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We got 50 votes. the republicans -- i think we should pay a little bit of attention to the fact that theres not one republican prepared to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry or the fossil fuel industry or the health insurance companies, you know, or the billionaires who want to continue to get their tax breaks and enjoy their loopholes. not one republican. but in truth that is the leverage that any one member of the democratic caucus has. look, i could go to chuck schumer, the majority lead...

That has not been true. theres the hard-fought freedom to go to work, study freely, move freely, rolled back very slowly over time. the problem is with many foreign journalists gone and many of us no longer keeping the spotlight on them, this is happening behind closed doors and happening without a lot of attention. the question i get from a lots of people who are still there is when is the u.s. going to start to use some of that leverage it said it would have on the ground, financial leverage, ...

As republicans did. so mcconnell took one step back as they came to the brink but i think this is the clearest example of how on so many issues, basically anything that cant be shoe horned into reconciliation, democrats particularly mansion and sinema are providing leverage to the point you can ask that question legitimately, what is running washington? the majority democrats or minority republicans? >> will this be enough time, ron, for democrats to get their act together and pass president bid...

Be what they, want full stop, 100 percent? or they will vote for the bill it all itll die? >> thats the threat, that is exactly the threat. the threat is, and i hope everyone understands this. we have 50 votes, through republicans, i think we should pay a little bit of attention to the fact that theres one propublica and repaired to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry, to the fossil fuel industry, or the health insurance companies, or the billionaires who want to continue to get their tax br...

Act to make sure that we provide child care, pre-k, home care, home and community based care, take on the climate crisis, address housing, make sure that we are addressing health care in the midst of still a health care crisis and of course immigration. these are all priorities of the progressive caucus that we are working now to get into the bill. >> walk us through, i mean how does that impact your working relationship with speaker pelosi? her public position was that you should have folded or...

Case that mitch mcconnell has now made. joe manchin isnt buying it. he made it clear hes not moving on the filibuster, and that means congress, the country, will be right back here in december, so where does that leave us? >> right. i mean, look, we will be right back here in december unless manchin -- manchin and soinema are providing mcconnell the leverage he is using to hold over our heads but not only democrats. none more important than voting rights. i think voting rights, victor, even befo...

Loopholes. not one republican. but in truth that is the leverage that any one member of the democratic caucus has. look, i could go to chuck schumer, the majority leader, and say, chuck, you know that i believe that our current health care system is totally dysfunctional, wasteful, expensive. we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. unless you put a medicare for all single pair program into reconciliation package, im not voting for it. i could do that tomorrow, rachel. but ...

>> thats exactly right. many republicans are still very much opposed to raising the debt limit. senator lindsey graham put out a statement yesterday to that effect. what mcconnell has done, hes offered exactly that, by punching the debt krooel big two months. the interesting thing here is it will give mcconnell increased leverage in december when well have a bunch of other deadlines in congress comes due, most notably, government funding. so while democrats were able to unhitch deadline this pas...

Thats not particularly unusual when republicans had unified control under bush, democrats did not provide many or in several cases any votes to raise the debt ceiling. the twist that mcconnell added was an oh, yeah, while i say the majority party has all the responsibility, well retain a veto in your attempt to raise the debt ceiling which democrats pointedly did not do under bush and under trump when they could have filler bustered raising the debt ceiling, they provided as many or more votes t...

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