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The supreme court or the clear miscalculation to understand senator sinemas and manchins position were seeing the collapse of the biden presidency. it is in the interest of every american, democrat, republican, to have a strong, sharp, thoughtful president but thats clearly not what we have right now. the president seems too weak to tell pelosi and schumer to focus on the urgent needs of the moment. inflation, immigration, crime. they seem afraid of some of the fringe elements in their own party...

Means that chuck schumer has given up on private persuasion. and that is what it means when joe biden said today, im tired of being quiet. president biden and senator schumer are now asking for public pressure on joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. >> so i ask every elected official in america, how do you want to be remembered? consequence moments in history, they present a choice. do you want to be the side of dr. king or george wallace? do you want to be on the said of side of john lewis or bull c...

Also to lower costs for americans across the country. >> dana: one thing thats baffling is they continue to run into these roadblocks they knew they would lose this week. they wont stop now. schumer will keep everyone next week to do that. when you talk to the people of wisconsin what is their greatest frustration or worry about where the country is at the moment? it is not just the right wing saying theyre concerned. you have columnists saying it today. >> i do think that botched efforts on cov...

Treat starting saturday youll need photo id before heading out if we apply the democrat voting right argument that is worse than voter suppression that is extrajudicial house arrest for black people, time to defend the department of justice civil rights to arrest bowser. there is a lie about drop boxes lawmakers taking them off the street when they were putting them on the streets. in 2019 drop boxes were completely illegal in georgia now there enshrined in law, there is a lie about mailing voti...

Desantis. also, republicans who have been speaking out against the big lie. in fact, in a phone interview with npr, the man from mar-a-lago said it is an advantage to keep talking about 2020, even as he continued spreading more lies about it. that is, until he was confronted with one too many facts and hung up. >> why is it that you think that the vast majority of your allies in the united states senate are not standing behind you? we did have that statement by mike rounds. >> because mitch mcco...

Worth. >> i mean, had this come up in the normal course. had this been any kind of policy bill. any kind of spending bill. i think that you can count on history sort of steam rolling over it with time. it is just that this voting right, the january 6th attack last, year the clear and present danger to the very fundamentals of american democracy, the example of what is happening in all of the, states and the yearlong fight about whether or not democratic going to do something about it, the spotli...

White house does not want an off ramp with some moderate approach. they want an all or nothing on this. and theyre trying to make the big lie as theyve now adopted that language referring to president trumps actions on the election as one of their tools. >> garrett haake, let me pose the question to you that we posed at the top. what is chuck schumer, but ill alter the question a little bit. what is chuck schumers end game here? >> i wish i could tell you, chuck. this is the challenge of reporti...

Beyond the infrastructure package. >> now, lets talk about that shift in voting rights, that you mentioned. obviously, republicans came out and denounced it but if manchin and schumer and others are not on board, where is this going with the filibuster? >> its hard to see without a change in manchin and sinemas position, saying this is my absolute preference. not redline, my absolute preference. kind of a funny wording there. hopefully at some point it comes around once its clear that republican...

Calling it sudden and inexplicable, and we will put this up on the screen between schumer and manchin, you can say that the top of the letter. on top line at $1.5 trillion and of the bottom of the letter, senator manchin does not guarantee he will vote for the final reconciliation legislation if it exceeds the conditions outlined in this agreement. but they knew this back in july. >> harris: they know it back in july and hes been telling them ever sense and even moved off the number a little bit...

The holidays they were expressing their frustration toss me privately that they think that president biden needs to do more on voting rights, more on the rules change and including vice president kamala harris who this is supposed to be one of her issues and so they are expecting a lot from the white house on this issue. now, as far as if this is just going to be a two-week blip where theyre going to focus on this issue, we will wait to see, but schumer did indicate in his letter to his colleagu...