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Rules to keep voting rights protected through legislation in the united states senate. eyes open, heads up. busy time. now time for "the last word" with lawrence odonnell. >> good evening. news breaking during your hour includes in from politico about senator sinema meeting with a small group of senate democrats on rules changes this evening in the lbj room in the capitol. this is possible indication that the public pressure that both joe biden and chuck schumer put on senators manchin and sinem...

For the last word with lawrence odonnell. >> good evening rachel. whos breaking during this hour, includes us from politico about senator sinema, meeting with a small group of senate democrats on rules changes this evening. in the lbj room, in the capital. this is possible indication that the public pressure that both joe biden and judge schumer put on senators manchin and sinema today, might be nudging them a bit. the report says that the senators in this meeting, in addition to sinema were, ti...

9:00 p.m. on the east coast. in order to prevent the shutdown of the federal government, the senate has to pszass a bill tha funds the government by midnight. well, one hour from now at 10:00 p.m. eastern, they have scheduled a vote on that and nobody knows how that vote is going to go by our last informal count, it still looked like they might not even be close but here is the thing, just in the past few minutes, all of the senators on the democratic side have gone into an all hands on deck mee...

Then the backlash started. by 1981, ronald reagans government was fighting a war on the war on poverty." hes right. mocking and deriding and campaigning against programs to fight poverty was a big part of how ronald reagan got elected. and it was central to the whole idea of his presidency. in terms of domestic policy. >> my friends, some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty. and poverty won. >> poverty won. we lost. we should stop fighting. marco rubio surely wants to be se...

Comes to the issue of poverty and how to end it. >> it is interesting, both parties are embracing lbjs pledge because democrats are going to stage a number of demonstrations too today. it would be nice if republicans and democrats would kind of get together but that wont happen. >> they are both embracing the pledge. they definitely have different points of view on whether or not lbjs programs worked. marco rubio, he is going to give a big speech in the lbj room. before he was president, he was ...

When they put us in the lbj room, lyndon johnsons old office to wait for the start of our interview, i was trying to seem bla se, but it is impossible particularly when i realize theres something strange going on in the ceiling of that office. i could not stop myself from starting to take pictures of the ceiling as if i was straight off the tour bus. they started painting the ceiling of the lbj room in the 1850s before it was the lbj room, before they at the time thought it would hold the senate...

Today. not new but i did not know before today it existed. when you are a civics dork, one of the great things about coming to d.c. is even when you are working its impossible not to be a tourist. producer julia nutter and i were on the train. i was trying to get work done. but oh, my god, theres a member of congress right over there which for a civics dork is so exciting in a schoolhouse rock sort of way i couldnt do the crossword done on the train. then going into the capitol building its like...

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