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Time that allowed joe manchin to say, okay, look, let's put voter id and some of these other things on the list and demonstrate that republicans are simply going to stand in the way of this. >> are they drafting a follow-up bill now that will take the portions that need to be taken? you know, we had jon favreau on yesterday he said the biggest problem is not even addressed here which is state legislators being able to overturn the voting inside their own states. are we getting a bill that's going to have the voter id and the purging of the rolls, the gerrymandering reform and the other things ...

Won't touch voter roles. why wouldn't you want to clean up voter roles. not to expel people. people that died, a people that moved. people that relocated, you shouldn't be getting multiple ballots to locations you don't live anymore. that's not purging. and republicans have to do a better job of explaining that. steve: because i heard on the radio morning on network newscast, not this one, describing what the republicans were able to do, they said in the news report essentially the republicans want to continue voter suppression. so that's the mainstream narrative about what happened yesterday....

Filibuster threshold and we can get somewhere on not just voting rights but on infrastructure too. it's interesting how things are panning out at the moment where you get some of the moderate republicans saying we want to legislate. >> imagine how popular it will be if within a couple of weeks of each of these bills passing, you pass a significant infrastructure bill and you pass a voting rights bill. there are going to be a lot of -- >> that's the rub right there. >> that isn't hard for mcconnell to carry on saying no when you have enough republicans saying we want this, we want to bring it t...

Of celebrating that we still have work to do in this nation. until all of us are free, none of us are free. one of the real components of a democracy is people having free and fair access to the ballot. currently in 47 states we're seeing voter suppression laws, just like my home state of georgia, where even yesterday the secretary of state is purging 100,000 reporters from the -- rolls from the state of georgia. we need to make sure we protect the rights of voters in a democracy that is going to set a federal standard which the for the people act does for voting rights. secondly, we need the ...

When they go after states that have discriminated, and so -- and then it allows local officials to do purging in a much more aggressive way, and so it's a problem. i think a lot of people saw it as a start, including stacey abrams, but at the end of the day, does it matter. the gop has shown you who they are. they are saying we don't want to compromise, we don't want your bill. the thing we have to remember is they are the party of states' rights. they don't want the federal government in the business of making sure that voters are protected against state voter suppression laws. >> important c...