should get vaccinated, he s been vaccinated, everyone should get vaccinated. that s different. i ve personally talked to him about it. that s different. so i disagree with our assessment. that s not my assessment. it s not that he says get vaccinated. it s that he says nothing about the people undermining the vaccine without basis. that s what i m talking about. he does the same thing with the big lie. he says, there wasn t any election fraud. it is what it is. he doesn t say anything about the fact that his party is overrun with people questioning the election. what kind of leadership is that? it s not enough to say get vaccinated. you have to say, this guy s lying to you. it s not enough to say the election was good. it s, these people are lying to you. isn t that the bar? i mean, chris, i think mitch mcconnell s been very clear how he feels about the election. number one, that joe biden won and is the legitimate president and number two, they he doesn t agree with the fe
they don t want to consider the mansion bill? i think that s totally wrong. when you take a look what is happening in these states where they re trying to rollback. look, it should be easy to vote without having fraud. okay? it should be made easy and these states now are engaged in making it more difficult. so i just completely disagree with republicans that say that mansion bill doesn t make sense. it makes total sense. it not a total federalizing of elections but what it does do is set guard rails into law and make sure people can vote and secure. i completely disagree with them with the mansion bill. they re wrong on it. let s talk about voting s secure and fraud and i want to play something to get to the conversation. this is a senate majority leader check schumer, that is what he said after the vote. every single senate
i think that s totally wrong. when you take a look what is happening in these states where they re trying to roll back. look, it should be easy to vote without having fraud. okay? it should be made easy and these states now are engaged in making it more difficult. so i just completely disagree with republicans that say that manchin bill doesn t make sense. it makes total sense. it not a total federalizing of elections but what it does do is set guard rails into law and make sure people can vote and the voting is secure. i completely disagree with them with the manchin bill. they re wrong on it. let s talk about voting secure and fraud and i want to play something to get to the conversation. this is a senate majority leader check schumer, that is what he said after the vote. every single senate republican just voted against
redistricting commissions so there s no more gerrymandering, that s a reference in his compromise, then you really begin to approach a level playing field in our elections going forward. i see some good things in there but i d like to see much more progress than that going forward. and finally, senator mcconnell i think believes he has a winning issue when he presents this as the federalizing of the running of elections. traditionally a very local practice. your thought on that is what? that was exactly the argument in 1965 but luckily logic prevailed and we understood as a country you can t trust mississippi and georgia and texas to guarantee the right to vote to black citizens because they were denying it in practice and in outcome. so you the get the 65 voting rights act, yes, federal mandates that affect how the state-run elections are held. there s a long standing precedent to that. at this moment that we face the
voter registration. there were 7 million texans who didn t vote many registered or with other barriers in place. the other thing i would add is getting the power of big corporate donations out of our politics by elevating the power of everyday citizens to donate and have that matched at the federal level. that ensures that, you know, insurgent candidates have a chance to challenge the incumbents. those who are locked into their positions can be effectively competed against. when you add non-partisan redistricting commissions so there s no more gerrymandering, that s a reference in his compromise, then you really begin to approach a level playing field in our elections going forward. i see some good things in there but i d like to see much more progress than that going forward. and finally, senator mcconnell i think believes he has a winning issue when he presents this as the federalizing of the running of elections. traditionally a very local practice. your thought on that is what?