of justice kavanaugh. on capitol hill this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi reacting to the senate vote. senate republicans lined up in lockstep behind mitch mcconnell and donald trump to vote to rip away the constitutional right to health freedom for american women across the country. this hour, i will speak with president obama s former attorney general eric holder about the supreme court, voting rights and the attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trump defense secretary mark esper joining me to talk about the astounding revelations about the former commander in chief. with covid cases rising, president biden mourning the loss of 1 million lives to the virus. 1 million covid deaths. 1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table. around the world, many more millions have died. millions of children have been orphaned. we must honor those we have lost by doing everything we can to prevent as many deaths as possible. we start with the fight for abortion ri
there s a fair districting amendment that if applied will throw out continue to have thrown out that which governor desantis has done. what he is doing is not inconsistent with what we talk about in the book. this is a fight for voting rights for people of color in this country, but also for people more generally. when you talk about in the book our people who are known and unknown heroes who fought the fight to get the vote, to keep the vote. we are seeing in florida a continuation of that struggle. why haven t democrats in congress tried to change the electoral college law, which opens the door for all the shenanigans we have seen at the state level with secretaries of state? in 1960 they tried to change the electoral college and making the presidential elections be decided on a popular vote. one of the things we talk about is we elect senators, congressmen by the popular vote. we even elect class presidents
they were in support of voting rights. if senator manchin, senator sinema, and whatever other senators don t want to join them in that, that s up to them to go to voters and explain why they re opposed to changing a rule, not a law, for voting rights. i think it is imperative for democrats, and i believe that democrats are going to run the risk of jeopardizing both majorities if they cannot energize their party by standing up for voting rights by standing up for the rights they expect. i any senator schumer was reflecting that as the will of the majority of his caucus. do you think that there could be majority support, filibuster support majority support for some fix on the electoral college law? so you could prevent what was
joining with the paper statement, we know those rule changes votes will fail. i think the question now is whether or when that vote occurs, whether the senate democrats decide it is important enough to kind of have a historical vote on changing the rules so that we know where everybody stands, even though they know it will fail, or whether it s better to stay united as a party in favor of those voting rights bills as they press forward and try to figure out what, if anything, can be accomplished on this issue with a reminder that the midterms start in a few months. the first primary s coming up in march in texas. let me ask you also about what mitt romney had to say on meet the press the will to rewrite the electoral college law, the rewrite to stop future vice president from invalidating legitimate votes as former president trump was pressing mike pence to do. this is what romney had to say. the group of about 12 senators, republicans and