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Ballots. they are the ballots. the arizona republicans used the power they have over the machinery of the state to turn them over to a private company and volunteers. we have seen the republican party wage an assault on democracy. before the election. the aftermath of the election. continuing day by day. new restrictive voting laws introduced in almost every state they control. the aggressive use of partisan gerrymandering to create situations where they can lose state wide and maintain a majority, like georgia. already anti-democratic structures like the filibuster in the senate. and then the...

Observers say there was a free and fair result, these measures would actually allow state legislators, republican legislatures to overturn the results. if it is not there. like a and they are doing everything they can to make sure we are not a democracy. we are an older garlicky, an aristocracy, something. we're not everyone gets to vote. and a white majority is preserved. >> that point about the international part is important. because when this story does a rice, in some country that you follow closely and you're not an expert of. and they say there is an election, it was certified, and thes...

Changing behavior. >> >> no. this is the fork in the road for democrats. the biden agenda, climate future, integrity, democrats use the power that the majority of americans have trusted them with, to repair the country. where they're giving him an already rule and reaction to for the degraded mayor can democracy. it's the fundamental choice year. now, have president obama has jumped into the fray with his thoughts and what democrats need to do about the filibuster, and the repercussions if they do nothing. that's next. that's next.

History. anne-marie, we start with you. as someone who studies this and who's worked in the state department and worked in the international sphere, i wish these sorts of issues arise all the time. contested elections, spews about legitimacy. what do you see happening here? >> i will start by saying if you saw this happening in other countries, as we do, where you have an election and then there is it is certified by all sorts of people. and is clearly free and fair. and then a group decides to try to overturn it, that is a grave threat to democracy in the united and their allies. the liberal,...

Already, we've seen it on our own history? right, this is precisely the thing that happened in the gym crow. south this attract illegitimacy through means both legal an extra legal, that was the way in which jim crew state was constructed. >> that's absolutely right, chris. we had multiracial democracy in the united states and it was taken away. that's what people don't realize. the pattern between the attack on voting rights at the end of reconstruction, and the attack on voting rights today, is so similar it's eerie. you had the enfranchisement of black voters followed by violence, fraud and...