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People act and the john lewis voter advancement act passed, and if that means ending the filibuster, then they have to be willing to do that. we have to send a strong message, whenever youre seeing voting rights being attacked, there has to be a strong message where there are consequences. you cant leverage with a party that is actually acting as an obstructionist, like the party that literally is trying to marginalize people from vote, yet were literally going to put aside the vote and the powe...

Out on facebook in support of the filibuster and putting pressure on manchin, there is nothing that you can convince me that manchin wont eventually give up in the carrot or the stick, we need the president to lean in, we need to have him to have an lbj moment and right now he is having a rutherford b. hayes moment who is the president who ended reconstruction by pulling the troops out and saying black folks, youre on your own and that is what it feels like from a president in spift the passiona...

>> you know, a couple of things. one, she was able to be open about the recommendations that women who are experts in this area are able to share. she was able to share some things shes doing in terms of being able to activate the white house, the different agencies and departments, to make this a core issue. there was an exchange of ideas around how we move this forward and it was very promising. >> latosha, yesterday you were part of the a peaceful demonstration in a senate office building. it...

President? what is the thinking here? >> thats a great question. president biden is saying we need transformational change. he said this is about working class americans who are trying to survive, who are struggling in the pandemic, who are trying to put their lives back together. and who need help from the federal government to step in to provide help when communities have been disproportionately impacted by some of the things we have done in our past including we talk about where highways went...

To turn out at higher rates than they have already been doing. i mean, i think people are first of all tired of having to save democracy all the time. well, now to your point earlier, democrats have unified control of the federal government. and can deliver on the promise of a multiracial democracy by simply passing voting rights legislation on a majority vote. right? so we have to try. this president can have an lbj moment where he makes multiracial democracy the singular project at this stage ...

Threat. and so what you hear from people is if its an existential threat, you have to be creative in the way you operate. you cant do it in the ole ways when the senate was nice and cozy and 100 white men who were kind of hanging out and they were all on the same page. i think you will see president biden be a lot more forceful and that will continue to push and push and push. and quickly matt mentioned lbj. one of the reasons lbj signed the civil rights act was because of people like martin lut...

Essence. for all americans. democratic congresswoman alexandria crosser cortez pointed out on twitter in response to this video of a new york city expressway that flooded from heavy rain the congresswoman said quote, im so glad the filibuster is here to fix this. oh, wait. cant wait. joining us now our christina gears as a professor political science at film university and jonathan alter columnist of the daily beast and a political analyst. thank you both for coming on the show this evening. chr...

Of the roadblocks a exist right now. >> is there any reasonable expectation that the president through powerful speeches, through highlighting this issue can move the votes in congress or is it more likely hell highlight there, there will be a legislative failure for the democrats on the issue and they hope to use it as a motivation tool? >> i think the latter is more likely to happen here. but in addition to speeches and in addition to showing this is a priority for him, there are also an incre...

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