argument over whether or not this is all about filibuster. but funny thing about leadership and time, it can make a difference. over time biden s begun to shift as have most senate democrats. here is chuck schumer today. these laws are the very spirit of our democracy. they are jim crow ii. if republicans refuse to join us in a bipartisan spirit, if they re continue to hijack the rules of the senate to turn this chamber into a deep freezer, we re going to consider the appropriate steps necessary to restore the senate so we can pass the proposals and send them to the president s desk. this is how the most powerful democrat in the senate is starting this week. the vote is next week. to win, they need all 50 democrats. what s going on inside the senate? well, we have a top former senator here for insight, barbara boxer. we re back in just 60 seconds. a. we rbae ck in just 60 seconds.
can control. so i think that, you know, the chairman s approach that, okay, we re going to find out what we can legally do is legitimate and they re going to pursue that. i don t think he s going to lose a night s sleep if he doesn t get jim jordan in the cross hairs. there are enough other angles and a lot of other documents out there. we just discovered from the role that was played by the folks over at fox. how many of those communications actually reference a jim jordan? they talk to jim, well, jim jordan said that s that will be enough as well. yeah. and julian, to that point we have some of that here. the cable cabinet as its called. january 10th, you had hannity texting jordan and discussing how to reign in trump. you can t mention the election ever. i didn t have a good call. he is asking for ideas. and you get sort of a somewhat rare peek at least in usually don t see it in real time, maybe in the history books, julia, of just how the folks are talking
guest, ari berman, writing for the nation, in his new piece, jim crow ii, a history of the fight for voting rights and the move to restrict them once again. so we did not see the voting rights measures in 2012 have the effect that we had originally had anxiety about. if anything, they had a bit of a boomerang effect. but now do you see these laws as potentially affecting impacts? absolutely. it s going to be a lot harder in an off-year election, a lot harder without barack obama on the ballot. and texas are voting on tuesday for voter i.d. amendments. their voter i.d. law is now effect because of the supreme court s decision overturning section 4 of the voting rights act. and we re already seeing the outcome of voter i.d. in texas. just yesterday we learned that former speaker of the house, jim wright, who s 90, was denied a voter i.d. in texas, because his driver s license has expired,