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About the most precious right, you have to have 60 votes. that filibuster issue. i don't understand why we don't look at doing that. we're not sure yet who would support it. we have to do everything we can. we have no choice. our democracy is beyond challenged. >> have you, yourself, or someone with, again, the illustrious last name from the king family, given a call to someone like joe manchin? are you reaching out to that level saying, hey, can we talk about this filibuster? >> we certainly are involved in that process. in fact, my mom spoke to every united states senator when we were trying...

A ban on drive-thru voting. tougher restrictions for voter i.d. for people to vote by mail, as well as banning election officials from automatically sending mail-in ballot applications to people who haven't specifically requested them. now, president biden, he is coming under increasing pressure from voting rights activists to actually take action now on this. the president spending this weekend here in delaware at his home, but just a few days ago he heard from civil rights activists who met with him and vice-president kamala harris at the white house to make the case for what they want to se...

On in the entire country so i really want to implore our lawmakers that our democracy is on the line. this filibuster issue, i think we need to go ahead and handle that if you're going to save our very democracy that we say that we love so much in our country. >> in texas, republicans are -- gearing up on the strictest voting restrictions in the country. the first bill was killed in may just as it was about to be passed. now the governor, greg abbott, has summoned the legislation back to finish the job. robert gibbs and bill crystal, still with us. bill, let me ask you, there are clearly some ...

Because this is our shot... ...at getting back together. the reality is that what we see happening in texas is not just texas. this is going on in the entire country. so i really do implore our lawmakers to understand that democracy is on the line. this filibuster issue, we need to hand bel that to save our very democracy we say we love so much in this country. >> texas republicans are gearing up for second attempt to pass some of the strictest voting restrictions in the country. first bill temporarily killed when democrats staged a walkout in may as it was going to be passed. governor greg ...

At the capitol and i think that's a shame. >> that is, of course, an obstacle. the democrats have run into repeatedly, even with having both the senate and the house and the white house here. and i just wonder, when you look at something like that, urgent security changes to the capitol, but also voting rights legislation that run consistently into that filibuster issue, and frankly, you have two democratic senators resisting changing or reforming filibuster rules. from your point of view, given those frustrations, do you believe it's time to reform or change the filibuster? >> i think that we...