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Jackson, to get here. here she is. >> and i'm just so proud of her as a black woman. during the hearings just watching her, i felt her pain, and i think many people, many reached out to express the same thing, to see what she went through, to see that she was strong, that she persevered. it really speaks not only to black women, but women everywhere. anyone that's felt out of place or not welcome in an arena or they are the minority. >> that was antoinettecoakley. another one of her friends said she predicted she would be the first black woman on the supreme court because she was so brilliant ...

Of focus on senators manchin and sinema and their opposition to changing the filibuster rule. the vice president also had strong words for the 50 gop senators not backing either of the voting rights bills as recently as 2006, 98 senators voted to extend the voting rights act. what say you, congressman? >> well, look, i was a big supporter of the voting rights act, and i was in congress today, if i was there, i'd be voting to renew the voting rights act. craig, the problem here is that, again, there's a messaging issue here from the biden administration. joe biden ran as a consensus builder, as...

Great civil war. to determine whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. see, those are the words i want to see, an experiment, that next generation and the one after that. my grandchildren and their children, they'll determine whether the experiment still works, and of course, i am an optimist, and i am pretty sure it will. >> professor. >> well, he said it himself. justice breyer has been the court's cockeyed optimist for a varlong time. he's always had faith in institutions. always tried to be a consensus builder between the left and the right, on a cou...

At federal judge brown jackson. she's on the d.c. circuit court of appeals, considered aaa, before you get to the supreme court. numerous justices on the bench now came through the court. she's viewed as highly intelligent, very qualified, and sitting on that court has given her even more of addition to her resume, that's where you go before you end up at the supreme court for many justices. i think justice krueger from the california supreme court, another woman of intellect, and often seen as a swing vote, who does build compromise. again, she's clearly, the president is only going to pick s...

Rights. if it doesn't succeed, then we will go on. i'll tell you this. our odds are better than the odds that john lewis or dr. king faced when we were fighting for change. >> i hear that. but congressman, i mean, your home state senator is not going to vote against the rules change. you have manchin and sinema who are dug in. i struggle to understand what isolating them with another vote will do when you need them on everything else the senate might want topaz of president biden's agenda. >> look, i have a very good relationship with senator manchin. i have a lot of respect for him, and i thi...