voters who vote by mail, after their requests were purged out of the 2023 and 2024 elections. they will have to reapply. the mass cancellations were to comply with a controversial 2020 around election law, signed by governor ron desantis. that added new restrictions to mail-in voting. how challenging will it be for democrats to overturn these new voting restriction laws in states as we look towards 2024. listen, i think the sad truth is that we have seen this before. this is the same reheated voter suppression that we see from the republican party whenever there is an important election. so i think in terms of democrats, they should be prepared and expect us to happen and have the lawyers and the resources in place to make sure that people are able to vote and can do so as afforded by the constitution. i would also say to you that this is yet another assault
as you outlined a huge speech for the president in the state that stacey abrams has been fighting for voting rights, right? so it doesn t look great for this white house she s not going to be there no matter what they say the reason for that is. when you talk to georgia democrats and voting rights advocates in the state they say why are you coming here? we re all onboard with voting rights. we know we need to change the filibuster. we know that voting rights legislation needs to happen now and we re running out of time. but the white house clearly sees all the symbolic and they re a practical location for the speech, right? georgia has been described as ground zero on voting rights because of some voting restriction laws that have been passed there, where john lewis fought and died, martin luther king was also born and fought there. that is how the white house sees it. but you re right, the push back or at least some of the absence of these key georgia voting rights legislation is obvi
senator manchin and senator sinema who both support the bill. they just don t supported enough to get rid of the filibuster. and i think on this particular issue, it is i guess, if there were thousands of people outside of the capitol protesting this legislation, maybe that would create a different dynamic. it seems like the public generally is on their side. i don t know if they have lost the messaging battle. it is just a simple matter of these two senators. and i think everybody wants to search for other answers to why they haven t gotten this done. and i think the answer is right in front of us. i guess the argument from manchin and sinema is that if democrats do succeed in altering the filibuster, what is to stop republicans from using that to their advantage in passing these kinds of voting restriction laws on a federal level if they succeed in the midterms? on anything that the democrats
they re trying to do everything that they can to make sure that their votes are counted, but frankly, with safeguards eroding and with voter suppression on the march in state legislatures and in the absence of federal legislation, voters are really feeling like they are kind of on their own in a lot of these states in terms of making sure that their ballot is going to count. they are. frank figliuzzi and michigan attorney general dana nessel, thank you so much for starting us off this hour. errin is sticking around. when we come back, new reporting on the staggering number of voters disenfranchised by the new voting restriction laws in georgia. those shocking numbers. and new information on the investigation into the disgraced ex-president next. plus, russian military takes what s being seen as a significant step towards a possible invasion of ukraine. it comes amid a stepped-up disinformation campaign from moscow and a diplomatic showdown between the u.s. and russia at the u.n
in selma, alabama, with other civil rights leaders as head of national action network, and the vice president of the united states saying that we must protect democracy here against these new voting restriction laws in states in the united states. the best way to expose a dirty glass is to put a clean glass next to it. we must be clean about how we practice democracy as we deal with those that would try to limit or impede democracy abroad. let s fight on both fronts, and let s make democracy work fairly and equally for everybody at home and abroad. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here next weekend at 5:00 p.m. eastern. alicia menendez picks up our news coverage at the top of the hour.