Transcripts for CNN Don Lemon Tonight 20210825 07:05:00 : vi

CNN Don Lemon Tonight August 25, 2021 07:05:00

into reconciliation, they will ultimately get done. you know, it may not be $3.5 trillion. you know, the pound of flesh that manchin and sinema and the house moderates demand may require it to be scaled back somewhat. but it's still going to be, to use john's word, transformative. i mean we're going from, you know, what, 13 to 17 years of publicly funded education, universal pre-k and free community college, expansion of medicare, expansion of medicaid to cover all of those in the states that refuse to expand under the affordable care act. i mean this is an enormous piece of legislation. but beyond that, everything that can't be included in this does remain subject to the republican filibuster in the senate, and i think one thing that today made very clear, don, no republicans voted for the extension of the voting rights act after it had massive bipartisan support in its previous iterations. and that really puts the focus on manchin and sinema because they are arguing that the senate

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