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Seems from bernie sanders, aoc, elizabeth warren, on these matters theyve been disciplined the first few months. >> you mentioned voter id, thats significant evolution. a lot of these house members have won elections in states you have to give voter id to vote. they cannot win if the state is gerrymander, and the district is cracked. the nightmares theyre working about. theyre doing a gigantic bill that cant survive in full but a big ask that can be negotiated away. is it important for 2022 for ...

Against a voting bill and an infrastructure bill that seven out of ten americans support? >> thats the bet democrats are making. put out this bill that offers some compromise on questions like voter id and others, call their bluff. on the question of voter id we put up that 80% of americans support voter id. if you go to the poll yesterday, 84% of nonwhite voters support voter id. this is something theyre putting out there. we have two lessons last week from stacey abrams, the leading voting rig...

Filibuster threshold and we can get somewhere on not just voting rights but on infrastructure too. its interesting how things are panning out at the moment where you get some of the moderate republicans saying we want to legislate. >> imagine how popular it will be if within a couple of weeks of each of these bills passing, you pass a significant infrastructure bill and you pass a voting rights bill. there are going to be a lot of -- >> thats the rub right there. >> that isnt hard for mcconnell ...

Democratic senator joe manchin who has come out against the bill in its current form. the west virginia democrat has proposed a compromise and now senate majority leader chuck schumer is trying to convince him to advance the bill as a way to begin making changes, senator manchin met with president biden yesterday. well keep you posted on that. and also, former president barack obama is the latest high profile democrat to back senator manchins voting rights compromise. it expands early voting, ...

Standing in opposition? >> actually mitch mcconnell represents the republican caucus so hes doing what he thinks the republican caucus at large wants to do. thats his job. but there are five republicans, im sure. lisa murkowski, susan collins, mitt romney, and a couple others that for a voting bill that requires voter id and purges the rolls, i think there are five republicans that support that. >> that 55 filibuster rule is looking more promising at the moment, it was a week or two ago. not jus...

Would love to run against a republican that voted against this. everywhere they went i would call them captain gerrymander. what do you hate about voter id? my god, kids have to have an id and i repeat the republican arguments for 50 years. >> we did it in 2010. why do you think i got on a big red bus that ran around the country? >> you like big red buses? the. >> yes. i like big red buses that put the pressure back on those standing in the way on an issue that the country said were not buying t...

Party at times on issues, which both sides will do. its more difficult to get to the 60 threshold. so the pressure you feel is much less because youre not dealing with ever getting to the 58th or 59th vote because the senate is so divided. if youre at 48, 49, and you only need 50, the pressure is always on you. >> what if it takes 55? >> do you think five senators are voting for s-1. >> not s-1. >> do you think five senators would vote for the equality act for an infrastructure bill that was ove...

Voting rights -- we shouldnt have to debate voting rights on the floor of the united states senate. these rights should be sacrosanct. but the events of the last few months compel us to have this debate now. i challenge you, republican senators, come to the floor, defend these policies. tell us how they secure the vote. tell us how they prevent nearly nonexistent voter fraud. so kasie, we heard the new name there -- >> its a vote to talk. >> we heard a new name of a senator from west virginia jo...

Michael, barack obama -- >> yes. >> -- is now supporting voter id. which most americans support. >> no democrat. >> its racist, its bigots, we had to show a voter id? this is jim crow 8.0. >> yep. >> barack obama saying, we support voter id, and hes right. most americans support voter id. barack obama is now saying, purge voter roles. again something the democrats would say, you just hate black people. you were born hating black people because you want the rolls to be purged. thats all democrats...

Move on this. one of the central challenges here is that democrats have really gotten their base extraordinarily worked up over this, and its going to be a disappointing day for them today and thats going to be a challenge for the biden white house as they try to keep progressives happy on other things but i think this is a longer-term play to change the conversation with progressives. >> speaking of progressives, i remember when we were the red hots on the white in the 94 class. we wouldnt let ...