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With the calendar. this was a 65 states that were delegated as having this pattern. therefore we need a new map. congress took until now to have the new map. you're doing what the court asked of them to do, and while we are haggling over whether we do it, i remember when i was a kid in elementary school, exactly what you said, the 65 voting rights passed. one of the advocates was a republican from illinois. edward dirkson, i just remember his name because he became an outstanding part of that history. where is he in the republican party today? where is the everett dirkson as a democrat from we...

Brooklyn, there was a republican named everett dirkson, that my mother loved because he was voting for us not to have to sit in the back of the bus anymore. secretary of energy, jennifer granholm, thanks for being with us this morning. let's talk about these disaster, and how much money you think ought to be committed to fight claimant change. we know the white house is going to ask congress for $25 billion for immediate relief as we look at hurricane ida, and the wildfires in the west. i know president biden is heading out west in a matter of days, but big picture here, within these mass i ...

...you're about to find out! you don't even know where i live... hello! see the grinch in theaters by saying "get grinch tickets" into your xfinity x1 voice remote. a guy just dropped this off. he-he-he-he. how are you? >> all right. >> i want to talk to you as a friend. >> three days before the election. lyndon johnson strikes back. the president calls senate's top republican, everett dirkson with a message for dick nixon. nixon's people, he says are treading on dangerous ground and the president has the goods to burn agent anna chennault. >> and here the latest

Bigger defenders of slavery. it took a republican president, abraham lincoln, to end it. dixicrats filibustered, opposed expanding civil rights. although it was a democratic president and a majority democrat congress spurred on by young marchers and protesters that got the civil rights act and the voting rights act over the finish line, those historic laws also got passed because of the leadership of republicans like illinois's own everett dirkson. so neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom. neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards instead of forwards.

This to build on something bret said is how presidential this seems. this is a five-day funeral and we saw a couple of days in arizona and then we have coverage of the plane and the car and now taking senator mccain's body into the capitol. this is very much treatment you would see for a president. there will be a big memorial service tomorrow at the national cathedral and buried at the naval academy on sunday. has not been accorded to a lot of members of congress. i counted three in the past 50 years. claude pepper and everett dirkson in the 1960s. not something that's done very often. >> two...