you re because you don t have your brother bill texting you the score like i do right here. telling me exactly when the grand slams come in. i ll do my part. i know how this works. it s all right. rachael, i was fascinated by your interview with congresswoman because especially because she actually did say the words, in her first response, well, i can t say what was actually said in the meeting. whereupon in the audience you kind of go, all right, do we go to the commercial now? like what s left to talk about? but it was very revealing and very, very helpful. for me, studying every little wrinkle of this. the for me the most single important fact that we know about the meeting is that it was two hours long. that is not a meeting about
air tonight the u.s. senate voted to allow democrats to raise the debt ceiling for a few more weeks, whereupon, i guess, we ll get to do this all over again. 11 republicans joined with democrats to allow the vote to happen. but then when the vote actually happened, no republicans voted with democrats to do it. so there s a 60-vote threshold to allow the democrats to vote for it. republicans did allow that with 11 republican senators joining with the democrats, and then when it came time to actually take the vote and raise the debt ceiling, it was democrats only. why are we doing this? you might remember that a few weeks ago republicans were threatening not one but two completely unnecessary self-inflicted crises, hitting the debt ceiling and also forcing the u.s. government into a government shutdown. well, those things have been averted for now. last week democrats reached a deal with the republicans to
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with every country. and china is clearly a global power. and for us is clearly a global power. and for us not is clearly a global power. and for us not to have a relationship with china, even if we relationship with china, even if we didn t have 147 years ago. if we didn t have 147 years ago, would be foolish. but ou ve ago, would be foolish. but you ve been ago, would be foolish. but you ve been very - ago, would be foolish. elf you ve been very complimentary about china. you had a phone conversation with president xi jinping recently. you said this is about strengthening the relationship with china in 2019. the government signed up to the bri, the big infrastructure projects, and so on. some people are suspicious. they think that china wants to buy the family silver. let they think that china wants to buy the family silver.- buy the family silver. let us ut it buy the family silver. let us put it this buy the family silver. let us put it this way. buy the family silver.
nancy pelosi and senators joe manchin and lindsey graham and many others to discuss the desperate need for federal voter protection legislation. i wonder if if you might share your impressions of those meetings. did you come away feeling like the points that you heard that we made in politics may keep them from being acted upon whereupon republican audiences were concerned with this? let me go first to you, martin. your impressions as we laid out the gravity of the problem, the existential threat to voting, and how some of them seemed more concerned with how their constituents would respond than what we need to do to protect the voting rights in this country. rev, i, like you and like