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To the filibuster rules to get this through congress. >> i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure that congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, it's like voting rights, it should be we provide an exception for this. require an exception to the filibuster for this action. >> exception to the filibuster. when asked to clarify, the president said he is in favor of making an exception to the filibuster to protect privacy rights, a central component of the roe decision. senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema support codifying a...

United States President Joe Biden has called on the Senate to end filibuster rules to allow lawmakers to pass abortion rights into law. The remarks come after the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to pass their own abortion rights laws.

It was a big deal when he said it for voting rights. and it is a big deal that he's saying it on this issue. for lots of reasons, not the least of which is that he is a senator at heart, and he is an institutionalist when it comes to the united states senate. we should keep in mind, kaitlan mentioned this, but it bears repeating, this is about the bully pulpit. this is not likely to change the reality in the senate, which is that the vice president was right. they don't have the votes. there are two democratic senators who don't -- at least, who don't want to change the filibuster rules. >> ni...

Blanched. >> shannon: harold, and want to ask you about something that "the wall street journal" cautioned democrats saying i would change to the filibuster rule will open doors to republicans for what they want to pass, we saw this when harry reid change the rules on judges and saw that that was where they let us, do you think there should be caution for democrats filling out the filibuster at this point? >> i've never one that is a big believer in changing the filibuster rules, i understand the impulse on a lot of the democrats, but you take that energy and channel it at the ballot box. i th...

His pain, because i know what it's hike to be sitting in these situations and being pummelled by elements of your own -- of your own community. >> today, in addition to criticizing the court's decision to get rid of roe v. wade, joe biden called for a change in the senate rules, the filibuster rules. that doesn't seem like it's going to happen, and it also seems to me, just as an observer of somebody who has been around enough to see the house and senate flip control from democrat to republican. shortsighted. you can change the rules and pass a codify case of roe v. wade, although there aren't...