again, this is to while taking federal dollars from the biden administration, this is to stab or create to stab or attempt to stab take a stab at the president, his administration, and all of those of us who voted for him. ari berman, it feels like what we re watching play out is the audacity of shamelessness when it comes to voter suppression creating a climate for voter nullification and absolutely engineering the electorate. and i wonder at which point the hand-wringing stops and a really aggressive pushback can be mounted, either at a federal level it feels like voting rights legislation is dying while we speak or at a state level. the republicans have revealed themselves. this is the plan. and their voters reward them. they don t punish them. and it still feels like there isn t an adequate pushback or
one of the things we know about the court is that it is very opaque. we sometimes hear about relationships between the justices, the legendary friendship between rgb and scalia, which tells us people from all sides can have good personal relationships, but when something like this bleeds over and the support is just replete with different instances of discord on court, that tells you what s going on in reality is probably a lot worse than what we re hearing. it just speaks to how politicized and how divided the country is. the point i want to make is the supreme court is not cabined by the same ethics rules the guide the rest of the federal judiciary, but if you re a judge, you understand the compelling authority of the decisions that you hand down isn t because you have an army
fix it. this is a good piece of legislation that has served an important purpose over many, many years. this landmark piece of legislation will continue to make a difference. not only in the south, but for all of america and for all of us. whether we re african americans or not. senators grassley, shelby, crepo, cornyn, blackburn, capito, moran, wicker thought the same way mcconnell did. if it s not broken, don t fix it. who broke it, garrett? i think we know the answer to that, nicolle. what do they say? what they will say is the that times have changed. that s what republicans say about this. that the situation isn t what it was 16 years ago when that speech was given and they no lopger feel as the supreme court decided that those protections enshrined in some cases in the voting rights act are necessary to be renewed.
forces along the flanks but ukraine s president is far less alarmed than president biden who warned an invasion may be eminent. today president zelensky said he understands the situation better and the situation isn t worse than what ukraine has seen in the past. in russia today russian foreign min stir lavrov said he doesn t see room for compromise and russia would not let the rights to be trampled but doesn t want war he insisted. the u.s. boor ambassador to moscow said the actions say something else. if i say i come in peace and put a gun on the table, that s threatening. that s what we see now. reporter: what comes next? the diplomatic efforts continue.
out something that isn t working for them, they re very aware of the problems and it seems that this reset is an acknowledgment that it s time to make a pivot or a change. talk about your reporting. yeah, it is. and they re acknowledging that things haven t been working as everyone s been talking about and the president s been criticized by that even about that even from allies and what they re saying is that they want to essentially reposition him how the public sees him. so they spent a lot of time, there was some early momentum, he got some good victories, then he just got bogged down in the legislative process and they don t want him to be seen as that with the public. if you re negotiating it, you own it. whether it s a success or failure. and he s seen some failures recently and that s not helping them in their view in terms of his standing with the public. so they re reaching for what you know as a former white house official is kind of a go-to for