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>> i am very encouraged by this. also by what i am saying in the senate. i think we are moving to a point where there is a much broader understanding that this has to happen. and this is going to happen to happen without republican support, so they are going to have to change the rules to make it happen. just a word on rand paul, this is not the first time we have seen the level of breathtaking hypocrisy by republicans in congress. many of whom, staunchly opposed aid when it came to hurricane sandy for a new york in new jersey. then turned around when it was mississippi or alabama, or kentucky...

Breathtaking hypocrisy by republicans in congress, many of whom staunchly opposed aid when it came to hurricane sandy in new york and new jersey, is and then turned around when it was mississippi or alabama or kentucky they wanted it. but for paul who's opposed aid because he says it has to be offset with the same -- with his offsets, there wasn't any word of that now. it raises the stakes here in many ways getting back to voting rights because it makes it clear that if we don't make changes in the election system, we're not just going to lose our democracy. we're going to have it taken over b...

Infrastructure, mazie hirono is going to be on with anna cabrera later this afternoon. quote, if we don't make changes to the filibuster, i think we're going to look at losing the house and the senate anyway." that's a big call. is she right? >> so you're hearing that a lot, just the dire consequence of keeping the full buster in place from the left. a lot of joe biden's agenda items are stuck because they aren't able to get 60 votes or republicans to agree to these proposals. the problem is that you have a lot of democrats. like joe manchin, kristen cinema are not going to vote to get rid of ...

For our democracy right now. thank god we had prosecutors like andrew weissmann holding the president accountable at the time. but if we don't make changes and we don't make them quickly, we could see the rule of law seriously erode. >> andrew weissmann, what did you learn in don mcgahn's testimony to the judiciary committee? >> well, i think it is important to first note what we didn't learn, because it is important to note that what don mcgahn testified to was that the report was accurate. in other words all of the skirmishing by the president and his allies about this being a witch hunt and...

Still means something. i wish it would have meant something two years ago when we asked mr. mcgahn to come in. but we did ultimately prevail. more importantly, it showed just how close we came to a true constitutional crisis in our country. and that this is not a 500 year fly type of situation, that this could happen again under more competent, corrupt president. so what we could do, well, adam schiff has the protecting our democracy act. which would make a lot of reforms around presidential abuses. i also believe that president biden can instruct his attorney general to lift the department of...