line that fox is laying out there, as we were talking about, that there s this systemic fraud rotting american elections for years. when they brought up the voting rights act, forget the broader democratic election bill. when they brought up just the voting rights act a few weeks ago, only one republican even voted to lisa murkowski voted to open the debate. i think what this says to joe manchin and kyrsten sinema is what they re asking for is completely unrealistic in this world. the idea that there will be large numbers of republicans willing to kind of step across this very deep channel that fox and all the other conservative media has created to support any effort to shore up voting rights. it s just unrealistic. so the choice they re going to face in a couple weeks on martin luther king day or around then is do they act alone or not act because i think what we re seeing is why it s so hard to get any meaningful number of republicans to resist what trump and fox and others are
vice president, do you actually think this is good for sean hannity? i think it s great for sean hannity. his speaking fees will go up. he wants to be a martyr and a leader of an authoritarian movement. what better proof than someone who s so close to the president of the united states, he s helping direct events on 1/6. wow. he has an inside channel. look, this is a dream come true for sean hannity, which doesn t mean they shouldn t subpoena him. of course they should. not good for democracy. ron, what did you want to say? i think this really shows what democrats are up against in this momentous choice they face in the next few weeks on whether to roll back the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. you know, the last time the senate reauthorized the voting rights act, republicans were in control of the senate and it passed 98-0. but you see in a fox world how difficult it is to get republicans to kind of cross the
so much. between the president s remarks, our pleasure, between the remarks and meeting with chuck schumer, do you feel the federal government, certainly this administration is taking what is happening in texas seriously enough? i want to thank president biden for the support and effort they have given not only to us but to other states kroos the nation are dealing with the same issue. so now we re here in d.c. to meet with that effort and meeting with lawmakers. and we re hoping that john lewis voting rights act and the for the people act can get out of neutral where it is stalled and get and be made into law. because we re living in barrowed time in the state of texas.
we recognize there is potential and itre won t be accomplished. what i mean specifically is john lewis voting rights act, being put into law. for the people act. helping to set a federal standard for elections. that way we can ensure the voter see pregs legislation that we re seeing in austin in, texas right now will never become law. if we can break form and stop all legislative buzz in the state of texas and coming to d.c., we re hoping we can continue to bring attention to this issue and that other senators might be moved and willing to work to ensure that this legislation is heard at the senate level and hopefully passed down into law. so we re doing this. we know we have a limited amount of time. but we re here and trying to make good progress. quickly, sir, you are concerned about beingck arreste upon returning toab texas?
2000 stopped the recount in florida. i want to talk about 1982. when reagan reauthorized and got his party together and reauthorized the voting rights act. and called it the crown jewel ow american liberties. i want to talk about 2006 when george w. bush despite attempts to water down the voting rights act among his party, passed a clean re-authorization of the voting rights act. by a majority of the folks in the house and the senate. right? if you re talking about doing everything that you can to make sure that we protect american democracy, right, we look to he took two bullets in the chest in defense of american o democracy. john lewis whose name was envoeked. who took a brick to the face. right? reagan and bush who again stood up to their party because they understood how important that or is. what i did not hear is what the president of the united states in this moment is willing to do in order to make sure that we pass the for the people act and