Today, we're going to talk about the Democrats finally putting a voting rights bill with full

democratic support on the floor for a vote and Biden's major statement on the filibuster.

I interview Congressman Adam Schiff about the January 6th Commission and whether we're

likely to see Trump testify.

And I'm joined by the editor at large at the Daily Beast, Molly Jung Fast, to discuss

the lopsided media coverage of Democratic and Republican administrations.

I'm Brian Teller Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

This past week, the Freedom to Vote Act was put on the Senate floor for a vote.

It was the first time that a voting rights bill with full universal support from every single

Democrat was introduced. This came after months of negotiations led by Joe Manchin and ended

with a bill that was endorsed by everyone from Barack Obama to Stacey Abrams.

And it includes desperately needed provisions like allowing for automatic voter registration,

at least 15 consecutive days early in-person voting, same-day voter registration,

no-excused mail voting with free postage,

the ability to count all mail-in ballots postmarked by election day and to count all provisional

ballots regardless of the precinct they were cast in, makes election day a federal holiday,

restores voting rights to former felons, combats partisan gerrymandering,

establishes federal protections to protect election officials from partisan interference,

protects election workers from intimidation, requires paper trails for voting machines,

and there's more, but those are the main provisions, so needless to say, a good bill.

And one that was very expectedly blocked by Senate Republicans.

Schumer put the Freedom to Vote Act up and every single Republican filibuster did.

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