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Wonderful statement of principles. conservative democrats joe manchin and krysten sinema came down against any filibuster changes without buy in from the same republicans that blocked not one or two but three efforts to even debate voting rights. and today without mentioning any senators by name, president biden laid out the stakes for every single one of them. >> history has never been kind to those who sided with voter suppression over voters rights, so i ask every elected official in america ...

Mike pence. you have the most experienced politician in america. i think outside of mitch mcconnell he has done it longer than anybody else in america. he knows about the presidents cachet, he knows how much prestige you can have and push and leverage that you can retain, juice properly. build back better blew up in his face. he went in there never even asked for of the vote. then when he decided voting reform would be an issue. he actually showed up at the white house after senator sinema alrea...

Scenario. the u.s. lead negotiaor said, well not allow anyone to slam closed natos open-door policy which is always been central. jake sullivan said washington believers the tlets of invasion is very real. i dono -- i dont know how if anyone can agree there is no reason to escalate when the troops at the border is about 100,000 of them. >> the big debate is winning the troops there for leverage. thats the hope. yesterday it seems to be the russians signals. i am not suggesting that we

To reach an agreement and the government accuses the taliban of using violence as leverage, but the taliban deny involvement. the fear is that if these targeted killings continue, the democratic gains of the last 20 years could all be lost. this school, for children with learning difficulties, was born out of tragedy. it was opened in the name of fatima �*natasha khalil, a human rights activist. aged 2a, she was targeted and killed.

That makes it very difficult to imagine that there will be meaningful constraint on what states do throughout this decade, to make it tougher to vote, tightening the tourniquet. >> ron, youve covered our politics and been such an astute watcher of it for so long. youve looked at demographics and how those have shifted for republicans, for democrats, throughout. why do you think democrats are doing this right now? i mean, in some ways, i wonder, why didnt president biden do this right out of the ...

They put it this way, its rare for a president to be at odds with republicans, moderate democrats and liberal democrats all at the same time. and theres where biden is right now. im wondering kind of, you know, what he is facing in this moment now. >> yeah. this is what happens when you have basically a zero-seat majority in the senate. it has to be done with a tie-breaking vote. and when you have a very, very narrow majority in the house and on top of that, i mean, this is a president going int...

Really are quite impotent. the military option, the direct deployment of u.s. forces to ukraine has been taken clearly off the table by president biden early in this conflict. so we dont have that major piece of leverage against vladimir putin. and i just think that its looking clearer and clearer that the russian president is not particularly intimidated by this massive sanctions, you know, package that we are putting together with our european allies. probably not with total unity. look, sanct...

Diplomacy. so i think theyre making that case. and, look, marc and i actually dont disagree on this point, that strong economic sanctions and strong and very clear ramifications are critical. but when you look at something like nord 2, if we can go ahead and sanction it now to the bill that senator ernst was referencing and take away our leverage in this, right now the pipeline isnt operational. so putin doesnt have any if leverage with it. we do. and so if we sanction it now, we lose our levera...

Dont forget, it shares a 7,000 kilometre border with kazakhstan. it has been a success story in central asia and it simply cannot afford this sort of instability there. moreover, bearing in mind conflicts in belarus and on its otherflank with ukraine, where it has amassed on its border 100,000 troops. but having moved into kazakhstan now, russia will most likely seek to turn this situation to its advantage, insofar as that is possible. we see an increased resolve from russia to support their cli...

Option, restricting this to just voting rights, but in my heart, i believe in the talking filibuster because we want to retain the leverage of the minority. the senate is a better place, tht the point my colleagues from west virginia make and i agree, when the minority has leverage to be heard, to negotiate for amendments, to negotiate for a compromise, to slow down so the press and public and experts can evaluate a bill and give us information on it. all of that is achieved with the talking fil...