cult mentality personality that is geared toward trump. so the only deal that you can cut is a deal that donald trump would essentially say is okay. he would have to give his stamp of approval to something like that. and what we know about donald trump right now is that his intense focus, a paranoia of sorts, is on voting and making sure that the election is cast into doubt. so i have some serious doubts myself that donald trump would ever sign off on any voting rights legislation unless it went totally towards the way it cast doubt on the 2020 elections. and diane, i want to close with this because this is important. we have to look at the white house thousand. we ve seen what is happening at the senate and lower level. vice president harris has been parachuted into try to spearhead some of the voting rights efforts. what can she do at a practical level? it shows that joe biden and the
backwards. imposing objections on a state that doesn t have any problems? so i m concerned about a level of the enthusiasm because it is a horrible negotiaing tactic. but, yes, we are in a better place than we were ten days ago. sam, i want to go sort of more specifically through the list. great stuff at the top. we ll make election day a national holiday, 15 days of mandatory early voting. but then you get to other suggestions here which would allow states to still maintain voter roles which many people interpret the ability to continue to purge voter roles at the last minute. also suggestions about severely limiting access to no excuse mail-in ballots and absentee balloting. sam, when you look at this list, what part of this do you think is joe manchin thinking or what
left of hysteria over claims that what happened on january 6 was dangerous. and that protesters weren t armed. now more proof that the right continues to lie about what actually happened. another one of their arguments is handicapped overnight. the justice department is charged a january 6 defendant, 48-year-old guy wesley with bringing firearms to the capitol which our own scott mcfarland described as a tough break for the not an armed insurrection crowd. that s the late ers evidence emerged in the last 24 hours. in today s the washington post there s the case that the longstanding attempt by the right to reshape the history of a january 6 riot has collapsed. point by point. because of the basic truths we can see with our eyes and hear
the department of justice. that is not something to be done by an assistant u.s. attorney or a mid level person at main justice. it should not have been done. i don t think it was done. i think it did go to the highest levels and will see what the new round of emails will show. doug jones, thank you for spending time with us. i miss you and thank you. thank you. up next, the man who helped president obama went the white house on what he called a def: con 1 moment for democracy. hail, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that s how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin s family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that s what s right.
2022. so if they don t do anything now, democracy isin trouble. cliff, i m very bottom line about what is important about these bills and when these bills actually matter. you are out in the streets, you are traveling around the country and you see what is going on. obviously the democrats will not get everything that they like. the progressives won t get everything that they like. but by the end of the year, what has to be passed at a federal level in order to have a punter s chance for remotely fair elections in places like georgia, florida and pennsylvania next year? first of all, you have to have more access to voting. some of the things that they mentioned is supporting. the expansion number of days for voting, making it easier. restrictions on closing polling places. so all of those provisions are important. i really think that something that is missing is that there has to be a provision which i