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over delivering. so this was a distinct change, i think, in messaging and sort of represents a noof phase according to some of the people i talked to who are responsible for the vaccine rollout. i think numbers wise, yeah, its totally possible when you start to look at the amount of vaccine thats available, look from moderna, pfizer, johnson & joh johnson, getting the vaccines into peoples arms, and also into hard-to-reach communities. its not a slam dunk. i think the vaccine itself wi...

But i wanted to find out what did your vote actually get? you have the house. you have the senate. you have the house. and you are still crying about voter suppression. how much more do you need? >> because i dont have -- >> at what point are you going to. [ everybody talking at once ] -- talking about voting suppression and moving in to outcomes. particularly for black people. okay? every two year, four years, we hear vote, vote, vote. but what are you specifically getting for your vote? what a...

But maybe out of the ashes of this current debate, the eca reform could get some democrats and republicans interested in a bipartisan proposal that looked more at election subversion and not voting suppression. voting suppression is the sticking point. republicans are not going to change their minds on voting suppression. they dont believe that these laws being passed are suppressing votes. and whether thats true or not, theres no breakthrough likely there. but you do have some republicans who d...

Who have been described as moderates by many, but at this point, you can only describe as obstructionists for voting rights. is he going to call them out directly? what is he going to do to get this done? thats what they want to know. theyve been in the streets doing the work, and theyve been able to mobilize unprecedented voter access. you cant outorganize legislation designed to suppress the vote. >> noticeably absent from this speech today will be stacey abrams, who is seen as the reason that...

Is. good evening. sir, pleasure to have you on. >> happy new year my dear. >> this is near and dear to your heart. barring some miracle. voting rights will fail in the senate next week when schumer brings it to a vote. what does that mean for voters and gop led states where they pass these restrictive voting laws? >> it means were in a deeper crisis than many people are willing to admit, brother. this is very real. voting is one particular means by which people try to raise their voices. you can...

>> evidence of the opposite, absolute opposite. shes not shown even today shown disingenuous and dishonest at most. the nuclear option of passing this without republican support, what aboutsupport, what about the nuclear option of us seeing voter suppression laws across the country to marginalize black voters? what about republicans leading effort in charge of voting suppression, now going to go to the wolf in the henhouse, lets talk about how we protect voting rights. disingenuous, its shown ab...

Even though we know fraud doesnt exist in this election system and i dont think for the people act or the john lewis voting rights act is an over reach. i think our democracy is in crisis and that if real people were in leadership right now, meaning the republicans elected now and joe manchin and krysten sinema we would get this bill passed but we play politics and not put our democracy first. >> yeah. charlie, there should be more people like you there because when you were there, voting rights...

Has censured sinema. do you agree with that move? >> this is a democratic party of arizona expressing their huge disappointment in their own senators, so thats something that and im going to continue to focus on whats good for the american people. and whats at stake is the freedom at polls and being able to vote during the elections and not being restricted in the ways these dozens of laws are restricting them. so that is what is at stake, basically democracy and freedom to vote is at stake. >> ...

Which you know, mainstream media, as the majority of it doesnt want to actually speak the truth. when we first started the foundation my wife and i we did a billboard campaign highlighting the hugely disproportionate impact of abortion in the black community. it was unbelievable how many of them just ignore me. in fact, i remember npr at one point did a piece on all things considered on the campaign that i created called too many aborted.com. a campaign i created. when the piece came out they ha...

Legislation. was a major voting rights march in washington today. including members of dr. kings family. >> let me be clear. when states are engaged in lawless voting suppression, only the law can stop them. senator sinema and manchin also say that if the bill doesnt get bipartisan support, it shouldnt pass. well, the 14th amendment, which granted citizenship to slave in 1868, that didnt have bipartisan support. should formerly enslaved people have been denied citizenship, senator sinema? the 15...