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What robert bird did. first, robert bird blocked the civil rights act and he wasn't proud of it. he repented. more so, he didn't agree with this kind of filibuster. he was for the filibuster where you have to stay there and fight and speak all night. that's not what we have today. what we have today is not a filibuster but interposition and nullification, just people quit stopping the work of the senate. and that's not america. and that's not democracy, and that's why people are going to speak out. >> bishop william barber, as always, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. god bl...

Senator burned -- bird rather. well what is your sense of how joe manchin now lines up with senator bird or what he might mess in senator bird's legacy? >> i think he misses very much what robert bird was all about. he thinks bird was dead set against any change and set of rules, and dead set in keeping the filibuster as it was. i knew him pretty well and talk to him about these issues many times. to follow on iris, he cared about the integrity of the senate and the norms of the senate. there were times when i spoke to him and he would be furious about, for example, democratic. a senator in al...

All right i am standing on lawrence is real estate at this point so that's going to do it for me tonight i'll see you again tomorrow night now it's time for the last word with the aforementioned lawrence o'donnell. good evening lawrence. >> good evening rachel and we have something special tonight since the joe mentioned story has become what it is and you know, 200 years from now when that biden musical was written there's bound to be a song, how do you solve a problem like joe manchin, right? that's gotta be in there, right? but here's what we have. i'm gonna have three people talking about ...

Out. what i would argue is, it's hard enough to have support from legislation with the president, the house, and the senate, with 50 or 51 votes. the 60 vote supermajority is an unacceptable burden, we shouldn't live with it. >> we will have to break it there. friends of robert bird, friends of democracy. thank you for joining us you to. really appreciated. >> thanks lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, colin allred is a voting rights attorney who has worked with marc elias who is currently challenging the voter suppression laws in the country. colin has been there as well, he's now a democratic...