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The president can use executive authority on some things, but he is going to be limited overall in terms of codifying roe. >> i mentioned joe manchin not budging on the filibuster, but he has budged on other things in recent days. you and i am spoken about joe manchin in build back better many times on this show. in fact, we last book about it i believe was back in january. here is what you said then. have a listen. >> we are going to get something done on build back better, and i think to manchin is going to be a partner in that. and he is going to get this across the finish line. that is my ...

How can they, how do they justify that veterans that they'd vote against a bill like that? >> it's sheer vindictiveness, pettiness, hypocrisy. you expect that at times from the republicans, but not over veterans. i, mean that's what's so sad, these are people who have defended the united states, they rest their own lives, they've been injured, have health issues because of that. you're playing politics because you don't want to give the democrats a win. ted cruz has been so hypocritical on this, he voted for, and then he comes up with some bogus answer about discretionary mandatory spending, i...

I think indulging in these parlor games is counterproductive. we have midterms coming up that are unbelievably important. we have to hold the senate. and hopefully add at least two seats to it. i believe we can do that. have to hold the house and that's the only way we'll do things like codifying roe. doing stuff on climate that we absolutely need to do. look how just scorching hot it is around the world. we have to get stuff done, we need to elect democrats to the senate, to the house, governors, the governor's race in pennsylvania so crucial, secretaries of state they're going after our demo...

Birth control, last week we did earlier in the week we did marriage equality and protecting interracial marriage. >> i want to get to that specific last bill you mentioned in a moment. to your point about essentially trying to codify roe, to codify the right to travel, et cetera, on that point, you're a lawyer, another esteemed legal professor victoria norris at georgetown wrote this about democratic efforts and talking points about codifying roe, she said drafters of any federal roe protection must not be starry i'd, people should start using the term codify roe, the phrase is misleading, but...

Assigned my name to such a thing. i think it's deeply offensive. also not true. nothing anybody is asking for that is not a step, that has not been a mainstream democratic position, since the clinton administration. people want access to abortion. it's okay to ask for what you want. to dismiss this as sort of out of touch activism, is incorrect. but these are the people that you need. you need us. we are -- asking for crazy things, like codifying roe at the other level. that is not crazy. he needs to win, we should be working together on a solution, as opposed to queuing up the firing squad on...