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In 48 states with provisions that to one degree or another restrict voting access, many disproportionately targeting voters of color. remember, here is the hypocrisy, the people behind -- yes, those lawmakers who voted against hr-1 and sr-1, they now want you to believe it is fraudulent. a third of you believed in this u.s. that they have been selling it. now they'll point to the polls that people think there is fraud, we should address it. you toll them there was fraud. lies. eve even mcconnell gets what this is about. >> what a way to show your disdain for the american people choices. >> he'...

Defending their own sr-1 or the voting bill. they are attacking republicans because they know that they can't stand on the merits of this bill. and i do love what we were talking about in the last segment, but i do love how democrats have evolved and softened their positions, in the words of the media but republicans cave and flip-flop. that's how they frame it. that's the verbs that they use. richard, the honest elections project, they did a poll on this bill and it turns out only 29% of the people actually have any idea what's in it. >> listen, people don't read bills. [laughter] >> but i do...

Democrats to figure out what the heck their strategy's going to be. do they pull out pieces of sr-1 and put pieces before the senate going forward? do they take what manchin put on the table in whole cloth and work that on the back end after this fails? that's what the next test is about and we'll see how well the democrats meet that test. >> donna edwards, michael steele put it in a more elegant way. let me be a little more blunt as i tend to do. joe manchin put voter id requirement in there, something republicans have wanted since back when i was a republican, six decades. that is in there. ...

Substance of s-1, you know, sr-1, but can we have the debate? that's all the country's saying. that's what the letter you showed at the top of the segment is all about. can we at least have the debate? and for republicans, i would think, hey, this is a good opportunity for us to give our view on why certain provisions in this aren't suitable for the moment, are not right for democracy, et cetera. make your case for what kind of voting experience you would like voters to have, right? and to the extent democrats have in crafting, joe manchin in particular, crafting legislation that accommodates ...

For a senate leadership member, member of the senate leadership, who says infrastructure is going to happen one way or the other. obviously that leaves the door open for reconciliation. that's what leadership is saying. but again, you have the narrow margin areas. can you get reconciliation to fly in those handful of house districts where you have embattled members with senator sinema, senator manchin, a tougher fight there, so the door is open, just a matter of whether somebody is going to slam it shut. >> glad you mentioned senator joe manchin of west virginia. he has become arguably the mos...