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welcome back to state of the union. that was kyrsten sinema explaining her decision to change her party from democrat to independent. let s talk about it with our panel. good morning everybody. congressman allred, you are a member of congress, a sitting member of congress. one of your colleagues, congressman jamaal bowman tweeted the following, bye fill lish yeah after news broke about si sinema. he s a progressive and not upset to see her leave. should democrats get behind an alternative officially on the d column like your colleague ruben geauga. a lot of us who represent districts that got elected take issue with the idea that this is about principles when it s really about politics. she was likely going to lose her next primary, and that s why she s doing this. ....
Going his own way, independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. senator, first, you are an independent. she is now the third official independent of the u.s. senate joining you and angus king of maine. what do you think of her decision and also what you just heard in her interview with jake? i don t want to spend a whole lot of time on senator sinema. she has her reasons. dana, i happen to suspect it s a lot to do with politics back in arizona. i think the democrats there are not all that enthusiastic about somebody who helped sabotage some of the most important legislation that protects the interests of working families and voting rights and so forth. so i think it really has to do with her political aspirations for the future in arizona. but for us i think nothing much has changed in terms of the functions of the u.s. senate. the good news is we now have 51 ....
Track to pass a major part of the biden administration. it would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history and make big changes to healthcare policy. republicans are fighting gagaint it right now, but it appears that all 50 democrats are on the same page. si sinema offered her support this week. jessica dean is on capitol hill for us. we ve learned there has been some pretty serious movement. i guess getting this ball down the field. what s happened? absolutely. get it rolling. this is breaking news that we ve just gotten in the last five minutes or so. that is that we have bill text and we have a ruling or the congressional budget office has come back and said this is all good, that they can move forward. so now what we re expecting is for chuck schumer to go to the senate floor and make some ....
Cornyn, thom tillis, kirsyrsten si sinema, thanks. was it improvement? yes. did it do enough? no, in my estimation it didn t touch the basic issue hire that we are selling firearms and weapons to americans that are military-grade weapons for killing human beings. listen to the doctors carefully describe the patients who lost their lives and say that the average person couldn t stand to even see what happened to them. this is not a bullet hole. many times this is a shredding device which just kills people in a gruesome, awful way. right. it was designed for war. we now have between 10 million and 20 million of these ar-15s in america. what do you say to people i mean, i think you can acknowledge i have covered capitol hill for long enough to know that there is little, zero ....
Strikingly, that he is willing to do a carveout in the filibuster for roe and the right to privacy, it will be huge news here because this is a president who has been very unwilling so far to talk about what has to happen to the filibuster. he is, you know, an old timer from the senate, in the senate for 36 years, and appreciates the virtues of the filibuster, shall we say. and at this point, for him to come out and say that is a very big deal from this white house. the question, of course, now, is whether he can convince democrats, a couple of democrats, joe manchin, kyrsten si sinema, to go along with him on that and say, look, we really have to get this done. i think that what he is saying to the american public here is this is a life changing issue for many americans, mostly ....