in fact james mattis insisted on having what is called the election clause in the constitution which gives states initially the ability to set time, place and manner of election but gives congress the power to override purse iso because james mattis andri the others felt that state legislatures would be captured by a fraction impasse that we would now call voter suppression laws or gerrymandering. . . . that then, but that's what they're talking about. that there needs to be checks and balances. our national government needed to make sure that people had the effective right to vote. that is what this legislation would do. it would set national standards and modernize our elections in a way that is fair to everyone. what we see with our naked eyes, right in front of us, the racially driven and partisan efforts to restrict the vote across the country. if we aren't happy with that, if we aren't satisfied that's the way to >> if we are not satisfied that that is the way to go, that can be problematic. >> let's take a call. >> i haven't heard anybody i talking about the politician from mi

there are two people who were at light the livelong of the him erin burr and james mattis. but they retired. they may not wanted to be retired, but medicine was totally retired. when it comes to i live in philadelphia. i had an operation in the last year the same place that john marshall died the same building the first hospital in the united states. it comes up is got kidney stones. i forget he was in washington or lisbon at the time. he writes all the way up. kidney stones. now that is a man. that's the guy is living any dies in philadelphia basically on the operating table. but he is working until then. and has a very long career. the 30 some years he was chief justice is only part of it. i hope people get to read my book. as well as his career. while people did his founding fathers it really wasn't that hard. there's only 3 million people in the first census. 3million whites people i'm sorry, people who could then there were women so presumably they're even less than that. it could've been founding fathers. in their way out in western virginia. so if you really wanted t

we were a hell of a lot better off with james mattis in the pentagon than a lot of the clowns who followedi know it's hard for people to grasp, some people to grasp on twitter, but deborah birx was working a tightrope and if you think she should have quit much earlier, if people think that, that's fine, but there's an argument to be made that she actually staying in there and being humiliated time and again and slugging it out and fighting behind the scenes probably did a lot more good than if she had quit earlier and let an idiot like scott atlas go in there. >> and dr. fauci didn't quit. i didn't hear the same calls for him, why didn't he step aside? no, people wanted dr. fauci in there the way they wanted dr. birx. i take your point. and i also would just say, that the guidance people from the outside, who haven't been around donald trump, the people like dr. deborah birx is, flattery of this man gets you what you want from him. if you do it in public, all the better. so she went out and said things that made a lot of us cringe about donald trump, his handling of the facts and the way h