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Basically get off a debate. >> with the senate 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction. a jim crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way, oh, but late last week, they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves. a useful reminder of just how fake, fake the hysteria has been. >> joining us now, co-founder of purple bowl news jake sherman. he is an ms nbc political contributor and a pillar of the community. jake, great to see you, lets talk about ...

Threshold of our democracy, while millions of arizonas and latinos will be disenfranchised, millions of americans across the country, if we do not have fair free elections at the federal level where everybody regardless of party is playing by the same rules. >> has senator sinema been willing to engage with you, with other groups that have had a problem with her recent voting record and her recent action on issues like this? has she been willing to talk? >> she did on the very day of the big vot...

Whats your reaction to what shes saying? shes looking long-term. >> look, i think we have an immediate issue and a long-term issue that the way that the other party, the majority of the other party wants to win is by suppressing the vote and election subversion. so, you cant say were trying to protect our democracy for the long-term by preserving the filibuster when the reality is that you need to actually protect voting rights if youre going to have a democracy at all. but also, i just want to ...

District will provide enhanced weekly testing . on top of that, the city and district will provide students and staff with kn 95 masks. there is also a provision for upgraded contact tracing, where people will be paid to do the contact tracing. and here was another sticking point, a threshold or metrics in place, triggering schools individually to flip to remote learning while in the middle of high transmission of covid. and when we say high transmission, were talking about guidelines outlined b...

Debate this has ignited on how difficulty of a threshold a seditious conspiracy charge is. how hard do you think, will it be to prove this case? is it a hard case to handle? >> it is a difficult charge to prove. in fact the case that i brought in 2010 against a militia group in michigan that was plotting to kill police officers ended up being dismissed because the judge believed that there was insufficient evidence of a conspiracy to commit that plot. so it can be difficult. however, i think som...

Us now. take us through the timeline of what we expect to happen next week. >> reporter: jessica, the hope was by senate majority leader chuck schumer, this would get a vote by the martin luther king holiday on monday. that is not going to happen, although we expect quite a bit of activity after that. we are talking about a hearing and potential debate on voting rights legislation, which would be very different than what weve seen before. the way they were able to do this is that the house, in f...

At the last general election. they meet regularly. there is fair to say deep unease and discontent among some of them about his leadership, but what there is not is a consensus, it seems, among their members and certainly across departments reached conservative party as a whole about what to do and when to do it. because this is a largely secret process by which the party goes about starting the process to choose a new leader, it is one thing to say that you are prepared to submit a letter that ...

Bidens calls to change senate rules to pass voting rights with a simple majority took to the senate floor to reiterate in no uncertain terms shes opposed to this change. >> while i continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. the debate over the senate 60-vote threshold shines a light on our broader challenges. theres no need for me to restate my long-standing support for the 60-vote threshold to pass l...

Georgia, when you look at states like arizona, when you look at states like texas together with the african american community and the latino community, its an incredible force. instead of having the republicans compete for us on policy issues, they want to control and control and centralize power. and sinema wants to be a part of that apartheid autocratic government. and thats the question we should ask. we should also ask where are the patriots on the republican side? where are the mitt romney...

The senate has, in fact, not operated this way through most of the history. give us the facts. did the framers really intend to have the filibuster that manchin is defending? >> absolutely not, and they were clear about this. when the senate was created the framers created it as a majority-rule institution, and they were very clear about this. they wanted debate to be extensive. they wanted the minority, you know, numerical minority in any given debate to have their say, but they also wanted, yo...