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What i will say is that every democrat is on both bills and, in fact, in the john lewis act, we have one republican. i think it is time for them to figure out -- well, first of all, it's time for mitch mcconnell to stop obstructing it. the freedom to vote act has 50 cosponsors, and the john lewis voting rights act has, i think, 51 usponsors, if i recall correctly. senator murkowski joined us when that was introduced, so there's obvious unanimity in our party to move this forward. what we need to do is get rid of our obstruction which is the filibuster, which is mitch mcconnell saying that desp...

And they never covered by story there obviously. and so, you know, that's what they see and what they hear. now, that works on the other side too. there's probably people that only watch other networks that have another point of view. >> true, true. >> but i think it's incredibly dangerous to have -- a big difference between having a conservative opinion and having one that supports conspiracy theories. >> totally. and despite your concerns about your democracy, you are trying to utilize our democracy to make change. wednesday there's going to be a house vote on your bill, what you said will b...

What is in this bill, and level with us, what are the chances it actually gets passed because it doesn't really matter what happens in the house if the senate doesn't want to play ball. >> first, stephanie, our prayers are with the families of both officers who lost their lives in the last week in new york city, and you know, this piece of legislation is about investing to protect because we believe you can't define, you need to invest to make departments better and stronger and protect people in our communities and of course officers. there are 40 cosponsors, half democrat and half republican...

Eminent, common sense. i would like to say that this is a triumph of common sense in washington, which we all like to have those stories from time to time. >> i was blown away when i saw the roll call vote, because i expected it to be one of these, party line votes, and the house was team this up for the senate, who knows if it goes anywhere, and there is 441 votes, you have 100 republican votes, you have got enough cosponsors in the senate, what does this do? does it just take away this onerous pension pre funding requirement? >> that is one of the major aspects. it takes away the pre-funding...

Who knows if it goes anywhere, and there is 441 votes, you have 100 republican votes, you have got enough cosponsors in the senate, what does this do? does it just take away this onerous pension pre funding requirement? >> that is one of the major aspects. it takes away the pre-funding requirement, which takes close to 30 billion dollars of liability which is on the books right now for the postal service, which makes no sense for the reasons that we talked about. it also allows the employees as they retired to go into medicare, and integrate with medicare, which every company in america does w...