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Address in this congress, and we did so through the american rescue plan, through the infrastructure work that's happening right now. the most important thing we can do right now is to pass voting rights, to secure the future of our democracy. if we fail to do that i think we would have failed to rise in a defining moment in our american democracy, which is why in june when the republicans blocked our ability to have a debate -- and i think it's important for your viewers to know that's what got blocked in june. our ability to have a voting rights just months after an attempt on the capitol af...

Substantive and forward looking to try to kind of take the heat off this issue or at least to sap it of some of its ongoing destructive power. after republican senators in june blocked the big voting rights bill called the for the people act, these nine senators went back to the drawing room to try to find something else, some other approach that could potentially get around the republican opposition while also bolstering voting rights for real. right now these republican fantasies and fabalisms about elections are being treated as pretext enough to nuke voting rights and to nuke the professio...

Through early voting, vote by mail, weekend voting. it ensures that states will have same day registration. the kinds of things that just make it -- makes voting accessible to the average person. in addition to that we're addressing these voter suppression laws that we're seeing all across our country that are intended to turn democracy on its head so rather than voters picking their politicians, the politicians select their own voters. it addresses the issue of partisan and racial gerrymandering. yet another way of squeezing the voices of ordinary people out of their democracy and it protects...

Former vice president dan quayle. at 74 the once boyish looking quayle was living the private golf playing life he loved in arizona. the two men shared a unique profile. pence phoned because he wanted advice. despite the electoral college casting votes for biden back on december 14th trump was convinced that pence could somehow throw the election to trump on january 6th when congress met to certify the final count. pence explained to his fellow inian dan quayle that trump was pressuring him to intervene to assure that biden wouldn't secure the needed 270 votes during the certification and push...

Try to be constructive and move forward in a way that can attract very, very mainstream and widespread support. >> that's absolutely right, rachel. our democracy is a 911 emergency. and while there are a number of important items for us to address in this congress, and we did so through the american rescue plan, through the infrastructure work that's happening right now. the most important thing we can do right now is to pass voting rights, to secure the future of our democracy. if we fail to do that i think we would have failed to rise in a defining moment in our american democracy, which is ...