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Doing, and it hasnt been effective. >> not exactly, victor. i think one of the hidden stories in the speech and again, i dont want to take away from it, he made the call that we wanted to hear. that sentence, im tired of being quiet, what he said is i have been having these quiet conversations for two months. you go back and watch it or read the transcript, he said for two months so if not for the lead with the filibuster, what the lead of the speech could have been, mr. president, are you telli...

Play. everybody has a role to play in terms of getting this democratic caucus to do the things that people put them in power to do. if a majority can be used in states to suppress the vote, then a majority should be all that we need in the senate in order to protect our voting rights and protect this democracy. >> you make an interesting point about having these quiet conversations for two months, also considering its been six months since the speech at the national constitution center in philad...

Now, yesterday president biden called on lawmakers to pass major voting and election legislation. >> mcconnell responded with a scathing speech of his own. >> yesterday, he shouted that if you disagree with him, youre george wallace. george wallace? you dont pass the laws he wants, youre bull connor. he compared, listen to this, a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. how profoundly, profoundly unpresidential. look, ive known and personally respected joe biden for many years. i di...

Filibuster rule which would lower the number of senate votes needed to get the law approved. yesterday the president gave a big speech in atlanta and condemned republicans for not supporting the bills. joining me now is cliff albright, cofounder of black voters matter. he was one of the georgia voting rights activists who skipped attending the presidents speech in person. welcome back. thank you for your time. lets start here. you initially before this speech said we dont need another speech, th...

Than in its own state of delaware. he blasted georgias procedures regarding local elections officials while pushing national legislation with almost identical language on that issue. >> whats your reaction to what youre hearing there? >> my reaction is this is coming from mitch mcconnell who as we know, hes complaining about people trying to break the senate, hes the one whos broken the senate, and so, you know, we cant really take anything, again, this is the same person that has said that ther...

Thing that we wanted to hear. we still, some of us, would have liked to have seen a little bit more laid out in terms of an outline of what the next actions would be but were starting to see that as soon as today, as you all have talked about in terms of him and the vice president making phone calls, and the caucus meeting tomorrow. those are exactly the kinds of actions that our coalition was calling for, more so than the speech. we would have loved for the speech to have been given in d.c., an...

Primary series, but to get your booster series, and yes, were really encouraged by these results. >> so once again, alisyn, and victor, the full comments show walensky did not say what a bunch of people on the right are claiming. >> and abc has loudly and fully corrected the record now? >> what they did is released the full footage on monday, and at the end of the full footage, they put in a text note saying that the friday footage on tv had been edited they say for time reasons. when i asked th...

Votes in order to get this on joe bidens desk. manchin and sinema continue to resist. what got mcconnell upset was the comment from biden yesterday was do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace or do you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor, do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln, and jefferson davis, and mcconnell fired back. >> but yesterday he poured a giant can of gasoline on the fire. months ago, the president said every disagreement doesnt have to...

Didnt indicate he has changed his views in any way. privately im told discussions have been tense with sinema and manchin, and they have indicated little willingness to go as far as the democrats want, but nonetheless, joe biden is coming to exhale tomorrow, plans to lobby democratic senators, manchin and sinema to change their minds. no indication thats going to happen. they are pushing forward for the key vote later this week or potentially as late as monday. >> manu raju, thank you. >> here t...