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Need substantive change. i am not interested in entertaining a procedural argument of a process that have been used in the past to impede progress. in the '30s, '40s, and '50s. at the end of the day african-americans want to see outcomes. we need voting rights protections, we need quality of life improvements. and so whether it is administration or the senate, we need outcomes. but we also need the senate to do their job. these policy issues are in their hands, and if they want to have a successful 2022 election outcome, they must adopt measures to protect the rights of voters. >> all right. l...

Townhall. a free-flowing stream of revelations about what's going on behind the scenes as the white house and democrats move closer to a deal on a spending plan that could change the lives of seniors, kids, and working parents. after 100 hours of negotiations, he predicted there will be a deal. although four or five issues remain unresolved. and he specified exactly what the holdups are with senators sinema and manchin, where he is willing to compromise, and where he is not. >> another big takeaway was president biden's evolving position on the filibuster. he said he is open to altering it to ...

Republicans. you could probably get up to four or five. >> so it is politics. >> because it is politics, yes. here is the other thing. you know, i think what juanita is saying is very important about having the convergence of different interests come together and force the filibuster issue, but i also worry that too many issues make it a very loud noise where they may have had a chance to get a carve-out, for example, for voting rights. you know, now you are going to look for a carve-out for everything. i'm not opposed to it. i have been on the air for months saying i think they should blow up...

Support a 13-year-old girl who's gotten raped by a family member, forcing her to carry her pregnancy to term? it is so egregious, and i think it runs so many -- >> if it's so egregious, why aren't these moderate republicans speaking up? who are they? who are these people that you speak of? >> well, i'm talking about moderate republican voters, swing voters. >> got it. any republicans of note, any people that could make legislative changes, that could make waves in washington to stop the texas law. >> you're not going to get ten republicans. you could probably get up to four, five, but i don't ...

Split between transit and roads and bridges between democrats and republicans. tammy duckworth the senator from illinois has worries about infrastructure for drinking water and sewage. but they're arguing about specifics which means they are moving along. i think the biggest issue here and one of the reasons why priebd is tiptoeing a -- president biden is tiptoeing around the filibuster issue in a way that i think is a little dangerous is because if mitch mcconnell really decided to torpedo this bill he might be able to pull enough republicans away to de-prive them of the ten votes they need. ...