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Know, prospect of astroid wiping out life on earth used to be same likelihood in my mind as the prospect that somebody wouldn't really count the electoral votes and instead we'd get a president that somebody just forced through. they seemed equally improbable. we are working on the one that should be more difficult. but i feel hope there are so many republican co-sponsors on this effort to fix this particular problem in our elections. >> there was an effort that the senate with a bipartisan group of senators led by senator collins and manchin, head of the rules committee advised them throughou...

Committee, led by -- or this group of senators led by chris murphy is something to applaud. but the level of relief with the accomplishment that they came up with over the weekend has to be combined with a level of frustration that is just endemic in the united states senate. we just heard chris coons say that the urgency is now. the urgency is now is defined as getting this bill through the united states senate as written at the end of july. that's five weeks from now. so far, it's the 13th of june. there has been, by definition, a mass shooting every single day of june thus far, with the exc...

Subjugation, it's also a look back into a dark time our country's past, and, unfortunately, it's newly relevant again with the looming supreme court decision that almost certainly will overturn "roe v. wade." congress could act to codify roe into law but there's no chance of that happening right now. in fact, senate republicans have previewed their plan to enact a national abortion ban if they take over after the november elections. a group of senators led by senator elizabeth warren and patty murray are asking president biden to act now. in a letter today they wrote women across the country a...

Disappointing came out this week, we saw some extreme opinions being floated by the right. as we told you before they break senior minority leader mitch mcconnell said the national ban on abortion is possible. yesterday we discuss the louisiana bill that way classify abortion as homicide. let's be clear. this kind of extremism goes way beyond the abortion debate. in fact right now it seems to be a race to the bottom. by states governed by gop majorities. four republican senators led by kansas as robert marshall wanted tv ratings to warn parents about any lgbtq representation in shows. so that ...

Tried with the electoral count act with the idea that the vice president could throw out the votes of states, if they were impeded slates of electors. so, one thing to make clear is that the vice president does not have that authority. of course, the whole [inaudible] that -- was trying to overturn the election. and if that was not even on the table, if that wasn't the idea in his head, that crowd may not have been there. or at least may not have had that talking point to go and -- mike pence. there are some other changes as well, about objections that make it much more difficult for single me...