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Our colleagues at the other side of pennsylvania avenue in the white house unit, mike memoli around carol lee among them, led the reporting that the white house is aware of the handwringing around bidens candidacy and theyre sort of leveraging soft power, keeping their friends close but enemies or potential rivals closer, a sort of frenemies relationship there in the lead-up to the unofficial start of the 2024 cycle. but, look, the fact that you have someone like dean phillips saying that he thi...

Out front winning issue broadly for democrats going into the midterms, and i sort of have been arguing i think thats problematic. if you look at the new "usa today" polling out shows that over 80% of americans are actually worried about democracy. senator warnock is right that democracys in peril, and americans overwhelmingly feel worried about democracy. so i think there is now some political traction there broadly. but also when you talk about sort of base mobilization, and looks, weve talked ...

Voting rights, especially if the effort is going to fail. i think youve heard some of that hesitance from people like jon tester, who says hes not crazy about a carveout for voting rights. youve married mark kelly, democrat of arizona, whos in one of the marquise senate races have said something similar, some sort of pause about blowing up the filibuster. they are the public face, but there are some people behind them. but the overwhelming majority of senate democrats, overwhelming, want to chan...

I know its complicated because the rules are arcane. explain it as best wuk. >> what schumer was talking about the way it used to be in the 1970s before the rules were changed. you actually had to hold the floor and talk. then the rules were changed and a minority could simply vote no without taking the floor. i talked to senator joe manchin, and he says he supports a talking filibuster. he is open to that as well as other rules changes such as requiring three-fifths of those voting to break a f...

Manchin to sign on. now, they reworked it and now you will see a unified senate democratic caucus that is kind of what schumer is trying to do here. all 50 senate democrats are supportive of voting rights reform. >> so white house officials as we talked about earlier in the show are eager to move. its time to go and move forward infrastructure and social spending packages. time to get the reconciliation package wrapped up. walk us through it. what the steps they are taking to get a deal done qui...

Whats known as reconciliation, so just with democratic votes. leader schumer and house speaker pelosi say they wont do that. are you ruling out raising the debt ceiling with only democratic votes through reconciliation? >> the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, is playing games with a loaded weapon here. hes demanded the filibuster be applied to the debt ceiling. it may be the first time in history thats happened, and we have been warned by not only the treasury secretary but by a...

Symptoms, do not get any severe outcome, certainly can transmit it to others. and others may be people who would get a severe outcome. so theres a lot of reasons that people may not have really assimilated in their mind why its important to do that. but there are very good reasons to do that. >> dr. fauci, thank you for coming on. >> good to be with you, kate. thank you for having me. >> thank you. coming up for us, chuck schumer is tightening the screws to try to get republicans to go along w...

History thats happened, and we have been warned by not only the treasury secretary but by all the financiers across america this would be deadly to our economy. it would cost us 6 million jobs. why? what schumer said to mcconnell is, if youre not going to lead, if youre not going to follow, get the hell out of the way. let the democrats accept the political responsibility of extending the debt ceiling and mcconnell said no. he is doing it at the expense of this economy. well get this done and in...

There is a way to fast track that. you and i last hour were talking about what senate majority leader chuck schumer said, which is theres an easy way to do this and a hard way to do this. right now theyre moving forward on what schumer would call the hard way to do it, the slower way of doing it. the clock has started, 30 hours of debate, then were going to see another procedural vote. at any time, all 100 senators could come together and say that theyve decided on a quicker process to move forw...

Pilots figuring out where the plane will land. i tried to figure out a way to say the bill is not dead. it is not dead. and as you know as well as anyone else, there is a problem with the clock ticking up. it will take a week or two to get to the process before getting to the budget bill. what schumer intends to do before the senate heads to recess. if i were a senate staffer, i would be concerned about my vacation plans for the end of august. >> and john, we have john tester in the thick of the...