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All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once ...

All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once ...

Misgivings about the job offer after speaking to the production team about budgeting and staffing issues there. but a source close to the production tells cnn there was no budget issue with that film. okay. a state race with national implications so clear, the president himself is on the campaign stump. i also love cookh heart-healthy, idaho potatoes. alalways look for the grown in idaho seal.

About when i started speaking to the various powers that be on the production to secure my employment with -- with really numbers and budgeting, staffing questions that needed addressing. >> i want to read an e-mail that -- that you -- you received back from a location manager saying wed really like one that can push up on the gun fights and heavy armor days, end quote. we should mention a source close to production tells cnn production was not trying to combine the two roles and it was not a bu...

And heavy armor days, end quote. we should mention a source close to production tells cnn production was not trying to combine the two roles and it was not a budget issue. i know you e-mailed back declining the job. can you just explain what you took that e-mail to mean and why you thought that might be an issue? >> well, we should think about the climate in which that e-mail came. we were in the process of negotiating over several days. we had sort of been up and down with numbers and staffing ...

The parliamentarian who has done a very poor job in my view up to now. they said amnesty is not a budget issue. they said ignore the parliamentarian. kill the filibuster rule. 50/50 in the senate with a little majority in the house, we control everything. when you look at this, and then their desire to change the voting system, so 16 and 17-year-olds can register to vote. not that they should vote yet, mind you, to make sure that anybody who votes is not challenged, ever, to make sure the voting...

Every family in this country, they wanted to push amnesty through here. it is not a budget issue, they started attacking her, ignore the parliament -- were on a role, here. 50/50, we control everything. you look at this, they decide to change the voting system. change the voting system. 16 and 17-year-olds can register to vote, not that they should vote yet, to make sure that anyone who votes is not challenged. ever. to make sure that voting role -- roles are not cleared ever, they want to destr...

Reconciliation, which only needs a 51-vote majority, and they even have the support of joe manchin. oh, wait, theres someone else i need to introduce you to. meet elizabeth mcdonagh, a th former immigration lawyer who has served as a little known but at times hugely power official in the united states senate because the only way a permanenh fix to the dreamers problem is going to happen by skirting the filibuster, by reconciliation, is if the senate parliamentarian elizabeth mcdonagh allows it t...

>> so hes saying you dont need to get rid of the filibuster because bipartisanship is possible on your voting nights. whats your response? >> we need to get the filibuster. just as we have done for budget issue. if you want to argue about or how wrong it will be. those are issues that are political and lets have the filibuster. if so long this extended the base. >> we what we have done with the modern day filibuster, we would allow the senate sit in a spa some where, pick up the phone and call t...

Last couple of years. and specifically, take the example that your segment just that, where they are a request to cut $17 million in funding for police. in the last covid bill they are referencing, the biden administration gave california $27 billion. it carries a surplus -- of course they could fund to the police department of oakland, but this isnt a budget issue. it is a political issue, which democrats are intent on cutting funding to the police. it is what they have campaigned on, and it is...