next congress, if kevin mccarthy is in charge of the house of representatives, there is no way that a trump fluky like that is gonna pass laws to make it harder to steal an election. so, let me see if i can ask another way, which is between now, in 2024, which is the moment you are, and a lot of americans, including myself, are concerned about. a potential repeat. what other actions can be taken? either congress, executive order, outside of either of those branches, on a state legislative level, that can shore up election security, and integrity, in this country? there is a lot to be done, even if congress doesn t act. only congress can fix the electoral count act, there are things that can be done in each state. for example, make sure that they re not using holy electronic voting machines. that there is a piece of paper, to be re-counted. push, and your local areas, for transparency and how votes will be counted. what is someone who embraces the big lie is, the one who s in charge
manchin and a few other senators won t blow up the filibuster, so the only hope of passing legislation to deal with problems to the electoral count act, and other risks to election subversion, is for them to be a bipartisan deal. from what i understand there s still conversations going on with joe manchin, susan collins, and others. so i don t think that effort is quite dead, though we haven t heard much about it over the last few months. i think there s a realization that, if it doesn t happen soon. it s not going to happen in the next congress, if kevin mccarthy is in charge of the house of representatives, there is no way that a trump fluky like that is gonna pass laws to make it harder to steal an election. so, let me see if i can ask another way, which is between now, in 2024, which is the moment you are, and a lot of americans, including myself, are concerned about. a potential repeat. what other actions can be taken? either congress, executive order, outside of either of those
inability it turns out he can t control his caucus. reporter: that caucus is once again up in arms. despite boehner s tough talk. i have made clear for months and months that the idea of default is wrong. we shouldn t get anywhere close to it. reporter: the speaker failed to convince house conservatives to line up behind republican proposals to lift the debt ceiling and end the shutdown. it didn t matter anyway. as reed said, the gops plans were dead on arrival in the senate. the extremist republicans and house of representatives are attempting to torpedo the senate s bipartisan progress with a bill that can t pass the senate. reporter: that portrait of washington dysfunction was all the respected fitch ratings agency needed to see. it issued a warning it may downgrade the nation s aaa credit reporting, a potential repeat of what standard & poors did in 2011. although the agency says the
it turns out he can t control his caucus. reporter: that caucus is once again up in arms despite boehner s tough talk. i have made clear for months and months that the idea of default is wrong. we shouldn t get anywhere close to it. reporter: the speaker failed to convince house conservatives to line up behind republican proposals to lift the debt ceiling and end the shutdown. it didn t matter anyway as reed said, the gop s plans were dead on arrival in the senate. extremist republicans in the house of representatives are attempting to torpedo the senate s bipartisan progress with a bill that can t pass the senate. reporter: that portrait of washington dysfunction was all the respected fitch ratings agency needed to see. fitch issued a warning it may downgrade the nation s aaa credit rating, a potential repeat of what standard & poors did after the last debt ceiling debate of 2011 although fitch continues to believe that the debt ceiling will be raised soon, the agency said,