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Earlier today defense secretary lloyd austin offered his own heart felt reaction. >> i lost a tremendous personal friend and mentor. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just learning of this just recently. first african-american chairman of the joint chiefs, first african-american secretary of state, a man who was respected around the globe and who will be quite frankly it is not possible to replace a colin powell. >> harris: loved and respected by so many. robert will key former trump secretary who served with general powell in the bush administration and family friend of the powells is st...

Which is the second largest voting block. they're expecting the president to react more radically in the face of ida, climate change, afghanistan, refugees, texas with the supreme court and women being denied access to reproductive rights. people want to see a much more progressive, much more progressive, which does make it difficult for a kind of middle-of-the-road democrats, but that's where i think that they lose. >> robert, you talk about the fact that voting rights is correlated with the economy. weigh in on that for me, first and foremost. and if bernie sanders were sitting thon panel --...

Do you think because of this deadline, do you think they should be voting in tandem on infrastructure and reconciliation or separate? you're asking me? >> yes, robert. sorry. >> i think they have to vote in tandem. that's what she promised the progressives, and she said there would be a vote. she said to the so-called mod squad on the hill, there would be a vote by the 27th, but it's going to be at the same time as the vote on the $3.5 trillion. so she's got to somehow have enough of a bill in front of her to put them both before the house at exactly the same time. it's going to be a very roug...

Inside these bills? >> no, not at all. >> yeah. >> in fact, what i think is worrisome, in the last administration, there was so much bluster, people were paying attention all the time. now people are like we're in this plateau of the pandemic that won't go away. desperation. robert was right at the top. how do you get people to understand and grasp this. it's very difficult. there's a lot of suffering going on right now. that's what we're talking about. i'm not sure how we're going to make it through except for helping one another, which is kind of desperate. >> i was going to say, it's very h...

Think they can do it? that to me sounds far out. i'm just putting that out there. >> look. >> listen. anything is possible. maria, weigh in for me first. >> here's what i think. okay. we're making some generalizations. the people really would like to see much more -- i don't know. susan is going to agree with this, but robert will. radically more progressive. so the kind of chipping away makes it difficult. on the other hand voting rights is essential. otherwise this democracy will fall apart. i think what needs to happen with the democrats, they need to maintain control of the narrative, do n...