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Try to convince your democratic colleagues to support changing senate rules and if so, is that moving the nooelds needle at all? >> there is a full-court press. we are working as you speak, meetings taking place. ive been in touch with my colleagues over this weekend, and i have been in contact with the two senators who have gotten the most attention. so yes, theres a lot of work still being done. its clear to me that we have a real uphill battle in getting the votes we need to modify ways we ta...

Place today. yes we are. there are more cases. more therapeutics. we have vaccines out there. nothing that is thrown at this virus has worked. maybe we have to live with it. i know we are going to be talking about that later in the show. but the whole notion of anyone saying that they could defeat the virus, none of you guys are god. you have no authority in your hands to stop this. so yes we have to live with the spirit so yes, stop the appeals. stop the federal mandates. stop any mandate, beca...

Legislation. they are expected to vote against chuck schumers plan which is not to get rid of the filibuster but change the rule on it for this one piece of legislation. so if those two democrats hold the line in tonights vote, they keep the rules as is, it would be the first time either -- against the presidents agenda. president biden wants the rules changed. in some ways this is an exercise for the majority of the democratic party to shine a light on the obstacles to voting rights as well as ...

Issue here where she drew her service weapon rather than that taser. you have to wonder whether this is an officer who took her proficiency very poor in her own mind, and she had more practice, more muscle memory. again, well never know, but you can bet there are police officers around the country who will be focused on training and ensuring that before an officer wa walks out of roll call and hits the streets that they need to know how to operate the weapons on their tool belt, poppy. >> and wh...

Debating is bipartisan everywhere but in the u.s. senate. >> right. >> there was just a poll released today, over 60% of the american people want easy mail-in voting. they want absentee voting. they want the election day to be a holiday. they support all the provisions of the bill that were talking about. these are democrats and republicans. but its a totally partisan effort here in the senate to block it and nicolle, i got to tell you a story. in 1891, in the winter of 1891, the house of repres...

Sources who have spoken to trump about 2024, revealing he has been trashing florida governor ron desantis, who has been eyed as a possible contender for the gop nomination, saying desantis has no chance against him in a potential showdown. trumps lies made more dangerous by his parties work behind the scenes. state by state assaulting a score tenet of any democracy, the right to vote, using unfounded claims of election fraud to roll back voting rights piece by piece. senate majority leader chuck...

Manchin is today, and kierstin cinema needed to do, and because of the way that the institution is performing, and fast forward nine years later, it is exactly what the senate is debating, and trying to pass through the sweeping reform laws as the democrats are trying to do. and it is interesting to hear schumer and reid. reid elevated schumer through the reins of the caucus, and after reid announced he would retire, it was reid who decided that he would elevate schumer to succeed him in the pos...

President biden. should some frustration be aimed at senator manchin, for example? is there enough frustration to go around, and how do you respond to the senator from west virginia. >> part of how i respond is part of who hes arguing with and debating is himself. a few years ago, he believed you could have changed to the filibuster rule. and thats the problem with joe manchin. hes so incredibly inconsistent. sometimes its hard to -- earlier this week, he was talking about how the filibuster has...

Right all the time, you cant really have democracy and history teaches you that. but i think theres another point which has to do with the future. much as its right for you and i to be talking about the scenarios by which this can all unravel, its also very important to make the point that a working democracy is going to deliver a much better future. its going to represent us. its going to deal with the problems that are ahead of us. its going to make sure that this country continues. its going ...

A lot of scratch for a public servant making less than six digits for three decades. so how did she become so rich? as usual in washington, this was a family affair. her husband paul is a businessman who may enjoy a little pillow talk with his wife, the speaker of the house. paul pelosi sr. has had a history of perfectly timed stock trades while his wife has been running the peoples house. in march of last year he pulled off a $2 million microsoft trade just two weeks before the company got a $2...