have the rights to pass on the measles vaccine or the rights to drive around without a seat belt on. if you find out that your kid s parents or kids friends parents are not wearing seat belts, we are not going to let you roll with that. we have some standards to uphold in the safety of our own family community and while people can make up their own mind. i did want to get your reaction because we are seeing that. the house is very busy today. the trillion dollars in spending would be a lot on its own but they are also holding votes on the issue you have been working on for a long time. the house is voting right now, we are tracking this vote and we don t have it complete it yet, which of course restoring more federal oversight of the voting situation. this is an issue that we have seen of the supreme court guarantee the rights to vote around the country. i want to show congresswoman
house, including from some of his closest allies, jim clyburn telling me if we don t get the voting situation right now, forget about raffaele being re-elected to hold the majority in many places, and one senior white house told me we understand the pressure from the activist and it s good and healthy but give the president some healthy because he has been showing he knows how to execute a strategy to get change here and the white house views this as a broader fight where republicans need to face consequences at the ballot box, not just in the mid-term elections but in the state races where they don t pay attention to it. damian, you were one of those self civil rights leaders that met with president biden on thursday to talk about voting
these votes. chris: that is interesting because with the democrats say is this is going to end up being an effort at voter suppression, not to say that is wrong, but the democratic line on this, this it will be an effort to make it harder for people to vote. jonah. that is with the democrats say about any voter integrity law because they basically have this theory that even the most minimal requirements for citizens to vote is somehow illegitimate, which has always struck me as ridiculous. i will say, though, to charlie s position, i agree that voter fraud exists. it tends to exist and matter only in very close state or local elections where a few hundred ballots, like in wisconsin or washington state, can tip the election. that can happen. i agree with you. it would be great to have some sort of copperheads of effort to straighten out the voting situation. that is clearly not what the motive for this. this is clearly an ego-based thing about covering up for the
these votes. chris: that is interesting because with the democrats say is this is going to end up being an effort at voter suppression, not to say that is wrong, but the democratic line on this, this it will be an effort to make it harder for people to vote. jonah. that is with the democrats say about any voter integrity law because they basically have this theory that even the most minimal requirements for citizens to vote is somehow illegitimate, which has always struck me as ridiculous. i will say, though, to charlie s position, i agree that voter fraud exists. it tends to exist and matter only in very close state or local elections where a few hundred ballots, like in wisconsin or washington state, can tip the election. that can happen. i agree with you. it would be great to have some sort of copperheads of effort to straighten out the voting situation. that is clearly not what the motive for this. this is clearly an ego-based
texas, right? why do they think that? well, what the supreme court decision in june did was to remove texas from the preapproval process whenever we have any kind of changes in our voting laws. and that s not what the obama administration wants. they want to keep their thumb on the texas election system so they are now asking a court to give the obama administration the authority to be able to preapprove whatever election changes we may have, especially our voter id law that we re trying to put into effect. martha: all right. and explain to everybody exactly how that law would change the voting situation in texas ahead of your next election. what it would mean, for instance, this voter id law that we passed in the state of texas to insure integrity in our elections system, the obama administration could hold that up and deny us the ability to implement that law for the upcoming election. martha: so do you see, i mean, obviously, a lot of times people want to push things through the