is. good evening. sir, pleasure to have you on. happy new year my dear. this is near and dear to your heart. barring some miracle. voting rights will fail in the senate next week when schumer brings it to a vote. what does that mean for voters and gop led states where they pass these restrictive voting laws? it means we re in a deeper crisis than many people are willing to admit, brother. this is very real. voting is one particular means by which people try to raise their voices. you can raise your voice in the workplace and culture but voting suppression, election subversion, these are ways of trying to ensure that democracy cannot flower and flourish. keep in mind, brother, no democracy could survive because of the passion and ignorance
democrats will be able to pass what they are pushing for. so joining me now civil rights leader cornell west. there he is. good evening, sir. it s always a pleasure to have you on. happy new year. happy new year to you. this is near and dear to your heart, i know, voting rights. barring some miracle, professor west, voting rights will fail in the senate next week when the senate when senator schumer brings it to a vote. what does that mean for voters and gop led states where they are passing these restrictive voting laws? it means we re in a deeper crisis. this is very real. you see voting is just one particular means by which people try to raise their voices. there are different ways you can raise your voice in the workplace and culture and so forth. but all of these are ways of trying to ensure that democracy cannot flower and flourish.
what does it mean for the middle east? he s hopeful. there are two schools of thought, democracy cannot flower in the middle east, versus those who think there can be a democracy. fareed is in the latter camp. he thinks there can be a democracy. he sees this as a real historical moment in the middle east. we re bringing in some ways fruition to the bush freedom agenda and then the more moderate obama version of it. now people in the middle east are taking up that challenge. tom daschle, revolution in the middle east, may be very good for the people of egypt. in realism terms, it may not be great for u.s. foreign policy. joe, this is a very uncertain time. all the players are changing. the circumstances are changing. obviously we re going to have to recalculate as we go. as we said earlier, there really