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Travel with the president to ohio right now. let's talk about state of the infrastructure negotiations. we hear republicans are going to come back with a counteroffer today. where is this headed? >> willie, thankfully i've got tsa pre-check for air force one. yeah, today is a critical day for the ongoing infrastructure talks. the republicans -- the group of senators led by senator capito are going to present just after 9:00 today their counteroffer. we've had a few weeks of going back and forth between the white house and republicans. the white house have been frustrated and the republicans ha...

People from voting. >> let's bring in steve osunsami, joining us from atlanta. steve, georgia's not alone here. states across the country are trying to tighten voting laws. >> reporter: that's right. there are republicans in dozens of statehouses across the country who are working on similar measures. and let's talk about politics for a second. most of these measures are aimed at the early vote and the mail-in vote. when you look at this state, which broke heavily for democrats in november and january. whit? >> this debate only heating up across the country. steve, thank you. now to the bord...

Republicans started shifting from the democratic party -- to the democratic party simply because the democrats back then, the party of racism, wanted to keep segregation in place and so the only choice that those democrats had were to leave the republican party and first they tried to become what they called dixie crats. that didn't work. and that is how the democrats back then became the republicans of today. and so they were always the party of racism. and back then, there was a group of senators led by senator stevens who really wanted to give blacks the right to vote and all of their right...

Senator talks about is right now. taipei's message is clear, what happens here, what happens to this democracy could happen to others. >> translator: if it's taiwan today, people should ask who's next. any country in the region, if it no longer wants to submit to the will of china, they will face similar military threats. >> we know that some u.s. lawmakers want to hear from tsai ing-wen in person in washington. a group of republican senators led by corey gardener of colorado, marco rubio of florida and others have actually formally asked speaker of the house nancy pelosi to formally invite ts...

Challenge for this century for the u.s. for taiwan, the future the senator talks about is right now. and taipei's message is clear, what happens here, what happens to this democracy could happen to others. >> translator: if it's taiwan today, people should ask who's next? any country in the region, if it no longer wants to submit to the will of china, they will face similar military threats. >> reporter: and we know that some law makers in the u.s. want to hear from her in person in washington. a group of senators led by marco rubio and corey gardner among others have asked speaker of the hous...