secretary jena griswold joins us now. appreciate you being with us.n colorado. but first, i just want to get your reaction to the breaking news out of washington, the failure of the senate, along partisan lines, to move forward a federal voting rights bill. senator mcconnell is saying it's not necessary, this is something that should just be left up to the states and go through the courts, if necessary. >> well, anderson, thank you for having me on. my reaction from what happened in d.c. is democrats are united in protecting voting rights, and senate republicans are united in allowing states to suppress their voters. that's what we're seeing across the nation, a concerted effort, coordinated to undermine democracy and then justify the passing of voter suppression. so i believe that it's urgent that we do have the senate take action and really call on every single senator to do a carveout of the filibuster. we cannot allow the filibuster to be the reason that democracy is destroyed by these voter suppression tactics, these fake audits, and literally in

. >>> plus, jena griswold, staving off a sham audit in her state. that and more coming up., june 19th, juneteenth. the very first federally recognized observance of this holiday. on this day in 1865, more that two years after president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, the union army general gordon granger announced in an address in galveston, texas, that the union had won the war and all enslaved americans were free. this week president biden signed into law a proclamation declaring this day a federal holiday, america's 11th federal holiday. >> this is a day profound in my view, profound weight and profound power. by making juneteenth a federal holiday all americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history. it is not going to be fulfilled so long as the sacred right to vote remains under attack. we see this assault from restrictive laws, threats of intimidation, voter purges, and more. an assault that offends the very democracy, our very democracy. we can't rest until the promise of equality is fulfilled for every one of us in every corner of t

jena griswold is colorado's secretary of state. thank you for joining me. >>> joining me now democratic senator matzie hirono, a member of multiple committees. great to see you again. aloha. >> good morning. aloha. >> let's talk a bit about where voting rights. these states, texas in particular, has said we can do what we can do in our states to fight back against restrictive voting laws, but we have to have the rules that the federal government can put into place. they were clear on the fact states can't do this without the feds. >> that's right. and this is why when the states start to enact these kind of voter suppression laws, what i call steal your vote laws, the federal government comes in and that's what the voting rights act was all about. thanks to the supreme court, the major part of that law is out the window. that's why there is a huge blow for the federal government at a time when the states are considering hundreds of steal your vote laws. >> i spoke to jim clyburn earlier this morning and he said we should simply acc