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It is about the country. people have to look at how we got to january 6 and why dont we want to fix it. >> are you going to get the republicans to vote for -- >> i hope. >> have you talked to republicans? >> i talk to everybody. you know that basically murkowski signed on to the john lewis act with me. so that is the bottom line. you cant give up on this stuff. hi, everyone. im jason johnson in for nicolle wallace. it is 5:00 in new york as american democracy hangs in the balance. senator joe ...

Not even close. we did anwr, which they have color excluded thanks to murkowski in alaska. what we did was amazing but i was under siege. some people say, gee -- under siege from day one. >> sean: i think youre still under siege, but thank you for spending time with us. >> president trump: i agree with you. i agree. >> sean: we appreciate you being with us. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham, only five seconds late, i tried hard. >> appreciate you being with us, let not your heart be...

Not even close. we did and mark, which they already excluded thanks to murkowski in alaska, what wee done was amazing, but i was under siege, so you know, some people said, gee, he wasnt very -- >> sean: got to run -- >> mr. trump: under siege from day one, sean. >> sean: i think you are still under siege. >> mr. trump: i agree with you. >> sean: we appreciate you being with us. all right, let not your heart be troubled, lauren graham, only five seconds late, i tried hard. >> laura: all right, s...

Thats what im talking about. tonight, the senate voted to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson to sit on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit, often regarded as the second-highest court in the land. three republican senators, graham, collins, and murkowski, joined all-50 democrats in elevating judge jackson formerly held by the attorney general merrick garland. jackson becomes the first appeals court judge of bidens presidency, and only the ninth african-american woman to ever serve a...

Murkowski says H.R. 1 is ‘overwhelming and all-encompassing’ but wants to address ‘extraordinarily limited and restricted’ mail voting in some states.

>> bipartisan group of 10 senators come to agreement on infrastructure package, gop senators, rodney, collins, murkowski, cinema, tester on a bill that includes $579 billion in spending, over 8 years. no tax hikes in this plan. todd: a little hypocrisy friday. >> officials took 50,$000 to help needy kids who struggle to get to school to hire nicole hannah jones when she told students and faculty what we call american history is weight history. she leaves with the 1619 project, the new york times...

Kept from influencing the system with their votes. they should be able to use the system, not be sacrificed so that republicans can abuse it. murkowski, the lone gop senator working with manchin to pass the john lewis voting rights act, says its going to be a challenge to get nine others in her party to break a filibuster. of course mcconnell says the bill wont have his vote. but listen to why. >> what theyre trying to do directly through hr 1, they would try to achieve indirectly through this r...

Murkowski, the lone gop senator working with manchin to pass the john lewis voting rights act, says its going to be a challenge to get nine others in her party to break a filibuster. of course mcconnell says the bill wont have his vote. but listen to why. >> what theyre trying to do directly through hr 1, they would try to achieve indirectly through this rewrite of the voting rights act. its against the law to discriminate in voting on the basis of race already. and so i think its unnecessary. >...

>> so back with us again tonight, jason johnson, contributor, professor at morgan state university and a.b. stoddard, editor and columnist for real clear politics. jason, ill give you this dramatic reading from eugene robinson. unless manchin changes his position on the filibuster ten republican senators woufr to cross the aisle and join with the democrats. so far there is one, senator murkowski. the other nine must be in some parallel dimension visible only to manchin where all the tooth fairie...

You know, corporate money has a very, very tight grip on both parties. and i think that that has, has to do with the calculus in the situation that people arent really discussing enough. >> yeah. its a very good point. i mean, bracket for a second my own feeling about like, what the roberts court would do with the dark money provisions of hr-1, a road, a bridge to cross in the future, but its striking to me. i want your reaction to this. in some ways, right, mcconnell hates that part. republican...