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Cheers, michael. Welcome back to the weekend, everyone. Election day is 66 weeks i gave early voting kicks off in pennsylvania in just 16 days. To win, vice president kamala harris knows democrats need to grow their coalition and part of that means reaching out to conservative leaning voters. In her first major interview as a democratic nominee, she promised to welcome republican voices to her administration if she wins in november. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it is important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. I think it would be to the benefit of the american public to have a member of my cabinet who was a republican. Joining us now is olivia troye, former homeland security and terrorism adviser to mike pence. When i heard that i was like, that michael steele for commerce secretary. I could put on a tie. I would be happy to do that. It would be an honor ....
Brownstein. good evening, gentlemen. we have a lot to talk about. so we re hearing, ron, that the house speaker nancy pelosi is going to appoint this select committee to investigate january 6th. this news coming just moments after republicans blocked that sweeping voting rights bill. on so many levels, we re witnessing a struggle for truth and democracy in this country. how do you think this is going to play out? yeah. look, you re right. this is all part of the same struggle, and it is certainly the greatest struggle over the fundamental tenets of american democracy since at least the jim crow era and possibly since the civil war. you see that the vast majority of the republican party both in the states and in washington are operationalizing trump s, you know, discredited claims of fraud in 2020 and moving forward with an incredibly aggressive voter suppression agenda that they are passing, don, importantly on a party line basis in state after state. and in washington they are locki ....
Election and investigate russians and help us prepare for 2018 and beyond. number two, help states invest in new voting equipment both more secure and improves the experience for voters in america. and they should also maintain the eac, election assistance commission charged with security standards for voting systems in the country and making the recommendations of best practices of conducting elections and finally restore the full strength of the federal voting rights act because the supreme court decision from a few years ago would undermine the federal voting rights act. that s what unleashed the voter i.d. proposal as and purging of voter rolls and early voting opportunities. the voter suppression agenda this commission wants to advance. in a few hours we re going to hear exactly what the outcome is of the very first meeting. thanks for joining us. i appreciate it. any second now, president trump will be speaking at that election integrity commission meeting. you know how much ....