reticent about this issue. i want to remind your listeners and those looking in, the bill that the president endorsed today, the freedom to vote act, is not the house passed bill. that is joe manchin's bill. he asked for time to put something together that he thought made sense and thought he could get republicans to support. he was given that time and he did it, and now he is supporting the filibuster that's a filibuster of his bill. so, the freedom to vote act is joe manchin's legislation stacey abrams endorsed when he first proposed it. i followed her and supported -- in support of the bill, and today the president of the united states came out with his