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That he always tried to protect. in a chairmans meeting, the first in 1993 during the clinton presidency, chairman bird, announced to all of us that he personally would not allow the clinton health care bill to be done in reconciliation. so we instantly gave up. the majority leader didnt think let me talk him into this. everyone instantly gave up on reconciliation on that. then you cut to obamacare, getting to the united states senate. robert bird goes along with the idea that you can split it, ...

Economic priorities can go forward this summer. >> does this all mean basically that most democrats are ultimately going to go ahead with getting rid of the 60-vote threshold? >> thats really a hard question to answer. that has more to do with investigate rights than it does budget proposals, and i think it has to -- a lot to do with joe manchin ends up on investigate rights and right now when it comes to the budget nobody has -- has access to a couple, then joe manchin would get on board. you h...

The prospect that state officials will seek to overturn the will of voters. now joe manchin will try to get ten republicans to support the john lewis voting rights bill which restores portions of the voting rights act struck down by the supreme court. so far only one republican, lisa murkowski supporting that bill. he was asked excellent strategic question about his insistence that senate democrats should not change the rule about the 60-vote threshold. >> first of all, you have made it clear, n...

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...

Domestic extremism and domestic violence rule the day, and im not in that group. i think we need to find out what happened and need to make adjustments. >> you sound a lot like senator angus king, the independent from maine who caucuses with democrats. he told me hes not in favor of removing the flust yes, the 60-vote threshold but if it comes down to preserving the filibuster or preserving voting rights in some sort of legislation that would fight to protect the ability of the american people t...

Threshold that democrats because of their majority need ten republicans to come to their side and that includes on that key issue of voting rights but he is also implicated in n. these elongated talks on infrastructure saying he wants to see a bipartisan deal. but president biden and republicans are at a stalemate right now, they dont agree on a lot of things including the price. new spending and how to pay for it. so senator shelly moore capito the republican lead and president biden will talk ...

Senate and joe mentions reference for the rules of the senate is inherited from robert bird and the three people who will be discussing robert birds view of the rules actually know maybe more about that even than joe manchin does in-house robert prude him self was changed rules in the senate when he felt it was necessary and it wasnt working so thats how were gonna begin tonight. >> its one thing to say that you review or the rules of the senate and you want to follow in the footsteps of somebod...

What is happening here, dr. siegel >> i think people have made up their minds and thats very disappointing because we really need that last group to get over the threshold of what we have been calling herd immunity. people that had covid and gotten over it and people who get vaccinated. we are getting closer and closer and certain areas were there. this group is resistant because they believe social media too much or they have reservations about something they think is too new or theyre not look...

Filibuster continues to entrench power over progressive change and its use is still disproportionately advantages conservatives and entrenches powerful interests over vulnerable influences and progressive change. >> i mentioned earlier that you worked harry reid lets see if i can get my mouth to work. his deputy chief of staff when he was the democratic leader. the filibuster was being used to block president barack obamas nominations. reid lowered that threshold. it was dubbed the nuclear optio...

The reality is that when you have a system thats not working effectively, and i would think that most would agree that the senate is not a particularly well-oiled machine, right, the way to fix that is to change your behavior. >> that was senator kyrsten sinema tuesday at an appearance at the border with republican senator jon cornyn. no behavior has been changed by the filibuster. zeero zip, nada. thats one of the five biggest myths about the filibuster that keeps getting pitched by sinema, man...