May 28, 2021 Senator Merkley says, “Mitch McConnell has used the filibuster as a tool to obstruct any good thing from happening. He gets all the credit for the changing sense of Democrats that the current system is untenable.” In an interview with Chris Ryan, the junior US Senator from Oregon, Jeff Merkley, discusses the possibility that the Senate will end the filibuster rule, in order to push through President Biden’s progressive, legislative agenda; shares his opinion about whether the Biden Presidency has gone too far left; and predicts whether moderate Democrat Senators, like Hassan and Shaheen, will vote to end the filibuster.