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Difficult and worse, and gutted the va again last june, for some reason none of this is sticking to him. he's not a good guy and he's not our friend. john roberts has been dedicated to gutting the voting rights act since the 1980s, he's a dyed in the wool ronald reagan conservative. he's wanted to do it since law school and he got the chance to do it in 2013. so everyone upset at the state levels where they're trying to make it more difficult for people of color to vote, john roberts is the chief architect that allowed it to happen. in the past those states would have had to get approval befor...

Been seeing at the march so far, the message those that are attending the march want to be heard. >> reporter: right, yasmin, we're wrapping up here, what was a large rally and large march here through the streets of downtown phoenix here. the martin luther king iii, his family was here. congressman gallego was here. i talked to him earlier. potential that he could run against kyrsten sinema who took to the senate floor on thursday, essentially saying she is going to stand by the filibuster. but what you heard today was frustration because there are questions about what republican legislatures...

Democracy, and there are a number of things that can be done. steve bannon, who is not me, has increasing face strategy and advocates should emulate that as much as possible. number two, i think there is an outside litigation strategy. ali, you is talked to mark elias who have had success in this area and they should continue along those lines and it's an important dimension of this. there's a corporate development, perhaps and republicans in state levels are not paying attention, but they might pay attention to big business and the more pressure that they apply in this debate, the better. i d...

Doctor? >> correct. we give them information on all types of services. we know that the pandemic hasn't only affected us physically, our health, but also has affected us emotionally, financially. there's many programs that are being stood up at the county and state levels that we're assisting community members and tapping into, again, because of the language barriers we're helping community members apply for rental assistance, financial assistance. other social services as well. as we know that this pandemic affects a multitude of our daily lives, not just our physical. >> and i'm glad that pe...

Was president and obviously, a lot has changed since then. >> yeah. kaitlan, you laid out some of the initiatives that the president is focusing on. the white house announced. i'm just curious. is there more specifics about what concrete steps the president is going to be laying out or wants to see happen in order to, as the chief's pointing to, strike this very difficult balance? >> well, i think that is the challenge really facing the white house is how do you actually bring these numbers down, how do you make people feel like this is something that the president is listening to, how do you ...