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That you allow the same kind of reconciliation of constitutional rights that you allow on budgetary issues. that's all. if you want to have the fill bser in order to bring policy issues forward and have a debate on the policy issues, then that's fine. but not my constitutional rights. and then there another thing. i asked people to look at the history of the 15th amendment and see how that was passed. it was passed on the party line vote. and for mr. manchin to tell me that a vote is not credible unless it has bipartisan vote, he's it willing me it's not credible for my -- to get the right to ...

Work right, it needs to be bipartisan. i'm going to remind him. that the 15th amendment to the united states constitution, the amendment that gave the former slaves the right to vote, my four beers. that was a straight party line vote. it was not bipartisan. so this notion, that there has to be bipartisan, in order to be good. let's just say, put into law. that is poppycock. so we need to move forward with this legislation. i would hope that joe manchin would take a look at history and be guided by the history the history of the 15th amendment, as well as the history of what is now the john le...

It. today, you have the same response to these folks. are you thinking about this the wrong way. >> absolutely. history ought to be our guide with these issues. the fact of the matter is the 15th amendment for the constitution was passed on a straight line party vote. the 15th amendment is what gives the former slaves and other blacks the right to vote. that was the straight line party vote. for you to argue that it has to be bipartisan or it is not credible, you are flying in the face of history. that is not what the facts are. i look at the same thing about krysten sinema's speech yesterday ...

A nation, without the filibuster, and became the strongest country on earth. it's only in the 2012 years, but the filibuster is been abused, that america has lost. shine lastly, we have been here before. after the passage of the 15th amendment, guaranteeing the african americans the right to vote, -- all manner of restrictions, from taxes, to literary test forces. in 1890, republicans in the house passed the lodge act, which would've -- to prevent southern attacks on democracy. it was filibustered by segregationist of the senate that died. with it, democracy died in the american south, for the...

Infrastructure talks and so many other things on his agenda. but now it seems in talking to white house officials they understand the urgency. >> here is clyburn, i want to read this, nse, jim co piece ab talk about the belly of the beast, clyburn, third ranking house democrat, took offense to manchin's argument that senate rules changes should be bipartisan. he said, quote, we just don't have enough democrats who are in touch with the history of this country where they stop saying some of this foolishness. i am, as you know, a black person, descendant of people who were given the vote by the ...