Cool as that image. Anderson, thank you. I am Michael Sverkhanish,

in for Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime and welcome also to the first official

Juneteed Federal Holiday in our nation's history. Complete with its own flag,

hoisted in places like Wisconsin today, the single white star symbolizing both Texas

where the last enslaved people in this country were told they were free and the freedom

of all African Americans in this country. And it was a Texas lawmaker today who reminded us that

while one battle for equality is finally finished, others are in limbo right now in Congress.

We step fastly work day after day for 12 years and it says that you voted for this holiday.

Now you can vote for the George Floyd Justice and policing act. You can fix the voting system

to give us voting rights to protect against those voter suppression laws.

But the sweeping voting rights bill, S1, it's frozen. While moderate Senator Joe Manchin waves

the flag of bipartisanship, the fate of his new slim down counter-proposal to his fellow Democrats

might be a foregone conclusion. That's because minority leader Mitch McConnell once again seems

more intent on acting like a blockade. Equally unacceptable, totally inappropriate,

but all Republicans I think will oppose that as well if that were to be a surface on the floor.

Yet Manchin's counter is gaining traction on the left with voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams.

She's even signaling possible openness to his call for a voter ID requirement.

What Senator Manchin is putting forward are some basic building blocks that we need to ensure

that democracy is accessible no matter your geography. Our point is simply that the restrictions

on the forms of ID should meet the needs of the people and what he is proposing makes sense.

Abrams voice of course matters, but she's not in Congress. And even if Manchin can get his entire

party on board with his changes, that only gets the Democrats to 50 votes. Tenshi, where this is not

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