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To our friendtl jason whitlock, the host of "fearless." he has thought about this and we are happy to have him on tonight. thanks so much for coming on. there's clearly a significance here. what is it? what should we take from this? >> thank you so much for having me on, tucker, you continue to do amazing, important work and it's an honor to be on your show. tucker, i do think this is a moment that we need to analyze and i analogized it in a column i wrote today for the blade and talked about on my podcast to the california gold rush of the 1840s and 1850s. racism is now the new gold and peopl...

It tells us, so we are outsourcing the thinking on this to our friend jason whitlock, the host of "fearless." he has thought about this and we are happy to have him on tonight. thanks so much for coming on. there's clearly a significance here. what is it? what should we take from this? >> thank you so much for having me on, tucker, you continue to do amazing, important work and it's an honor to be on your show. tucker, i do think this is a moment that we need to analyze and i analogized it in a column i wrote today for the blade and talked about on my podcast to the california gold rush of the...

Filibuster, a jim crow relic, to secure the god given rights of americans, that's what we should do. >> the filibuster, manchin and sinema were trying to create a bipartisanship. we saw that today. it's a long disgraceful history of being abused to block civil rights and voting rights bills. facts first here. used to preserve slavery in the 1840s before it was even called a filibuster and used to defeat an anti-lynching bill in the 1920s. in 1957, senator therman took to the floor to filibuster the civil rights act speaking for a record 24 hours and 18 minutes. in 1964 the longest filibuster i...

Of people voting and suddenly they wouldn't want the majority of people to vote because they know they do not represent the majority of the american people. >> so the filibuster has been used again and again to kill civil rights and voting registration. former president barack obama speaking at the funeral of june lewis calling it a relics of jim crow. >> this takes eliminating the filibuster a jim crow relics to secure the god given rights of americans, that's what we should do. >> the filibuster, mansion and s cinema were trying to create a bipartisanship. we saw that today. it's a long disg...

There will be some sacrifices need to be done here by democrats. i think a public campaign that democrats need to get the american people, they need to go directly to them i believe and explain why the filibuster is not something the founders of the country envisioned as integral of the united states and government, it is something that started in the 1840s informally with senator calhoun who used to protect slavery. just trying to understand the history around this would help but if reality is for republicans this is no longer about compromised and democrats really need to step up. they need ...