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Rev. Jesse Jackson and about 20 other activists were arrested after a nonviolent protest outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

As you saw by the vote today. so, we are not ending this fights. and one of the ways in which we do that is getting out of this capitol dome, and heading out to the states so we can hear from people and still my colleagues can hear them, because it is hard to hide when you have people talking about standing in ten our lines without food and water, or people trying to find one drop ballot box in harris county texas a 5 million people, or the discriminatory voting practices, or six states still requiring notarized signatures from notary publics just to get an application for an absentee ballot. ...

Infrastructure week. hopefully this is the last one we'll have. we need to come to a bipartisan agreement in my opinion to make sure we fund bridges and roads and tunnels and broadband and frankly we also need to come to an agreement on what would be considered soft or human infrastructure. if you asked me last week at this time if we'd have a new federal holiday i would probably have asked you what you were talking about so anything is possible in washington, d.c., bipartisanly and this is essential we get together. >> you bring up juneteenth. there has been some criticism within the span of ...

Or legitimize the voting right i.t. after requirements many states have, but make the kind of i.d. that you can use more flexible. in alabama and other states that do this, the restrictions are really strong. in texas, you can vote with her gun license, but you can't vote with your college i.d.. manchin would let people use things like utility bills, and other sorts of material that would firmly established their identity, that would make what we know to be the absolutely minimal risk of fraud clear after trump's big lie in the way he litigated. broad is not impacting elections in america. man...

Religious liberty case. philadelphia froze the contract of a catholic foster care agency because the agency refused to work with same sex couples as potential parents. the agency turned around and sued and said that's a violation of our free exercise rights. this court has already the conservative court moved the court to the right when it comes to religious liberty. we'll see how far they go to talk about what the government can do to limit laws that impinge on religious freedom. then there's an interesting voting right case, a lower court struck down two provisions of arizona voting rights l...