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will commit additional acts of violence, its more a question of when. welcome to thursday. this is "meet the press daily." im chuck todd. six asian women are dead when gunman aaron long went on a two-county rampage targeting spas in the area. while a motive has not yet been determined, the reality is this happened to have happened during a massive rise in asian american violence in this nation. a year after the prior administration referred to the pandemic as the china virus or the k...

of korean descent. at this time, the motive, however, is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. a 21-year-old suspect is now in custody. theres a picture there. security is ramping up in other asian communities as a precaution. secretary of state antony blinken, who was in south korea, gave this message just moments ago. >> horrified by this violence which has no place in america or anywhere. we will stand up for the right of our fellow americans, korean america...

Theres a john lewis voting rights act. one bill that the democrats want to pass. it would restore protections in the voting rights action that protects against voter suppression and then theres expanding voting access and making election day a federal holiday, election day. the democrats have these proposals. the question is if this president gives this speech today and the math does not change, is there a fallback plan, or is this all or nothing? >> right. to this point it seems kind of all or ...

Saying air force one comes to our district. i thought thats a really extreme. this person we are talking about the event. stacey abrams. this is an event custom made for stacey abrams. >> i dont know if its that. >> what is it? >> i would say the elements is there for one to speculate. i do know some of the activist groups on the ground have said theyre boycotting this not to happen. some are frustrated that it took joe biden this long to come out and strongly deal with the filibuster question a...

50 democrats are signed on to the exact details of what we need to protect the right of every american citizen to vote and to get that vote counted. to get rid of gerrymandering and beat back dark money. all 50 of us are there. we just got to make it across the filibuster question. there are a lot of different ways we can do that. keep in mind, joy, the united states congress just created an exception to the filibuster. >> they did. >> literally in the last two days when we all said, oh, yeah. w...

Midterm elections and into the future. some in the senate recognize do or die nature of the moment. >> if i have to choose between democracy and a senate rule, thats a pretty easy call i think. i think this issue is so tran senn dent that it deserves a solution because otherwise, you know, were sunk. this democracy is fragile and its under attack. >> two of his democratic colleagues in the senate, manchin and sinema, dont see it that way. they remain opposed to eliminated or even carving out cer...

Year, which is to get vaccinated. and hes still battling conspiracy theories. hes still battling distrust from the public. we saw that deadlines were missed over the summer in terms of vaccination goals. and so people are honestly just tired at this moment. fortunately we have the fda approval of the vaccine. one of the vaccines, which hopefully will support people going out and getting vaccinated. but right now morale is just really low around this issue. and so when he gives this speech, he ha...

Through on the for the people act. so whatever happens in this first vote, on tuesday, theyve got to keep moving forward. >> can i ask you to weigh in on the filibuster question, where you stand on that? >> i dont think we should have a filibuster in this country. its nowhere written in the constitution. its holding up important legislation. i was watching your earlier segment about the infrastructure bill, economic packages that can make it a lot easier for people to find better jobs that pay h...

I think were going to see the differences being aired in real time. with his fellow democratic senators. which for them at least right now is a step forward at least towards getting to that republican filibuster and then taking it from there. >> so, jackie, i mean, one thing that also surfaced this week, there was some leaked audio of joe manchin talking to a group of donors where he did address the filibuster question. and seemed to express some openness to potentially changing it which is, of ...

Employers can hire up. will that push prices up. >> this brings us back to the filibuster question. and the ways in which you have -- part of the problem is look, the first rescue plan wasnt paid for. thats easier sell than this. you have to raise taxes. including corporate. and guess what, corporate america is not like yes, please. they are working over congress to not do that. its easier to tax cut than raise them. you have the threshold that republicans can wield in a add venn ta jous way. >>...