. >>> coming up, bob bauer is one of the most influential lawyers. now he's starting to look at politics very differently. bob joins me after a very quick break. b joins me after a very q break. we make a change, my sites not going to go down. and just knowing that i have a platform that we can rely on, that is gold to us. start your free trial today. hi, i'm jason. i've lost 228 pounds on golo. ♪ changing your habits is the only way that gets you to lose the weight. and golo is the plan that's going to help you do that. just take the first step, go to golo.com. here's how "the new york times" describes my next guest. for decades democrats have turned to him as their lawyer to wage battle against the opposition, reverse a house race they seemingly lost, accuse the other side of criminal activity go, to court to cut off money flows, find the justification for an iffy strategy. mr. bauer was their man. that's quite a description. he's quite a man. i've known him for a long time. now the super lawyer who has served as counsel to barack obama and otheroth

joining me now is bob bauer.t, and i love that, because you have done so many political campaigns. i want to ask you about this moment we are in. i've been through a lot, not as much is you. but president biden, who you know well, made the decision he would not eke re-election. vice president harris has come in. the party seems to be coming together. there's a lot of inspiration there in the last couple of weeks, as much as it is been full of turmoil. how has it been for you personally? >> i have a lot to think about. i was saying before the break, the last election, the last time it was unexpected was 1968. but i will say this -- president biden, the decision he made, i like to say it's not just because he was a candidate, but he made that decision as president of the united states. he decided in that capacity, he had to put governing ahead of other can iterations. i think that is inspiring. i think that makes a huge difference how people think about how their leaders make decisions. that is something i have tho

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large role in as co-chair of the presidential commission on electioadministration with his co-chair bob bauer who is obama's white house council, which made many of these recommendations and really catalyzed so much of this positive transformation in red states and blue states across the country without regard to politics. we have done a really nice job, which is not to say there isn't room for improvement, there always is. but our elections today are as secure, transparent, accessible, and verifiable as they've ever been in american history, and it's not close. - you know, if you look at it over the course of the last few decades of this sort of ongoing trend, despite all the noise, despite all the rancor, despite all the misinformation of our elections, bit by bit getting more and more secure, more and more accurate, more and more accessible, and us as election officials becoming more and more transparent, in some ways is a reaction to a lot of the challenges we've endured. and so my hope, and i would say what we're actually seeing when you peel back all of the layers, is an election system

administrators and part -- and ensure the communities are holding the ship stable, the work that bob bauer and ben ginsberg, the best example of two people who can go to war and go out for drinks afterwards, that work is extraordinarily important and if you can get your local bar to be involved in that, that'll make a difference more than anything else in holding things together in november. >> i've got more questions here. the question is going to make the dean's letter available. we can do that. how do we do that? the dean's letter is on which website? show me the link. here is the other question. it is for bill and dennis. what can law schools do to educate lawyers now about the obligations to help preserve democracy, not just law students but how about the lawyers today? >> personally, you have on the staff you are working with, they have the greatest ability to cause people to be able to read something and understand it and you don't need a phd to know what needs to be done and how it is done and what we are going to do is prepare some remarks, even for the gn council -- gm council st