Senator Bird News Today

A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. This is why he did that, why he won. The American People rejected more of this, more blood on politicians hand, the democrats want this issue politically more than they want a solution and that is a factor. If i was advising this president i would say tell Mitch Mcconnell to go nuclear. National security issue, simple majority of the senate for Border Security. Rob the president asking cong...

Opportunity to speed the transition to a new economy, new jobs. there should be electric vehicle manufacturing. west virginia has workers there have amazing skills in all kinds of sort of industrial aspects. manchin has an opportunity to do something about that right now. one of the political observers in west virginia that i talked to said that if this were senator bird whose seat manchin took who is a well-known west virginia senator for many decades that he would be taking advantage of this a...

Story about senator bird and mitch mcconnell today that i think is meaningful tonight. tell the audience the story. >> when bird was literally almost on his deathbed, the senate was considering the affordable care act. mcconnell insisted that, all six democrats -- that 60 democrats had to be that overcome the filibuster and move it along. he didnt say, as the protector of senators would do, look, we are not gonna wrestle him out of the hospital bed to come here. we will find a republican who wil...

Senator burned -- bird rather. well what is your sense of how joe manchin now lines up with senator bird or what he might mess in senator birds legacy? >> i think he misses very much what robert bird was all about. he thinks bird was dead set against any change and set of rules, and dead set in keeping the filibuster as it was. i knew him pretty well and talk to him about these issues many times. to follow on iris, he cared about the integrity of the senate and the norms of the senate. there wer...

The partisan sentiments mcconnell. >> if joe manchin can get bird on the phone, where do you think board would advise him of the situation? >> three experts, we all knew senator brunei one time or another. but i think senator bird would say, you have to work for something thats bipartisan. work for something that can get broad support that you believe is the right legislation. election support is full of integrity. you have to get it done. if it means changing the filibuster rule, i would favor ...

Joe manchin gets all seven of those republicans to support john lewis voting rights bill, he will not have the 60 votes necessary to pass that bill. senator manchin occupies a seat that was held by robert bird for 51 years, the longest serving senator in history. senator manchin often mentions his devotion to robert perez legacy as the senates leading parliamentary expert. robert bird was a master of senate rules but he was not religiously devoted to that robert or did not believe that senate ru...

But not impossible and the state will stand by him i think. i raise the point that senator bird evolved on the filibuster. he conducted he conducted one of the one of the most most shameful shameful filibusters of filibusters of all all-time against the time again civil rights act, but later he 64 civil rights act. changed. later, he chained his attitude. the nightmare for bird, was the idea of a paralyzed senate that can do the work of this country. consequently, he voted to nor the threshold i...

Anybody. thats it. all of them. all of them. the current democrats. the current ones, who, i dont know what they are, democrats, look, they need to -- as i said, bipartisanship for the sake of bipartisanship is empty. our democracy is on the line, right now. and thats what we need to be focused on. not just, well, this is what we are going to do. look, if you dont have a party that wont vote for, you know, a study on the insurrection. what makes you think they are going to stand up and do the ri...

Has done over his lifetime. if the record doesnt fit, where he says he is now and doesnt stand for, if the record shows that time and time again hes done certain things that are racist in nature, as is the fact with the president of the united states, when you listen to his -- look at his record, his words or repeat the basis, clearly he does not deny who he is and his actions prove it. i say then you have to look at the actions and the record and the work of the attorney general in that regard....

Committee get your assurance of a strong commitment. i also think its important to mr. jawarski that he read that commitment in the record and also be present when the commitment is made. and at that point, the chairman of the committee stops the proceedings and then points out in fact, quote, mr. jaworski is in the room, and senator robert bird asks jaworski to come down and join the process. mr. chairman, would i be asking too much, the chairman says let us have order, please, because whats go...