restrict the vote with donald trump s lie about the stolen election. it must go through congress, but with little or no gop support and opposition from democrats, that s looking increasingly unlikely. so what will the attorney general do? we ll bring you those comments from garland as soon as they begin. we start this hour with reporter shannon pettypiece, garrett haake. we also have the brennan center for justice at the university school of law, that s wendy wiser, and carol anderson. she s also the author of one person, no vote: how voter suppression is destroying our democracy. shannon, we ll start with you. what are we expecting to hear from the attorney general, and his policy address today, should this be read as a tacit acknowledgment that this legislation likely isn t going
disenfranchisement does damage to a democracy and it did damage internationally. so when the u.s. was putting pressure on the soviet union to open up the eastern bloc and bring democracy, you had the foreign minister turning to the secretary of state saying, when are you going to bring some democracy to south carolina? wendy, let s talk about the current day here, because absent federal action, this will be fought in the courts. will that effort be successful based on what you know about who is bringing these cases and the courts in which they re being filed? so i want to just start by saying that there is still a path forward in congress. the game is not over for the for the people act or the john lewis voting rights advancement act. despite the setbacks, this is still a top priority for both the majority leader in the senate and the house, the speaker of the house, and the president. so i want to be clear,
under the trump presidency and particularly the trump post-presidency, the idea that elections could somehow be stolen. they weren t. that mail-in ballots would be fraudulent. they weren t. things put in place because of the pandemic to make voting easier and more accessible should now be rolled back because the pandemic is being rolled back has really caught on on the right, and i think you re seeing republican-led states try to outdo each other with who can come out with the most stringent republicans, and you have representatives who represent those states in many cases who don t want to step on the messages that their own state legislators are putting out there, because that s where the trump base in this country are in state legislatures and governors mansions, and that s what pushes elections in congress even further to the rye, because they re seeing these folks come up behind them. garrett, that s such good context. i appreciate that. wendy, let s talk about the for
0 it s great to see you. i m geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, there is a lot happening on this summer friday. this hour we will see president biden and the first lady at the g7 summit in the u.k. they re about to have a gathering of world leaders and they ll be joined by british royals. we ll have it for you live if it happens. back here at home, there is bombshell news on the trump doj, saying they seized the records of high democratic lawmakers and their families members all hunting down leaks about trump and his contacts with russia. obviously deeply suspicious of what the justice department was doing. more than that, this looks like a patent abuse of the department, yet another example of the president politicizing, using the department of justice as a cudgel to go after his enemies. more that in a moment, but any moment attorney general merrick garland is expected to announce new actions by the doj to protect voting rights in this country. as legislatures attempt to r