else. reverend, you support nuking the filibuster, do you get the sense from democrats you have spoken to that they are willing to take that step? well, i don t know, because it should have happened up front. i don t know what all the waiting has been. you know, voting rights is essential, but again, the problem is we re separating these things out. we believe the president and vice-president should go to texas, west virginia, meet with people, go to the well of the congress, state of the union and say these are the three democracies, we must protect them. through infrastructure, by democracy, infrastructure by daily lives, represented in bbb and infrastructure by roads and technology. they re not separate people, pieces, but we also say in 2020, over 6,800 million people voted were poor and low wealth, in the battle ground states, make up more than 44% of the electorate,
many american s 16s in the last year, many have been on a local level, attacks from elected officials, misinformation, we saw a lot of information earlier that really have taken attacks restricting access to ballot, seen so many proposals and bills coming into 2022. this attack on democracy goes beyond what just happened on january 6 and americans probably aren t able to see that up front but what the investigation will do is lay out firsthand experiences what people need to know, to hear, to see, however we know that may not always make a difference, the polling shows it as is. we it is disappointing to see, but what we can do is hope that with more information, with a public hearing, with more public hearings and testimonies, and information that s of clearly, clearly laid out for the american people, they can trust what they re hearing actually happened and as a full-on attack on democracy. chairwoman liz cheney spoke
now who they are, they re defending it, this is the new lost cause and when so many of your voters live in this concealed media ecochamber, you re seeing a lot of republican candidates running as far to the right, putting their arms around the former president as tightly as they can and you re not seeing, on the left, democrats out there i mean they re going to talk about it, you know, but just get the sense that that is not going to be the issue, saving democracy is not going to be the issue that gets voters to the polls. if anything, it gives them maybe a little more motivation to come up with some way to address voting rights so that their base, the democratic base, isn t frustrated that republicans have passed all these laws predicated on trump s big lie at the state level to make it harder for people to vote and the democrats who control every lever in washington other than supreme court, that s where the pressure
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congresswoman s account for spreading lies about covid-19. but her congressional official twitter account remains in operation. tubman, white house reporter for los angeles times, and nbc critical analyst and strategist, i want to start with you. you look at the polling, and those numbers about who believes what. what does that tell you about the next few weeks and months are going to look like? i feel like representative kinsinger hit the nail on the head when he said with all this truth, the evidence we have, there are still certain people who won t believe this and we know he s talking about those trump supporters who trump has been able to hold into his grips with his lives, with his consistent themes of just ignoring the reality of how serious and dangerous january 6 was and the impact that has had on our democracy. i do think that the select committee still has an up hill battle in terms of what it s presenting to the public and