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Subject to reconciliation. that it should be subject to a 60% threshold. "the wall street journal" taking aim at the media for the fact that it will be far more from being hit in, saying that the press has reported almost none of this which is how democrats like it. what do you think of that? >> i suppose thats true, i have to say i did not know it, i did not know that you knew it. i thought the article was an eye-opener. >> john: i was emailed a month to go about it. >> its very good reporting....

They dont mean what the president means when it comes to that. the stunning silence from republican members in terms of their attendance and what their plans are for saturday and how they are all distancing themselves as fast as possible from this, but not really wanting to talk about it, i think it speaks to their dilemma. on the one hand, they cant afford to totally alienate the base that still thinks and trump supporters who still think that the people who are here on january 6th were righteo...

Do we cut those costs, that really are squeezing families, squeezing people, keeping them up at night and keep the tax cut going that we passed thats, frankly, the biggest tax cut for american families in history. and how do we deal with the climate change while were creating millions of new jobs, and a lot of those in michigan, i have to say, were clean energy manufacturing, we want to bring those jobs back, we want to bring them home. but shes going to be talking about all of that. and then as...

There is a place for extended debate on legislative issues. i am hopeful that i can convince him that we ought to treat constitutional issues the same way we treat budget issues. we move the budget forward without this filibuster application so as not to threaten the credit of the united states of america. and we ought to move forward on constitutional issues when it comes to the filibuster. so the filibuster i think has its place, but not when it comes to voting and other constitutional issues....

Conversations with joe manchin. i like joe manchin. we have been friends for a long time. we used to do a lot of these kinds of chores together, just like i did with joe biden. so both of us have developed a great deal of patience with each other. and so i think that joe has made me a little bit sensitive to the filibuster. i wanted to get rid of the whole thing, but he convinced me that there is a place for extended debate on legislative issues. i am hopeful that i can convince him that we ough...

>> thank you. former president trump has been spending the weekend repeating his false claims about the election. last night he told the supporters the radical left rigs the election. on thursday, the supreme court upheld that no absentee ballots cannot be collected by anyone by caregivers or relatives. that is a this morning jim clyburn told cnn -- the way congress can ensure a fair election is to eliminate the filibuster on certain issues. >> we need to get rid of the filibuster for constitu...

With us, and we come up with a bipartisan infrastructure bill which we all worked with the president and took to him. so i know it can be done. >> hes saying you dont need to get rid of the filibuster because bipartisanship is possible on voting rights. whats your response? >> my response is very simple. we need to get rid of filibuster for constitutional issues, just like weve done for budget issues. if you want to argue about how high a wall is going to be, whether or not you ought to build a ...

Allian alliance, itself, the position of president trump going into this, what you call a leaders meeting, not a summit and what is the distinction there? >> nato is an extremely important security arrangement among 29 different nations all across europe and plus the united states and canada. the important thing is in my view, having served in nato and under the nato command guidance, they are very adaptable. since the wall came down in germany and prior to that, they were almost singularly focu...

Climate change, all of those things have been issues that nato said this is a new world and we got to continue to evolve and make sure our security is focused on the important things existing around the continent and the globe. >> we know that thursday, nato -- it seems somewhat offered an olive branch to the president because he is complaining about the financial contributions of of all the member nations and the fact the u.s. pays the most. they did decrease the u.s. financial contribution 16%...

They hope will save $270 million over 7 years. >> the big savings are the most dangerous ones. >> i would have no voice but to veto it. >> clinton figures out a clever bit of jiu-jitsu. the way to attack the republicans was to say newt gingrich wants to make your grandmother destitute. >> think about a party whose last stand is to frighten 85-year-olds and youll understand how totally bankrupt the democratic party is. >> yesterday he told government security that he was willing to let the united...