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I mean to an outside observer, most house republicans look like, you know, pretty strong trump supporters. over half of them voted not to certify joe bidens win. so im curious, based on your reporting is there a set of policy issues or is it just about fealty to donald trump and the big lie? >> youre absolutely right. theres a thin line between a true maga republican and all of the other republicans who do tend to fall in line with president trump. these are people who you go on their social med...

A compromise with that pressure point of mlk day building towards that, and its now apparent that there wont be, but with that gamble they are now faced with that moment where theres frustration not just with the holdout senators but with the president and party leadership themselves. >> were about to hear from the black caucus, members of the king family who are most mad at those two senators. there may be more tomorrow but those senators were adamant about not creating a carve out. listen to j...

Filibuster as soon as 2025 to stop republicans from imposing even harsher voting restrictions? >> look, no, she is not right about that. we just got around the filibuster to raise the debt limit. why? because we dont want to put the full faith and credit of the united states at risk. no one has asked her to eliminate the filibuster. the filibuster is there for all of these issues that may be policy issues, but when it comes to the constitution of the united states of america, no one person sitti...

That you allow the same kind of reconciliation of constitutional rights that you allow on budgetary issues. thats all. if you want to have the fill bser in order to bring policy issues forward and have a debate on the policy issues, then thats fine. but not my constitutional rights. and then there another thing. i asked people to look at the history of the 15th amendment and see how that was passed. it was passed on the party line vote. and for mr. manchin to tell me that a vote is not credible ...

And they would just be nasty and mean to them on policy issues. harry never forgot where he came from, and he was always looking out for the little guy, and quite frankly, i want to tell you a quick story if i can. i dont want to take up too many time. >> absolutely, go ahead. >> an illinois resident had played in the negro league and he came to me one day and pointed out that the negro league players in the days of segregation when blacks could not play baseball in the major league teams, but h...

Information about him, generating this level of hatred against him from their supporters, and then they come before the senate committee and say, oh, people really dont like you, dr. fauci, when theyre the ones that are generating all of this hatred. its completely irresponsible. i dont blame dr. fauci for getting frustrated. here we are in the midst of a significant surge of covid caused by the omicron virus. we have important policy issues that we ought to be coming together and trying to reso...

Full faith and credit of the united states at risk. no one has asked her to eliminate the filibuster. the filibuster is there for all of these issues that may be policy issues, but when it comes to the constitution of the united states of america, no one person sitting downtown in the spa ought to be able to pick up the form and say you are going to put a hold on my ability to vote. i wish theyd stop that foolishness because if we do not protect the vote with everything that weve got, we will no...

Really in the current atmosphere. everybody is understandably extremely upset and as a result of that, people are going to be making decisions without necessarily thinking about policy issues, thinking about policy issues, thinking about policy issues, thinking about the parity of the next election. lets not forget, this will not suddenly change the government, this will not suddenly called a general election. this will remain a conservative government with a majority until 202a. were talking ab...

Same moral high horse he got on when georgia passed the election law -- >> most engaged on policy issues here at home but clear in our respect to human rights globally. >> john: he said we do in the have a selection in the host city or whether olympics are postponed or relocated. but if the i.o.c. chooses a city in a country that has a terrible human rights record, cant you as a corporation say you know what, we dont want any part of this? >> let me make this very, very clear to the people in no...

Has been really pointed in going after warren, talking about medicare for all and how you cant promise something to voters without saying how youre going to pay for it, we cant afford something like this, youre going to lose your doctors. but now going after biden who, in a lot of things, he agrees with biden on a lot of policy issues. this is his way of potentially moov moving up in the polls. >> hes been making the age argument. a lot of people, weve seen a bit of a trend at some of these bide...