“We have our own democratic crisis here at home….Democracy matters and Ukraine is showing that. So of course we have our own election people — the Republicans in a lot of states trying to pull back the voter access to so many different Americans. So Democrats are….so eager for him [President Joe Biden] to also talk about voting rights….This idea of connecting what’s going in Ukraine to…how our democracy almost came to its knees on January 6th.”
— NBC News Washington correspondent/Moderator of PBS’s Washington Week Yamiche Alcindor on NBCNewsNow’s live coverage of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, March 1, 2022.