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Thatstopped the bill there. representative, thank you for being with us. i appreciate you taking the time. >> happy friday. >> indeed. it has been, i know, a big week and likely a big weekend with this capital steps rally in austin. let me ask you where you think you are in the fight. how durable you think the victory is that you achieved in the legislature, you and your caucus, and how hopeful you are about further progress. >> listen, we are at that crucial moment. you have to go hard or go home. america is now talking about voting rights. we need real reform. we have a chance. we are holdin...

On katy perry's instagram, which has 123 million followers, you can watch that and then click through to an explainer about the for the people act. the phone number to call your senator. a simple script to use when making your call. it's a good effort, very well organized. but realistically right now, regardless of the amount of public pressure on this thing, it does still seem like there is a brick wall. with more time help? if senator joe manchin is trying doggedly to move republicans to vote for some kind of voting bill, would more time for him to do that help? probably not. would it move a...

Legislation they were working on at the time. they gave themselves time to do it. they gave themselves effectively more power by giving themselves more time at work to use the majority they fought so hard for. before they lost that majority in the next election. why don't >> democrats do that this year. they would give themselves effectively more power and more options. by giving themselves more time at work to do stuff while they have this precious majority that history says they are likely to lose in the next election. and conceivably they could even lose before then. whether your for the de...

>> if you look at the amount of work that we have to do, it's inconceivable to me that we can't use these weeks. we've got this backlog of combinations. just to summit, up we have enough work to do for the american people that we should be here during these weeks. everybody should anticipate that we will be here as i announce today. >> everybody should anticipate we will be here as i announce today. but he had announced that day, was 2018, trump was president, republicans were in control of the senate. when he announced today they were canceled the august recess ivan totally canceled they shor...

A brick wall on the way of passing it through the senate. would more time help? if senator joe manchin is trying to move republicans to vote for some kind of voting bill, would more time for him to do that help? probably not. wouldn't move any republicans, i don't think. would more time convince him it's never going to happen and there are ways to pass voting rights without republicans? which he should support, since he gave it his all. maybe that would help. it would probably help more than senators catching up on their summer reading while they burned up another month off their time holding ...