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Revere the rules of the senate and want to follow in his footsteps so wasnt change the filibuster when robert byrd changed the filibuster to lower the threshold for number of votes it took. im looking forward to that. >> by the way, one of the people who knew robert byrd is host of this program. and boston accent warning, bill bratton is here, graduated from boston police academy the same year i graduated from high school in boston. hes going to join us, you know what thats going to sound like. ...

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Senator and friend susan collins did not say yesterday when she stands and another of republican senators did not believe federal intervention was necessary at all and was skeptical or opposed. this bill is facing a tough climb to 60 votes and its not exactly the bipartisan panacea senator manchin might have wanted for voting rights. speaker pelosi and other democrats dont view the john lewis bill as a substitute for s-1. they believe that needs to pass anyway. this is a bind democrats are in no...

Lets get started. a potential fall—out between amazon and g7 finance ministers, which could leave the tech giant with a huge tax bill. according to the financial times, finance ministers plan to treat amazons cloud computing division as a separate entity to ensure the firm falls into the 10% profit margin threshold. amazon didnt start making big profits until 2017, and has been consistently below the 10% margin threshold set by the g7. however, revenues at its cloud business grew by 30% last y...

Supreme court struck down the coverage formula which they said was based on the past practices and not what was happening now and was unconstitutional. so texas no longer were under clearance regime, had to have voting changes cleared by department of justice. hr-4 would re-establish that coverage formula but have it national to apply to any states with voting rights violations in last 25 years, met a certain threshold, would be in preclearance, and other great things too, certain changes would ...

Didnt think let me try to talk him into it, everybody instantly gave up on reconciliation on that. cut to obamacare getting through the united states senate and robert byrd goes along with the idea you can split it and pass some through reconciliation, some over the 60-vote threshold, thats something robert byrd never would have done in the early 1990s. in that very specific possibly complex verse of this, i was fascinated to watch his evolution on that use of reconciliation itself. >> look, you...

Gonna be difficult in the senate the hr4 is still really really important because it restores the voting rights act and improves it from what was done to it in 2013 went to the supreme court struck down the coverage formula. they said the coverage from light was based on past practices and for that reason it was unconstitutional and they struck down that formula. in states like my state, texas, no longer run the plea clearance regime which is cleared by the department of justice. hr4 will real e...

That period were civil rights bills. and civil rights bills were actually ready to pass long before they started to pass in the 1960s. the nation was ready to support them. gallup found 72% of americans ready to support an anti-poll tax law that was ready to pass in the 1930s, and it was blocked by the filibuster. fast forward to today and the filibuster continues to support the forces of the status quo and entrenched power over progressive change and its use still disproportionately is over -- ...

That senate democrats should not change the rule about the 60 vote threshold. >> first of all youve made it clear not gonna ask you again, you said you would a pose wrapping the filibuster and the question i have is whether or not, and you say you hope that will bring the parties together. the question i have is whether or not youre doing it exactly the wrong way and hear me out on this, if you were to keep the idea that maybe you would fight to kill the filibuster wouldnt that give the republic...

Couldnt do the work of the country. so consequently, he voted to lower the threshold for closure from 2/3 to 60, and moved against the post closier filibuster. paralyzed senate byrd would not have stood for. i believe he would have attacked the problem years ago. the partisan senate, obstructionist senate of mitch mcconnell. >> ira, if joe manchin could get robert byrd on the phone tonight, what is do you think senator byrd would advise him about this situation? >> well, with three experts who a...