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>> it's what i have been saying for the last four years and what i will continue to say until we have a voting rights law that actually protects the voters of america. and that is that voter suppression is baked into the dna of our election system. but so is the persistence that we see from voters who are willing to fight against that very -- the ignim ate. we see voters who are turning out and pushing forward despite the obstacles and the false equivalence that says that what happened on january 6th and the conversation about voter suppression are of a piece is completely absurd. we know that...

In 490 BCE, the free, native-born, adult, male Athenians did something utterly extraordinary: They voted to elect officers and magistrates

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I think ralph warnock going on the floor and saying wait a second you can just brush aside this filibuster, his holding up the pillars of american democracy when you want to raise the debt but you can't do it to protect voting rights? that's just an argument too compelling to ignore. >> it was a moving speech from a pastor who talked about a crisis in front of us of the foundation of democracy in the build back better bill. >> to stand and deliver? >> amen. >> comes in the tradition of john lewis presiding over john lewis and did what john lewis

Blah -- that's fine. we can just do a legislative hand like they did with raising the debt ceiling. does sinema say oh, we can't -- she's okay doing it raising the debt ceiling making it a simple majority. there is a million and one way for smart legislatures to get together to figure out how to move that 60 requirements. you know how i know that? they just did. they can do it for democracy but they can do it. >> it's good to get reverend warnock and sinema in a room together for a little bit to see if they can have that conversation. >> they have been dreading the battle because they see the ...