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Know, i know, i know. we can handle it. cheryl said it's worse than it's ever been. we've made so much strides and pride but let's be clear, the seeds of hate are flowering all throughout our system. i believe in young people. i believe in coalitions. if we come together, we'll work together and come together and work in positive fashion. >> pray for me, aunt gloria. >> i'm praying for you. >> seriously, ralph, on the question of the republican party and what's happened to it, do you think it could go back to what it was pre-trump? it was far right and

And through trying to find something to do with that pain, i found the homeless. a friend of mine asked me if i would like to come out with him to feed the home meless one day with another nonprofit and i went out there and i fell in love with the community from day one. i was like y'all aren't broken, you are just like me, let's go, you know? >> and so you are out there, and did you -- did the idea come to you then or how did you get the idea? because there are so many ways to help the homeless, but what made you think that this was something that needed and something that could help them? >>...

>> reporter: well, let's be clear, they're going out and trying to get tested, right, jim. if you look at what happened here, earlier this morning folks came out here, there was a long line of people out here. turns out that was the line for the wait list. there are 158 people on the wait list at this location alone. they're no longer taking new appointments. that gives you a sense of the need at this one location where we are. mayor de blasio says the city is going to open new test sites by the end of the week. in addition to that, what we're seeing in the state and the city are the numbers c...

Better. >> and michelle, yesterday, the reaction to senator mansion, what senator mansion had to say was swift and it was harsh and you had progressives out there immediately saying we told y'all this was going to happen. take a look. you had a.o.c. from new york tweeting out a hand full of us warned this would happen. the dem leaders warned us. many ridiculed our position and you can also see congresswoman ilhan omar says let's be clear, mansion's excuses bull puck, that's not what she wrote but that's what i'm saying. it hard to say that they're wrong but where do we go from here? where do y...

Important thing we have to do. the congressional black caucus prioritized this for the entire year. we've prioritized eliminating the filibuster. we would sell it for reforming the filibuster and getting voting rights through. let's be clear. the filibuster is the journey of the minority. it gives the power to the republican minority in congress to continue to use the filibuster as a means for stopping any civil rights legislation. it's a relic of jim crowe. that's how it's been used before. that's how it's being used today. so any of the reforms would be welcome as long as they go far enough ...