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Voting rights. there was one democrat noticeably missing from the event, vote right dwoes date stacey abrams who cited a scheduling done khan afflict. the president and abrams have been close and he noted today saying we have a great relationship. when pushing back on a question about her not attending calling it a scheduling mix-up. and may recall when then-candidate biden was looking for a running mate, abrams was among the women reportedly considered. joining me for their perspective on this is cnn political commentator, former special adviser of president obama, van jones. also, cnn co-cane core of state of the union, dana bash. dana, do you buy the idea stacey abrams had a scheduling problem? well, never mind what i think. democrats i talk to in and around biden world don t buy it. not for a second. and the president was maybe being polite, maybe trying to diffuse a pretty bad situation when he said that. when he was going out to the helicopter today. but uh, this is an ....
Kp exhausted, neglected, et cetera. so there is a bitterness there that speaks more to to to just burnout, i think, than strategy. and then, if you are stascey abrams, these are the folks that have to carry you into the gov governor s mansion so stacey abrams is kind of caught between biden trying to get something done, not being able to get it done, and a grassroots that s fatigued so she is not there. dana is 100% right. we are missing we have got the emphasis on the wrong syllable here. the big news is that president biden has come out. biden has come out. he has called for a constitutional carve-out to the filibuster to defend the right to vote. this is what the grassroots movement has been asking for, has been calling for, has been demanded. and they won today and i think it s a very big deal. there is nobody who respects the u.s. senate more than joe biden. there is nobody who cares more about those rules and cherishes ....