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Have not been able to follow through on many of the promises that were made, right? does the president risk the same thing here codifying roe, you can send a bill to congress, can you not mean its actually going to happen. its going to be an uphill battling. >> thats why i thought it was really interesting, the president devoted a big part of his speech talking about what was at stake with voing rights specifically. we need to not just keep control of the house, but we need to add votes to our m...

Its not damning with faint praise, but of course you thinks shes the most effective first term senator, she blocked a lot of the stuff that he couldnt do as minority leader, by insisting that the filibuster not be reformed so lets say voting rights could happen, voting rights reform could happen, that other bills could be passed, codifying roe, standing in the way of the agenda the democrat president. >> i get why mitch mcconnell is weighing into this. but why would kyrsten sinema be, tim? >> i ...

In the senate? is there going to be any work to do that? >> what the president said is an order, he will take actions and he has taken bold actions. we have announced that over the past several short month over the summer. hes taken leadership on it. the president has been clear in order to codify, to make sure roe is law is that congress has to take action and the american people have the make sure again that the voices are heard. and so that is the message we have been very clear about and wer...

Seeing across the country, these national -- this is going to be -- what republicans want to do is a national ban. these are coming from republican legislators. so, we have been fighting, democrats have been fighting tooth and nail to protect womens rights, womens reproductive rights, and were going to continue to do that. the president took bold actions on the day that decision was made. hes going to continue to speak to that, continue to make sure what you heard tonight, continue to have those...

The president can use executive authority on some things, but he is going to be limited overall in terms of codifying roe. >> i mentioned joe manchin not budging on the filibuster, but he has budged on other things in recent days. you and i am spoken about joe manchin in build back better many times on this show. in fact, we last book about it i believe was back in january. here is what you said then. have a listen. >> we are going to get something done on build back better, and i think to manch...

How can they, how do they justify that veterans that theyd vote against a bill like that? >> its sheer vindictiveness, pettiness, hypocrisy. you expect that at times from the republicans, but not over veterans. i, mean thats whats so sad, these are people who have defended the united states, they rest their own lives, theyve been injured, have health issues because of that. youre playing politics because you dont want to give the democrats a win. ted cruz has been so hypocritical on this, he vot...

I think indulging in these parlor games is counterproductive. we have midterms coming up that are unbelievably important. we have to hold the senate. and hopefully add at least two seats to it. i believe we can do that. have to hold the house and thats the only way well do things like codifying roe. doing stuff on climate that we absolutely need to do. look how just scorching hot it is around the world. we have to get stuff done, we need to elect democrats to the senate, to the house, governors,...

Birth control, last week we did earlier in the week we did marriage equality and protecting interracial marriage. >> i want to get to that specific last bill you mentioned in a moment. to your point about essentially trying to codify roe, to codify the right to travel, et cetera, on that point, youre a lawyer, another esteemed legal professor victoria norris at georgetown wrote this about democratic efforts and talking points about codifying roe, she said drafters of any federal roe protection m...

Assigned my name to such a thing. i think its deeply offensive. also not true. nothing anybody is asking for that is not a step, that has not been a mainstream democratic position, since the clinton administration. people want access to abortion. its okay to ask for what you want. to dismiss this as sort of out of touch activism, is incorrect. but these are the people that you need. you need us. we are -- asking for crazy things, like codifying roe at the other level. that is not crazy. he needs...