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bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let s begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw donald trump try to do that s come out through the course of these hearings and before about how he tried to pressure vice president mike pence to overturn election results, pressure state officials to disregard the election, refuse to concede, claimed the election was stolen without any evidence of proof of widespread fraud. what this aims to do is make it very clear that a vice president s role in

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