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Time again. frequently, we voted in over 60% levels on fairly oppressive policies, like a 15 dollar minimum wage, restoring voting rights to felons. we do it over and over again in florida. well do it again, and abortion will be protected in the state. >> what should we in the rest of the country being looking at for milestones in terms of now and november. what are the things that are most important that have been in the near and term future for this effort? >> our immediate hurdle, the last hu...

Manchin of west virginia, and it any hope of filibuster reform, who have prevented democrats from pursuing what president bidens most ambitious agenda, by requiring the support of ten republicans for most legislation. sinema also dramatically weakened the initial biden proposal, which was basically shared by all democrats to allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. it was extremely popular with just about everyone except rich pharmaceutical executives. she killed another effort to c...

Trying to make it seem like, you know, neo-liberal economics works, when it doesnt. i think that you go into most parts of the country, and people want a 15 dollar minimum wage, the people who are out of touch are the republican senators who do not want to move that forward. and similarly, with universal health care, with so many of the things that we talk about, but we do have to go and listen, and we do have to go and make sure that everybody understands. we are open to everybody being -- ever...

Hoping for. and occasionally, the vote-a-rama does produce some real revelations. there was a voter in a revote aroma two or three cycles ago that showed that the democrats did not have the votes for the 15 dollar minimum wage. they had seven democrats vote with the republicans against. thats why can we produce some real news. the key is, at the end of, it if the democrats all stick together, they can move the bill probably sunday morning, maybe monday, depending on how long it takes. and then s...

And democrats are successful. how do you see the process for extending the supreme court as you said? >> its like every other movement that went from, you know, something considered very difficult or, something considered unusual becomes typical. and becomes part of the discourse, and that moves, and then it moves again. look at the fight for marriage equality. in the space of less than a decade, went from something a lot of political servers thought was impossible to becoming the actual law of ...

Planet needs. fourth, by voting now youll be standing up for a governor who protects workers, rather than one who believes they shouldnt be. i cant believe this guy. there shouldnt be a minimum wage? the leading republican candidate, thinks that minimum wage should be zero. look, working people have taken on the law, we need leaders like gavin who respect them. hear them, fight for them, to me its pretty basic. if youre working a 40 hour week. you should not be living in poverty. thats why i sup...

Garrett, i think we have your audio back. you want to finish that thought? >> no. i associate myself with the comments from the gentleman from politico. i think the minimum wage vote is really good way of looking at this, where all democrats appear to be on the same page about one of these big progressive priorities but when the rubber hits the road, 10 to 12 not happy with it and perhaps worried used against them in campaign ads going forward. i think a big, giant infrastructure bill that will ...

Reporters in the basement like garrett is what this deal and other deals look like. right? that is something very clear. at some point, they are not to make clear how they stand on a lot of these issues and the first peek we got of this is when the 15 dollar minimum wage vote happened and a lot of centrist democrats and independents who voted against it and surprised by that. some of the people are the same folks who also dont want to go through reconciliation and dont want to get rid of the fil...

Socialized. medicare going broke in less than 12 years. take that nationwide. earned income tax credit. thats taking from wealthier people who bare the large burden of paying taxes and creating people who dont pay any tax which is half of the people in the nation but increasing that number to people who get money back from the government. 15 dollar minimum wage. >> its democratic social limit. >> theres twelve democrats, where president trump won and ten that he won. well see what happens. new c...

I own a bank and i see trouble. he has always been a little bit of an outlier and argued in the past for 15 dollar minimum wage. you dont see a lot of zillionaires arguing for that. he says it would be in the interest of the rich to reduce some of this inequality. he says we, like our customers, rich and our employees poor doesnt make much sense. he uses the henry ford example. look at your workers as customers. and he says in here that revolutions like bankruptcy come slowly and suddenly. you t...