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Doing, and it hasn't been effective. >> not exactly, victor. i think one of the hidden stories in the speech and again, i don't want to take away from it, he made the call that we wanted to hear. that sentence, i'm tired of being quiet, what he said is i have been having these quiet conversations for two months. you go back and watch it or read the transcript, he said for two months so if not for the lead with the filibuster, what the lead of the speech could have been, mr. president, are you telling me you've only been having these conversations since d december, and so we have been in the st...

Play. everybody has a role to play in terms of getting this democratic caucus to do the things that people put them in power to do. if a majority can be used in states to suppress the vote, then a majority should be all that we need in the senate in order to protect our voting rights and protect this democracy. >> you make an interesting point about having these quiet conversations for two months, also considering it's been six months since the speech at the national constitution center in philadelphia. let me play for you what we heard today from the minority leader in the senate, mitch mccon...

Now, yesterday president biden called on lawmakers to pass major voting and election legislation. >> mcconnell responded with a scathing speech of his own. >> yesterday, he shouted that if you disagree with him, you're george wallace. george wallace? you don't pass the laws he wants, you're bull connor. he compared, listen to this, a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. how profoundly, profoundly unpresidential. look, i've known and personally respected joe biden for many years. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. >> cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu...

Filibuster rule which would lower the number of senate votes needed to get the law approved. yesterday the president gave a big speech in atlanta and condemned republicans for not supporting the bills. joining me now is cliff albright, cofounder of black voters matter. he was one of the georgia voting rights activists who skipped attending the president's speech in person. welcome back. thank you for your time. let's start here. you initially before this speech said we don't need another speech, that you need some action. now that the president, the vice president have delivered those speeches...

Than in its own state of delaware. he blasted georgia's procedures regarding local elections officials while pushing national legislation with almost identical language on that issue. >> what's your reaction to what you're hearing there? >> my reaction is this is coming from mitch mcconnell who as we know, he's complaining about people trying to break the senate, he's the one who's broken the senate, and so, you know, we can't really take anything, again, this is the same person that has said that there's no such thing as voter suppression going on, that the filibuster has never been used to b...