican support. hr-1 has divides inside even the democratic party. your thoughts? >> we will fight to keep both hr-1 and hr-4 through. you're correct hr-4 has more support and senator manchin appears to support an even more expansive hr-4, which would provide preclearance to all 50 states, not just a secretary number of states. i also don't want the american to be to be dispirited about what's happening. even though you have these state laws be...

Which would restore the federal preclearance requirements, john roberts in the conservatives on the supreme court, ripped into shreds for no reason. he wrote the john lewis voting rights act would update the formula states and localities must use to ensure proposed -- to restrict the rights of -- as we reported here in the program senator manchin and republican senator elites and mccarthy wrote this dear colleague letter calling for the same thing, right? we've got to do this. in terms of democratic triage, having the department of justice once again involved in pre-clearing states, gerrymande...

Rights act. he also made clear that he will not support abolishing the filibuster. the senator appeared on fox news to explain his objection to the for the people act. >> i think it's the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together. they're not supporting that because i think it would devise further. >> so what's the difference between the two bills? we'll take a look. we've broken down into some bullet points for you. for the people act is pretty wide ranging. it would ban partition gerrymandering and standardized voting procedures across the country. the john lewis voting rights...

>> this morning joe manchin made news on election reform that could mean the end of an voting rights bill. senator manchin wrote that he'll vote against the for the people act. however, he added that he does support the john lewis voting rights act. he also made clear he'll not support abolishing the filibuster. the senator appeared on fox news to explain his objection to the for the people act. >> i think it's wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together. i think it would divide us further. >> what is the difference? take a look. we broke it down into bullet points for you. the fo...

Receive preclearance before making changes, but it wouldn't do anything to help us with states like florida and georgia that have already made changes and wouldn't increase access to the ballot the way he's proposing they would do. >> he's talking about the fight over voting rights and we're seeing legislators enacting bills that will make it harder for voters to vote. he's essentially saying this is a normal partisan battle between democrats and republicans looking for an advantage. >> and it's absolutely not that. it certainly is in the sense that the people pushing voter suppression legisla...