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Vanita Gupta, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | blogs.law.nyu.edu WASHINGTON—Prominent civil rights groups are bringing wide-ranging policy agendas to Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden, with two of them also agitating for more Black appointees to top Cabinet posts. That, at least, was met with a Cabinet nomination for Rep. Marcia Fudge on Dec. 9. Among the top, boldfaced items on one list, from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Passing the Protect The Right To Organize (Pro) Act, the most-comprehensive pro-worker labor law reform since the original Nati...

>> katie: what about that point of because what all has come out of the special counsel so far is irrelevant to the trump campaign? to harris' point about how the president has reacted to this, don't these continuing referrals or indictments unrelated to the campaign further proof the president's point that this is a political witch hunt rather than a serious investigation of collusion? >> lisa: i do think that and we also found out it was hillary clinton in the dnc funding the dossier, that was a massive blow to the democrats argument of collusion because we found out it was in fact democrats...

Party line vote and they're having a difficult time doing that with healthcare. i'm not sure even in changing the rules of the senate you still have the problem of getting enough moderates and conservatives on board to get it done and push it through both the house and senate. >> shannon: getting to 51 is getting to 51. the president said democrats would do it no doubt. now, we know that when we hear them talk about it now, both sides say no way, we won't blow up the senate like this. we know they've changed things both parties have with regard to judges. so what is your thought? is that a fai...

Clyburn endorsed you. what do you say to those that say yo young and the sanders world is behind keith ellison. how do you answer that? >> they don't know what they are talking about. i was young at 29 when i was executive director of the house democrats and young at 30 when i ran the full operation. never lost a vote. when we took back control of the house and passed legislation, the fair act and the youngest chair in south carolina history, first african-american. so i have a history of being a young person and going out there and showing people that you can change the world and to all is my...