Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC's "Katy Tur Reports" that if the Democrats win majorities in Congress and the White House, they will ditch the filibuster to legalize abortion nationwide. | Clips
not seeking reelection this year, and he just launch a new group with his daughter called americans to get gather former republican ohio senator rob portman is working on his portman center for policy solutions at the university of cincinnati. now i spoke with both lawmakers after moderating a panel with them at the university of chicago's institute of politics they had tough words for their parties and the top of their tickets but we began by talking about the changing makeup in views of the senate gop, such as over ukraine portman, the staunch advocate, was replaced by republican senator jd vance, who is fiercely opposed we agree in a lot, we disregard some. and one is ukraine and we have a strong disagreement there, but i have a disagreement with other colleagues to on that just not just jd, there are more republicans now saying, let's allow vladimir putin to have his way and the consequences of that would be disastrous for our national security. >> we talked senators about just the changing nature the are you concerned that the moderates are being dropped out of your party what i'm really concerned about is if we lose the filibuster, you won't
who is fiercely opposed we agree in a lot. we just again, some& one is ukraine and we have a strong disagreement there, but i haven't disagreement with other colleagues to just not just jd. there are more republicans now saying, let's allow vladimir putin to have his way. and the consequences of that would be disastrous for our national security. >> we talked senators about just the changing nature trump the center. are you concerned that the moderates are being dropped out of your party? >> what i'm really concerned about is if we lose the filibuster, you won't create any new moderns. you will not have a middle at all. it'll be swinging from the left and the right. that's not who america is. that probably scares me more than anything every one of us should be ashamed of what we're, what we're living through now and 118th congress, every congress up until this 118th congress is basically produced about 500 bills that we could work on and agree on and passed some form of a piece of legislation 500 to five, 20 we've only passed 69 bills. >> when you look at this this
filibuster so that we can pass voting rights rights, so we can codify abortion rights and those critical issues. i believe this is possible and it is what will motivate the base to actually fight for something, be a party a proposition and not just a party of opposition. >> that is a debate that you and i can have. >> lucky you, michael steele. we want to talk about donald trump's criminal trial and hell media is having a real world impact on a. this is "the weekend" on msnbc. ♪ music ♪ ♪ unnecessary action hero! ♪ ♪ unnecessary. ♪ was that necessary? no. neither is missing your daughter's competition to do payroll. with paycom, employees do their own payroll so you don't have to miss your daughter's big day.
those things aren't on there. we are talking about stopping the privatization of medicare and expanding medicare benefits to include dental, vision and hearing. my signature bill of medicare for all is not on there because we know that under this president and the situation we are in, we probably can't achieve it. the things on this agenda are achievable and we can go to people and say, look how much we did. we didn't get everything done. but this is the next thing on the page. progressives with build back better, the universal childcare, that investment in housing, a huge issue. the comprehensive immigration reform. some advancing justice components of this. these were all things teed up by almost the entirety of the democratic caucus with the exception of a couple of senators, democratic senators. that is part of the reason it didn't pass because of the filibuster. you will see in the agenda that one of the things we tackle is making democracy work which means not just changing the rulers but changing the rules. we have to get rid of that
cloture which is how you cut off the filibuster you file cloture today bite rule that must ripen for a day. so send it be the intervening day and the earliest you could consider it would be monday. by what they consider it monday? well, monday is passover chuck schumer the majority leader is jewish they usually take off for passover. so tuesday it seems to be the rape day here when the senate would consider and align out. keep in mind when the senate passed the original bill back in february they got more than 70 votes for this for this is a predawn boat on a tuesday morning it was about 5:14 a.m. in the morning when they passed that bill. they have more than 60 votes to overcome their filibusters but hapyou have to the house and see in line at one stage because the senate passed its version the houses on something completely different here and now they are bringing something completely different back but again wedding all four of these bills together is the easier way to do it. the house of representatives is
this on tuesday afternoon. there is a filibuster and play here. not to get onto the bill a lot of times you bills in house of representatives you have to overcome one filibuster just to put the bill on the floor that takes 60 votes and then 60 votes on the backend. the way this was structured between the house of representatives this is a call parliamentary ping-pong. it is a message between the two houses. the house -- like something has been pinned over from the house to the senate et cetera. they will pong this to the senate and the senate will take that out. of one a potential filibuster there and maybe structure things so they are able to it all in one fell swoop and subject to final passage to a 60 vote threshold pretty wise that important? you need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. why not send it over right now? even if they got the bill today in the senate, it takes a bite rule if you do things by the books and less you get all 100 senators to agree, you have to file -- this gives the weeds a little but it's very important,
yet the senate needs to align with the house on tuesday. the senate must clear a filibuster but a similar plan passed the senate with 70 votes over the winter. jon: chad pergram i suppose a marjorie taylor greene could still bring forward that motion to vacate, right? >> it is still in play she could bring it up or a michael johnson or one of its allies could bring it up and try to force the boat and euthanize this once and for good. jon: with that be interesting? chad pergram from the drum munch on capitol hill thank you. president biden spending his weekend and delaware as he prices house lawmakers for passing the $95 billion foreign aid package. lulucas at thomason's white life at the white house with more. >> quickset is right president biden hitting the house of representatives or pass any foreign aid bill the white house quick to release a statement after swift passage this afternoon at writing quote that
them are coming home. here's bill barr today. >> given two bad choices i think it's my duty to pick the person i think would do the least harm to the country and in my mind i will vote the republican ticket. the real danger to democracy, as i say, is the progressive agenda. and while trump -- and i said trump may be playing russian roulette, but continuation of the biden administration is national suicide. >> bret: and we'll see if there are more, guy. but that's an interesting statement from bill barr. >> yeah and our colleague here marc thiessen a speech writer for president george w. bush he made a similar case on my radio show yesterday if you look at threat to institutions and democracy, the greater threat is on the left. he makes the case that if you look at the way they go after the supreme court. the filibuster and other things that they have in their sights that, would do a lot more damage and the big difference being when trump offers different affronts to the system, he is