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That's what james clyburn says the white house must do in order to get it done. the white house must support that, push for it publicly, privately. that was james clyburn's public play to the white house this past weekend. and look what's happened since. today there is president biden saying in philadelphia in the big voting rights speech other and over again with passion, we must act to protect voting rights. we must act. we must act. this must be done. and now tonight here is the headline at npr. vice president harris hints that she has discussed filibuster changes with senators. this is wha...

Thick ethics charges. but liberals are showing that they will only need 51 votes not 60 to pass the next obama care. "new york times." democracy returns to the senate. what a different point of view we got here. two papers, two different points of view. the rule change does not end the 60 vote threshold for blocking legislation which we have argued is worth preserving. but the vote may lead to broader filibuster changes. a proposal by several younger democratic senators to require talking filibusters, forcing lawmakers to stand up at length and make their cases may well gain steam now and coul...

About warfare here. and you can't go through a lot of lengthy procedures in the middle of a war, but there may be some middle ground, and that's what we're going to be discussing and, in fact, i had some ideas on that, that i discussed with mr. brennan yesterday. >> senator, you mentioned both middle ground and being relatively new on the hill. now you are someone who is elected as an independent to the senate. you served as an independent when you were the governor of maine. >> right. >> we have issues, guns, immigration on the domestic side, spending and debt on the domestic side as well. wh...

Well, that is still true. a rules change with just a majority vote to make that change, that really can only happen on the first day of the new congress. but the reason you didn't hear anything about the rules being changed yesterday on day one of the new congress is that harry reid decided to redefine what counts as day one of the new congress. he redefined the first day of the legislative session. the first day will now last until, quote, later this month. which is most likely january 22nd. it started yesterday. it goes on for a while. so you did not remember that detail wrong. it was day on...

Happen on the first day of the new congress. but the reason you didn't hear anything about the rules being changed yesterday on day one of the new congress is that harry reid decided to redefine what counts as day one of the new congress. he redefined the first day of the legislative session. the first day will now last until, quote, later this month. which is most likely january 22nd. it started yesterday. it goes on for a while. so you did not remember that detail wrong. it was day one starting yesterday. but so far there has not been the day one vote on filibuster changes, and that still mi...