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Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why you might be a little bit upset by what i said in that press conference. But to democrats, rest assured, i am still going to pursue the traditional infrastructure bipartisan package. While also wanting reconciliation process, the one that doesnt require republicans, which democrats had already started down the road a couple of weeks ago. So, he is saying, to the two parties, this was not meant as a
to the historical commitment on part of republicans to pass voting rights. i think we need to add a bit of historical nuance. even those trump thurman supported the voting rights, and even though ronald reagan supported it, ronald reagan in 1981, supported voting rights act with the stipulation that he wanted to eat some of the requirements. reagan, although he signed embraced the voting rights act, he foreshadowed the shelby decision. opening the door for where we are now. i want to be more nuanced and how we think about previous republican support for the voting rights act, in some days when we see now, the foundation has been late for the crisis that we have in terms of policies that republicans have embraced over the last decade. professor cobb, you wrote in the new yorker, martin luther king junior spoke of the
#. good morning mika and joe. we lost the status quo from 1965 to 2013. basically, what the supreme court s decision did is really end what was called preclearance. it s really the safe guard of the vra, if states try to change voter identification loss or states try to change early voting polling access, they had to clear that, preclear that with the justice department. and for states like, texas is my adopted hometown, states like texas for example as soon as shelby decision was passed, they passed a flourish of voter identification and other legislation that really
indefensible. even by their own standards of a few years ago, keesha, i m curious. what else would you like president biden to do on this king day? well, i think he has to continue to be forceful. it s great that he over the last couple days, over the last couple weeks have been speaking out and really calling out those who are standing in the way of voting rights. i wish he had done it sooner, but nonetheless, here we are, and i think he has to continue in that vein. i think he needs to remind people what we re up against, the passage of the john lewis voting rights act. the advancement of the voting rights act would ultimately restore restrictions that were gutted in the 2013 shelby decision. it s important to remind people what is taking place, to remind people what we have lost since shelby. and i think anyone who is deeply
congressional district which was majority black. and that was deliberately meant to reduce the electoral power of the black community in that state, and even justice roberts, who is the author of that 2013 shelby decision, which struck down the heart of the voting rights act, even he was in the dissent, because even he has lost control of the right wing majority of the supreme court. that s why folks like myself have called for other courses of action, including adding seats to the supreme court to save our ailing democracy. i m glad you brought up alabama. 27.8% of the population of alabama is black, and 14% of the districts, congressional districts in alabama have a majority black population. that should tell you everything you need to know. congressman, good to see you again. thanks for joining us tonight. thanks for your time. just ahead, we got new reporting on the documents of donald trump, that he took home from the white house, it turns out that some of them were top secret