This is a rush transcript from “Special Report All-Star Panel” December 28, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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JOE BIDEN, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This new sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion is un-American.
REP. CHIP ROY, (R-TX): This whole idea that they are trying to save the voting rights act is a lie.
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JOE BIDEN, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I said before, we are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole, since the Civil War.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (D-VT): This is enormously important issue. Democracy is at stake.
NANCY PELOSI, (D-CA) HOUSE SPEAKER: Our democracy is at stake.
KAMALA HARRIS, (D) VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: People around the world watch what we do as America, and right now we are about to take ourselves off the map as a role model.
REP. CHIP ROY, (R-TX): They want a federal takeover of elections.
The threat to our republic, the threat to our national security is sitting right there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in both the vice president and the president.
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BAIER: The shift has happened now from Build Back Better, although Democrats say they are still going to try to move forward. We heard from the president tonight. He hasn’t spoken to senator Joe Manchin about a way forward for his vote.
But the voting rights bill is now the focus. They don’t have the votes though. Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona are not there on this. “The Federalist,” which is against this bill, writes it this way, “Democrats pivot back to radical election bill that would ban voter I.D. It would force states implement automatic voter registration, early voting, same day registration, and no-fault absentee balloting. It would require states to allow ballot harvesting, ban voter I.D. laws nationwide, and limit access to federal courts for anyone who challenges such…
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