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Voting rights act. now, in 2006 that was such an extreme position that 98 republicans in the senate -- i'm sorry, 98 senators voted in favor of reauthorization of the voting rights act. not a single dissenting vote in the senate. it was signed into law by a conservative president george bush. and yet here we are in 2021 be adam kinzinger actually marks kind of the midway point in the press coverage of democracy because of his position on -- on the january 6th commission. rather than representing a still extreme position in opposing voting rights. so that's really my main critique, the goal pos...

Pay. but he's willing to be up front and honest. i just don't think he put it out publicly because he wanted to get something done and thought this was the best way to do it. >> some are going to disagree whether or not he's been negotiating in good faith. this is from january. this is senator manchin speaking in west virginia. >> the most important thing, do a big infrastructure. spend 3, 4, $10 trillion over a three year period on infrastructure. so he's willing to spend $4 trillion. now he's saying it's only 1.5. why's he moving the goal posts here? what he's saying in public that he's will...

This is senator manchin speaking in west virginia. >> the most important thing, do a big infrastructure. spend 3, 4, $10 trillion over a three year period on infrastructure. so he's willing to spend $4 trillion. now he's saying it's only 1.5. why's he moving the goal posts here? what he's saying in public that he's willing to spend that much money on infrastructure and then turn around and say it's fiscal insanity now saying he wants 1.5 trillion. why the move in goal posts? >> i think he was saying he thought we could spend a lot of money on infrastructure. i think there's a different definit...

Taking sides here that a better half than none. something that has bipartisan support could make them all look good because at least that package has -- polls better than this monster they're working on and they're not allowing that. i'm wondering where this is going. >> historically the democrats have been very effective at expanding government by doing it rerentlessly a pest at a time. they get half a loaf and come back a week legislative and ask for another half a loaf. the progressives have moved the goal posts so far that even a couple of trillion dollars in a span of a few months seems n...

Caucus for the bill and decide to bring it for a vote. she doesn't like to bring votes for a fail. progressives have promised to vote this down if they didn't get not just an agreement but a text and a vote on the reconciliation package, which is not possible today. it is not even in its final form. so to get that vote on the bif today, you can't do that without the text and the conditions that they were setting the goal posts were impossible. even this morning congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez said that the progressives were holding out for the conditions, the text and the vote. without...