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Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. Wh...

because it is for the people. we have to make sure that we protect it at home. >> laura: in the swamp defense. didnt congress just pass a stock sales ban? no. >> we have a statement criticizing the democratic leadership for not calling up the stock bill. >> im strictly focused on winning the next election. i dont know what her statement is. >> [question inaudible] >> you have to have the votes to bring it up. well see. we dont go from one day to the next. >> laura: i have to call pa...

Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. Wh...

Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. Wh...

Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. Wh...

Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. Wh...

Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. Wh...

So senator shotz being out for covid, there is no proxy system for him to do so. >> right, the united states has taken no recognition of the pandemic. getting them to work things out, we saw today, is quite difficult. they cannot force all these people into the same room to vote. >> theyre only a large, powerful, collective group of lots of octegenarians. why would they need to take notice of this particular respiratory illness? >> i think we could go on and on with the oddities of the united st...

Second time. we miss this time, as long as i have a breath in me, as long as im in the white house, as long as im engaged at all, im going to be fighting to change the way these legislatures have moved it. >> columnist for the "washington post," msnbc political analyst. also norm orenstein. norm, let me begin with you as our congressional scholar. im not going to bother you with another question. norm, what was your reaction to all of it? >> i was stunned today, not just by the speech itself, la...

Call votes tonight -- >> as expected, 52-48, which is to say 48 democrats voted to change the rules of the senate tonight in this one instance for this one piece of legislation on voting rights. only 48 democrats voted to do that. 52 votes in favor of preserving the rules. those two democratic votes in favor of preserving the rules came from joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. joining us now, e.j. dionne, columnist for the "washington post" and senior fellow with the brookings inside stoougs. norm o...