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Today they reiterated the opposition to majority rule in the senate. >> i have long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of the nation. when you have a system not working effectively the way to fix it is to change your behavior. you are not going to budge on the filibuster? >> no. >> this is the fork in the road, the biden agenda, climate future. or will they allow the forces of reaction to further degrade american democracy? now president obama has jumped into the fray with his thoughts on what democrats need to do

Not ready to give up on it then. but since then going to the to the eulogy of the john lewis memorial, if it is getting in the way of democracy, it is time for it to go. but democrats cannot get rid of it if joe manchin and kyrsten sinema won't let them. there is a lot of advice that obama gives democrats in our conversation about what don't you say. what do you do to work in a pluralistic way with people you don't agree with and how do you calm their anxieties to win the amount of power necessary to govern in a country that requires super majorities. >> megan, i think sinema and manchin are w...

Of good. >> that's right. i disagree with as, we are no fans, the filibuster will go. i think this is a stark twist. do you want to do stuff, or do you not want to? not doing staff in this instance means letting our democracy fall. that's really how stark it is and where we are. we are at the edge of a cliff. republicans are ready to pushes right over. at the end of the day, i don't think these two are gonna want to be the ones named in history books as the ones that let that happen. it's really not that complicated. just to stuff people. like there is no constituency in the united states for ...

Gerry six. you can seem astronaut and his wife here in the crowd at the capitol on the six. today, mastery otto is out in our zone of trying to run here discolored's on it. what's going on in arizona with a ballot recount almost seems like kospi. like a children summer camp where they get to be pretend to be wizards and witches at hogwarts. they're bunch of maga volunteers pretended to conduct a recount. here's the thing, they are doing it with actual ballots. those are the ballots. because the arizona republicans used the power they have, the machinery of the state to actually turn them over....

Trump Calling Supporters To Capitol For ‘Wild Time’ When Electoral Vote Is Ratified Photo by Darron Birgenheier/ CC BY-SA 2.0 Reprinted with permission from Alternet On Jan. 6, Mike Pence is scheduled to sit down in front of the Senate in his role as president of that body. Pence will open up the box of votes. Then Joe Biden officially wins. It's an absolutely ceremonial role, defined under the Twelfth Amendment in these terms: The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall ...