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Nine months to push it? >> we didn't. we passed it through the house of representatives and they weren't able to bring it up and i think what chuck schumer has clearly been trying to do, and i think it's shown in so many instances, notwithstanding the fact we have unanimity on some issues that are pending in the senate, we don't have the 60 votes that you need to break the filibuster. we need to get rid of the filibuster. the filibuster was never contemplated by the founders. the founders absolutely believed that the senate, like the house, would operate by majority rules. that's the basis of ...

Separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. eliminating the 60-vote threshold will simply guarantee we lose our critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy from threats in the years to come. >> so think about what senator sinema just said there for a minute. she's basically refusing to accept a carveout of the filibuster to pass two voting rights bills because she supposedly worried about safeguarding our democracy. it just really begs the question. how dumb does she think we are? because sinema and manchin aren't willing to compromise on th...

Orientation in schools, all of them are going to be passed on a party line majority rules basis in the state legislature. to the extent they face court challenges, this republican majority in the supreme court is going to either enable or uphold them on a majority rules party line basis. but the lgbtq equality act that passed the house on a party line basis is being blocked in the senate because it needs a supermajority, a bipartisan supermajority because of the filibuster. the voting rights act that would undo many of the things they did in florida passed the house but is being blocked in the...

Rights on a whole bunch of fronts. if you look at what's happening in florida, whether it's this proposed 15-week abortion ban, whether it's the ban on transgender athletes, whether it's the voting restrictions, whether it's this, you know, denial of the existence of gender identity or sexual orientation in schools, all of them are going to be passed on a party line majority rules basis in the state legislature. to the extent they face court challenges, this republican majority in the supreme court is going to either enable or uphold them on a majority rules party line basis. but the lgbtq equ...

World to come forward, so that they can animate for the american people how donald trump decided this mob against capital to overturn every american -- every american's vote, and to put it in the hands of a person rather than of the hands of people. and that is, frankly with this upcoming election is going to be about. one party believes in majority rules, and that means that on climate, on women's rights, they can make their own health care decisions, on childcare, tax credit, the majority will decide whether we have those things or not. one party believes in violence. one party believes in n...