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Worry around the coronavirus pandemic builds. his coronavirus advisers were grilled on capitol hill today. instead the president choosing to focus on an issue he hopes unite and invigorate his political base. at least right now the votes aren't there. and progressives are skeptical. in fact, one of the leading progressive adds vo cats for voting changes who happens to be from georgia, snubbed the president, electing not to show up in atlanta today white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening,. >> peter: peter good evening, bret. the preside...

All but one refusing to vote in favor of the two pieces of legislation now folded together. i think politically speaking, republicans have decided with 50 votes, they can just hang together on this and not let any one of those lawmakers you mentioned get hung on out a branch. be out on a limit on their own. they are all sort of in this together in their opposition to any of these voting changes sort of lining up behind this idea that they're going to leave everything to the states and kind of wash their hands of it. they have made that decision collectively and it's brought them to this point ...

You point out this will affect potentially more than alabama is this -- the voting rights act was trimmed back in 2013. states no longer have to go to justice department or a federal court in advance, so the way people challenge voting changes and say they're discriminatory toward minority voters, they have to wait till the state does what it does and then sue. what's left is what's left of the voting rights act. senators say it's an ominous sign that the supreme court has agreed to hear this case. lit probably be in the fall. what that means is the single district plan, the current map in ala...

Democracy. in addition, it's about what we need to do with the climate crisis. todd: you should expect to hear this democracy is in crisis narrative from not just the white house but all democrats between now and the midterms. it's how they think they make the case for voting changes. that is code for wanting to change the rules to benefit democrats in perpetuity. there's another line that is extremely concerning, talking about how our foreign and domestic policy was guided and prioritized based on september 11th. what i read into that, carley, is a notion that we are going to take our foot of...

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