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Field running to put an end to the chaos. vivrek is one of them and joins us now. welcome. >> good to see you. how are you? >> good to see you. i'm doing well well you have an ambitious plan. i know how you feel about biden so let's put that aside. you have an ambitious plan. you want to raise the voting age to 25 with a few exceptions being in the military and being a first responder and passing a test, the same an immigrant would pass. that would mean changing the constitution, the 26th amendment. that's a tall order. how would you do that? >> yeah. so i'm here in iowa on the campaign trail....

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Or at least six months of first responder service. this is not an unfamiliar notion. two things about this. in 1971 when we lowered the voting age to 18 in the first place, that was in the context of actually the military draft. that was the whole justification in the first place for making the voting age 18 at all. and then in addition to that, we already have selective serviceman dated. people forget this in the u.s., for adult men between 18 and 25. that exists today. so i'm building an already familiar instinct based into our history and even the current law to say how are we going to reso...

The outcome i would like to see -- >> i'll try. i'd like at a minimum to go back to where we were a year or 14 months a ago. putin ought to get out of wherever he wasn't. >> that would be a great outcome. >> let me move on. so you have proposed raising the voting age from 18 to 25 for those unless they engage in service or can pass a civics examination. you were a guest of mine on sirius xm. my callers said why is he targeting the youth when a lot of older americans could not pass the naturalization exam. >> so i think it's best to start fresh with the next generation of americans. so the cons...

Civics tests required of sit yens or perform military service or first respond service or police. this is not an unfamiliar notion. i'll tell you two things about this. in 1971 when we lowered the voting age to 18 in the first place, that was in the context of actually the military draft. that was the whole justification in the first place for making the voting age 18 at all. and then in addition, we already have selective service mandated for adult men between the ages of 18 and 25. that exists today, every adult male has to do it already. so i'm building on already familiar intuitions, insti...