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To the extent the legislative package includes voting rights, right, to the extent his priorities include -- anyway. the presidents evolution on this is important. >> the legislative package im referring to is the reconciliation bill which bypasses that whole 60 vote threshold. hes got to get it done. you dont get anything done after that, not a single thing, nothing moves through the senate after that, if you believe that 60 vote threshold in place. >> we will see, i mean, with senator manchin ...

And my plea for manchin and sinema would be simply that the reason that youre in the majority, the reason that you have this leverage is because people fought and died for these rights that apparently dont ring that alarm for you but ring that alarm for me. and i would hope they would get on board. >> david, do you want to respond? >> no. look, thats absolutely right. i was a little actually confused by his answer on voting rights because his initial answer was i couldnt -- i cant -- i dont want...

Whatever the president of the united states said, he did say that, you know, we still have these two presidents out there that are just in the wind on these issues. and my plea for manchin and sinema would be simply that the reason that youre in the majority, the reason that you have this leverage is because people fought and died for these rights that apparently dont ring that alarm for you but ring that alarm for me. and i would hope they would get onb onboard. >> david, do you want to respond...

Card, wolf. senator sinema does have a great deal of leverage tonight over president bidens domestic agenda. but in using that leverage, she is walking a tightrope with her own party. >> reporter: at the epicenter of a critical moment in president bidens term, wielding enormous power over whether the presidents massive domestic spending package is passed is a 45-year-old first-term senator whos even worn a purple wig and a shirt saying dangerous creature on the senate floor. and who sported a ri...

Today in the senate on the voting rights -- the vote that wouldnt even allow for a vote on voting rights, but angus king himself refuses to carry the word democrat beside his name when he runs in the state of maine. he is listed as an independent and an independent in the senate as has bernie sanders. >> yeah, so there is a model for him to do this on the other side of bernie sanders, if he wants to be an independent, and still caucus for the democrats because he feels closer than the republican...

Still has a foothold or some sin chronicity with democrats on at least 1.75 trillion, and as you noted, you know, the republicans are at zero or even a negative number on this front. so i dont know to what degree chuck schumer has to worry about losing his job, but clearly that if he did this, the symbolic value and just sort of the lev raj that he might have, the greater leverage that he might have in that row, and of course wed see a lot of stories about democrats being in disarray, and it wou...

Significant, eloquent, and important. and when angus king talks about the dangers toot of democracy, and the need to change the rules, and thank you angus for mentioning the idea -- that others are going to take it seriously. but if he switched to become independent, yeah theyre be a lot of stories, but its not gonna change anything. hes not gonna go to republicans. i would actually like to see lisa ruszkowski think about becoming our american repugnant pendant. if theres one senator in the sena...

Change anything. he is not going to go to the republicans. i actually would like to see lisa murkowski think about becoming an american independent. if theres one senator in the senate who has been dissed and treated badly by the party of which he or she is a part, it would be lisa murkowski, but shes not moving, and i doubt very much that angus king will move. hes getting some leverage here, and hell use it to his advantage, and hes sending a signal to the progressives in the house and senate. ...

Paid family leave. thats things people need this this moment, but they needed it before the pandemic. so now the democrats, its not just the urgency of the timetable of the midterm elections, but the fact that the american people need this stuff and they voted for it. so i think that joe manchin, every night he goes to bed, he needs to think about that mom thats at home thats not able to go back to work because they cant afford child care or thats worried about their elderly parent catching covi...

Lot of leverage, but shes using her leverage here. i have to say i -- i was with an arizona republican yesterday who kind of said in a not joking way but joking way, you know who the best republican we have out in arizona is, kyrsten sinema, because they feel like she is doing the bidding for them in a way that they never expected watching her path starting as a progressive in the state. >> were going to talk more about that later in the program, about her politics back home, but in terms of the...