that is all the time i have for today. see you back here tomorrow for more "american voices." for now over to my colleague ayman. >> thank you so much. enjoy the rest of your evening, and good evening, everyone and welcome to "ayman." republicans continue to block any movement on voting rights. so will democrats finally decide to end the filibuster? plus, it's a democratic senator, kyrsten sinema who is blocking movement on president biden's agenda. we're going to speak to a veteran and former sinema adviser who now calls her an obstacle to progress. and despite all of that, a deal may be just around the corner, believe it or not. democrats are expecting a vote on both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the build back better bill just in time for some key governor races in virginia and new jersey.

we're going to have an update on those for you. i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. all right, so the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol took a major step this week. on thursday the house voted to find former trump adviser steve bannon in contempt of congress after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the riots. nine republicans joined all house democrats in that vote, and now that resolution is heading to the department of justice where bannon could face possible criminal prosecution. the investigation into that deadly attack on the capitol, though, is still in its early stages, but if you ask former secretary of state condoleezza rice, it might already be time to move on. watch. >>. >> first of all, let me be very clear. i said at the time january 6th was wrong. i called it an assault on law and order and an assault on the democratic processes. now, i think what senator mcconnell may be referencing, is

yes, it's time to move on in a lot of ways. >> yeah. >> i'm one who believes that the american people are now concerned about their what we call kitchen table issues, the price of gasoline, inflation, what's happening to kids in school. >> now, at the same time the gop is actually urging us to move on, republicans at the state level are actually passing laws that will make it easier for them to do what trump couldn't do in 2020. just this year alone, 19 states have passed over 30 laws that make it harder for people to vote. in texas, that state's already restrictive voting laws were tightened even further with new restrictions on processes like mail-in voting. but don't worry, they did include some new protections for partisan poll watchers. over in georgia, that state's republican governor signed a law that replaces the elected secretary of state as the chair of the state election board with a new appointee decided upon by

the state legislator, which, you guessed it, just so happens to be controlled by republicans. now, former president obama returned to the campaign trail today for virginia's governor race and specifically candidate terry mcauliffe. he spoke about the ongoing threat to our democracy and republicans like mcauliffe's opponent glenn youngkin who can't or won't speak out against these bills. they're trying to make you forget about january 6th rather than forcefully condemning it. >> what are you willing to stand up for? when are you willing to say no to your own supporters? when are you willing to say there's some things that are more important than getting elected and maybe american democracy is one of those things. >> all right, so this week alone, congressional democrats once again tried to pass legislation to protect american democracy. once again, they failed. that's despite the bill, the freedom to vote act being specifically redesigned to gain bipartisan support. in fact, senator joe manchin

actually helped negotiate that bill, you know, the senator who's big on bipartisan efforts. that bill included provisions, popular provisions like making election day a holiday, enacting automatic and same day voter registration, and expanding early and mail-in voting. but on wednesday, not a single republican, not one republican even voted to open up debate for the legislation, and so the bill met the same fate as its predecessors. blocked by a republican filibuster. now you're probably sick of hearing about the dreaded f word, but this latest failure is set to thrust the 60-vote threshold into the spotlight once again. is there a path forward for filibuster reform in this country? on the republican side no gop lawmakers have come out in support of reform. that shouldn't be surprising since they aren't the minority party, but it's important to remember this, that republicans had no problem eliminaing the filibuster for supreme court justices in 2017. and this kind of flip-flopping

on the procedural rule is not uncommon. in 2017, former president trump urged senate republicans to get rid of the filibuster. before changing course, once the gop was out of power. as for the democrats we know the two senators who are most vocal in their opposition to filibuster reform. they're senators manchin and sinema. according to reporting from earlier this year, the worst kept secret in washington is that the two aren't alone in their opposition. as long as they hold the line, any kind of meaningful filibuster reform is off the table for now, but change is possible. i mean, just take a look at president biden. he was a senator for over three decades, has long been a supporter of the filibuster, but watch what happened this week. >> if, in fact, i get myself into at this moment the debate on the filibuster, i lose at least three votes right now to get what i have to get done on

the economic side of the equation. but i also think we're going to have to move to the point where we fundamentally alter the filibuster. >> when it comes to voting rights, just so i'm clear, though, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue, is that correct? >> and maybe more. >> all right, so that begs the question, president biden, how long can we afford to wait in this country? right now it's a simple choice for those in power. the filibuster or american democracy. it's that simple. joining me now to discuss this and more and people who actually know what they're talking about, alysia garza, the principal of the black for the future action fund and cofounder of the black lives #metoo matter. and chris haynes, a professor of political science and national security at the university of new haven. it's great to have both of you with us. i'll start by sharing this headline from "the washington post," no issue is more important than voting rights. it goes on to say voting rights

are not just one more item affixed to an ambitious presidential agenda. equal access to voting is an american bedrock. republican state legislators across the country are targeting democratic constituencies putting the very same policy agenda the president is pursuing in jeopardy come next election. so do you think that the president and the democratic party here are failing to meet the moment in the severity of this crisis? >> well, thank you, first of all, for having me, and absolutely. there's no question that the president and democrats are failing to meet the moment, particularly as it relates to the power that was given to them by black voters. black voters are the reason, a major reason why democrats have majorities in the senate, in the house, and why democrats are in the white house and, you know, when we were on the campaign trail in 2020, the president and democrats were telling black communities that, you know, if

we stood up and pushed them forward that we would get a whole agenda of issues that we cared about from voing rights to health care to infrastructure relief from covid-19, and actually what we're seeing is that all of these things that were on the agenda, all of these things that got black voters to the polls are the very things that are being stymied right now from voting rights to police reform. black voters are not seeing the kinds of things that we want to see. now, the reason for that, of course, as you alluded to, has everything to do with the ways in which republicans are using procedure to block progress, and this isn't a recent phenomenon. in fact, the filibuster has been used many, many times to block progress in relationship to civil rights often for black people, and so i think it's time for the president and democrats in this moment to step up for the constituencies that stepped

up for them. but bigger than black voters, it's time for the president and for democrats to step up for democracy. what we know is that democracy is fragile and it's fleeting, and this is not a time to play games or play procedure. right now the country is in crisis, and we need the party in power to step up to ensure that democracy can continue. >> and speaking of democracy, professor haynes, this is senator angus king who only recently came around to the filibuster reform. he was on rachel maddow earlier this week. here's what he said. >> you can get 41 votes out of the current senate, which was enough to block any legislation, and if you take the states that those 41 senators represent, add all the population together, you get 24% of the american people. so the situation we're in now is that 24% of the american people have an effective veto over anything that 76% of the american people think is

important public policy. i don't think that squares with democratic theory. >> so professor, what do you make of senator king's agent there? how does the senate today and the use of the filibuster square up with what the founders intended? because as we just heard from the senator there, you know, 41 votes is all it takes, and they represent nearly 26% of the population. that is by no means a functioning democracy when that minority population can block the will of 76% or 75% or what have you. >> yeah, well, thank you, ayman for having me here tonight. the founders wanted our congress to consider these types of legislation in a very deliberate way, especially in the senate, but it's a popular myth that the filibuster was a piece of that story there. the filibuster was never part of the original constitution, and in a lot of ways, it was just an accident that it came about. vice president aaron burr just

suggested getting rid of the previous question motion, which allowed senators or house members currently to cut debate with a simple majority. and so, you know, in a lot of ways, i think, you know, there's a lot of misinformation about what went on, what the founders intended. they intended for a lot of deliberation, for consideration, but they did not intend, i believe, for stone walling. >> really quickly, professor, how do you counter the argument made by some republicans that -- or at least some critics of the filibuster who say that if the democrats do away with it now, republicans will come into power in two, four, six years from now and completely undo everything whether it is shoring up voting rights for minorities or climate change or anything else that the democrats try to pass now. it just makes it that much more vulnerable to repeat once the democrats lose power. >> you know, it's a very interesting argument, but that process has already started.

in 2013 and '17, we've already done away with -- we've already made carved out exceptions for executive nominations and judicial nominees to have -- to be able to pass by simple majority votes. the republicans and mitch mcconnell have made it very clear that this is something that they probably would not think twice about doing. and so to not act for fear that you -- the republicans would do the same, it almost seems as if the republicans are going to do it anyway. >> so to that extent, alicia, how concerned are you that if the democrats do, in fact, pass voter protection laws and voting rights laws that don't have bipartisan support, then simply four years from now, two years from now, if they lose control, those things are just going to get thrown out the window and we're right back to square one. the argument is do the harder work now, try to build that bipartisan support and then you can ultimately get a meaningful piece of legislation that both

sides believe and would endure. >> well, i think two things on this piece. number one, what we know is that when you win real things for real people your party stays in power. and that has always been the key ticket for democrats to stay in power and to get power. and what we need to see moving forward is them doing just that. win real things for real people. that way midterm elections aren't going to be that much of an anxiety producing process for you. you know you delivered on the promises you put out during your campaigning. but the second issue here that i think is really important is that i think what we're not taking into account when we start talking about bipartisanship is that actually the parties have changed drastically over the last decade. this is not the republican party of the 1990s. this republican party has gone to extremes and has become an extremist party, and so essentially what your trying to

do is find middle ground between extreme and the center. and that's going to be a much harder process to accomplish, especially when you're not focused on winning real things for real people. that's why at the black to the future action fund, we're calling on congress and we're cal on the biden/harris administration to take bold action or prepare to go home. that is literally what we can expect in 2022 unless the voters that turned out in 2020 start to see some concrete results and material changes in our lives. >> let's talk a little bit about this administration, alicia. earlier this year, the niemts reported white house officials and close allies of the president expressed confidence that it's possible to out organize voter suppression. a lot of people think that is not accurate, it's not possible to do that. have you heard that message from the white house? do you feel that organizations like yours are on their own to solve this issue at the state level? and is it even possible to out organize voter suppression laws

in this country? >> it is not possible to out organize voter suppression laws in this country, just to be frank. what it is possible to do, right, is to flex the power that black voters handed to you to get you in the position of pwer that you're in right now. i think when we start to say things like out organize rotor suppression at the state level, essentially what we're doing is punting the ball. what we have to do is make sure that we're winning real things for real people and it starts with voting rights. if people do not have the ability to make decisions and weigh in on the decisions that shape their lives every single day, that is exactly where we start to see the erosion of democracy. when we look at state legislatures across the country, we have to understand that the conservative movement has far out organized -- far out organized us, and, in fact, they have a majority of control in state houses across the nation. it's up to the federal government, and it's up to the

president to set the tone for what is going to be the bedrock of democracy in this nation, and we can't keep punting the ball down the field. in fact, that's exactly how we got donald trump. we started to punt the ball down the field and talk about how it wasn't that big of a deal, how we needed to listen to all sides, and that's how we got here right now. somebody has to tell the truth, and somebody's got to set the tone. that's what we've done with the build back boldly mandate, and that's what the president needs to do. he needs to make good on the promises he made to our communities and to voters across the nation, but he also needs to set the tone for what democracy is going to look like and how this country is going to run. and unfortunately, he's falling short of that right now. >> professor haynes, one more to you, and it's a point that alicia brought up, and that has to do with the state legislators. is it a little bit too late, even if you do away with the filibusters and pass some type of voting rights act, is it too late given where the supreme court has come down on this and the whey that state legislators

are redrawing maps, at the same time passing these restrictive voting laws that voting rights are being eroded and what is on the table right now is just simply not enough to preserve our democracy and undo all the damage that's been done? >> yeah, in a lot of ways what's proposed in the freedom to vote act is just the bare minimum of what is probably necessary to combat what's going on out there in terms of voter suppression. a lot of damage has been done, especially by supreme court chief justice john roberts' decision to eviscerate the voting rights act and especially precarious position there. it really is problematic what is going on. it's necessary, i believe, for our congress to level with what the supreme court was saying, which was go ahead and legislate voting rights and the only way to do that at this point is to modify the filibuster, is to

modify standing precedent of the senate rules and allow for majority votes, you know, carveouts for things like voting legislation and election legislation. >> yeah, we've been trying to ring the alarm bells at least on this show that the biggest threat to our democracy right now in getting anything done and certainly the things to preserve our democracy like voting rite rights is the filibuster. alicia garza, chris haynes, thank you so much for your time. coming up, a republican delegation is going to the u.n. climate summit for the first time, but what is their actual true motivation? five military veterans advising senator kyrsten sinema resigned this week. we're going to tell you what's behind their change of heart. they customize my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. how about a throwback? ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ with voltaren arthritis pain gel my husband's got his moves back.

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house democrats expect a vote next week on both bipartisan infrastructure and president biden's build back better deals. there's no deal yet, just to be clear.

that's in thanks in no small part to kyrsten sinema, the lesser known member of the manchin duo. mention of the duo but unlike senator joe manchin hails from the red state of west virginia, arizona trending blue, and sinema's beginning to experience what the "new york times" describes as a "crescendo of anger and pressure" allies saying they are perplexed by her recent tactics. on thursday five members of the senator's veteran advisory council resigned accusing her of being one of the principle obstacles of progress because she refuses to back provisions of president biden's agenda. the group says support veteran communities and protect the very heart and soul of this nation. here's a bit of the ad released by the veterans' group. >> as members your veterans advisory council we feel we are being used as window dressing for your own image and not to provide council on what's best for arizonans. are you choosing to answer to big donors rather than arizonans?

you are a no-show on the vote to establish a commission to investigate the insurrection. these are not the actions of a maverick. as such we respectfully resign from your veterans advisory council. >> rick peterson. >> dana allman. >> call on senator sinema to support the build back better act now. >> very powerful ad. my next guest is an army veteran who had worked with senator sinema. back in 2018 she advised him as a proud member. david lucier, welcome and thank you for joining us. i appreciate you making time. i want to play for you and our viewers a part of that video you did back in 2018. watch. >> she is strongly supportive of veterans in education and training, in jobs and economic

opportunity and in health and wellness. any name is david lucier, and i'm a proud member of team sinema. >> you were once a proud member of team sinema, what has changed since then that caused you to change your mind, and what was the final straw for you? >> well, ayman, thank you so much for this opportunity. this is hugely important to our community, veterans' community, and american citizens across the country, and i just want to thank you for that and all the members and the family of msnbc. they're a hugely important voice. what changed in a word, everything. it was -- and as you had mentioned, i as well as some others had worked with her at the state legislature, and she was very supportive. we were advocating at the time for in-state tuition for veterans. she helped push that through and

made it law. right across the street is one of the hardest institutions of higher learning, arizona state university. because of that law, one of the reasons for that law -- one of the reasons is that one of the impacts is we went from under a thousand veterans to over 10,000 veterans going to asu right now today. that's what i mean by being supportive of veterans in education and training. so we knew her from there. we worked hard for her, a lot of people worked hard for her to get through this senate race and to become victorious in it. it took three weeks to count the votes. that's how close it was and all her supporters got a call at 8:00 at night, and we all ran down, and they made the official announcement that she had won. that was then. this is now. many of us went on to that advisory council with high hopes

and high expectations. it was heartbreaking to me personally to see her drift in the direction that was absolutely contrary to everything that we had talked about. not the least of which are voting rights. you know, i've fought three wars across four tours and five countries for this idea of democracy. i turned 21 years old on the ho chi minh trail. i was ineligible to vote, and wasn't able to vote for president until three years after i got back from vietnam. more recently, i had a contract in iraq and i helped take iraqi citizens to the voting polls. >> right. >> we knew we were going to be fighting ieds and small arms. we got those people to the voting polls.

that's how important this was. >> what's your understanding of why she has changed her positions? i mean, do you consider her having changed her positions? you say she's kind of gone astray. but you know, do you, as a member of this advisory council, were you interacting with her? was she answering your questions? she's certainly not speaking to members of the media and certainly doesn't seem like she's speaking to her constituents frequently enough to answer their questions. i'm wondering if you're having any better luck than we've had. >> the answer again in a word is no. and that was one of the things -- there were several elements, but that was one of them, the non-communication that we had, and it just didn't look like some of the things that we had proposed or indicated that we would like to see didn't really come to fruition. and so now those were aggressive packages, i'll admit, but they were packages that would have a high impact on a lot of people, a lot of veterans all for the good, i think.

and so that was another element, the noncommunication with her. in fact, we hadn't talked to her directly in almost two years. >> what happens now? i mean, are you prepared to support kyrsten sinema, senator sinema going forward or has she lost your support entirely? is there a way that she can win back your support and get you back on the advisory council, or is it too little too late? >> well, as far as the advisory council, i think that's a little bit too little too late. i think, you know, that's a bridge we've crossed, and -- but we continue to encourage her to step up and get behind the president's agenda. it's a -- he's proposing a government for the 21st century, things that we need, things that working people need, things that veterans need, and at the base out of all of that is voting

rights. we ab -- you know, the idea of voter suppression and election, you know, eliminating, you know, election fairness, you know, as veterans those are values to our -- us veteran, that are near and dear to our hearts, and at the base of that and i watched your other two guests talk about the filibuster and senator king talk about the imbalance of representation. >> yeah. >> and i'm 100% behind all that. i agree 100%, and so the fill -- filibuster needs to go as a first important step. without the filibuster going we get no voter rights and without voter rights we have no democracy. those are the connecting dots that i look at and i see, and those are important obviously to me as an american, but again,

more so even maybe even as a veteran, so those are the dots. and i want to make sure that, you know, senator sinema has a path back. and so we're focused on issues. we're focused on -- >> right. >> -- this legislation. >> i couldn't agree with you more on the point that you were saying in terms of the threat to our democracy and why that is so important. david lucier, thank you so much for joining us this evening. i greatly appreciate your insights on this. coming up, former president barack obama in virginia today firing up the crowd for the state's governor's race, and why he calls the election a turning point. you're going to hear him for yourself next. plus, president biden also making another attempt at climate legislation ahead of next week's u.n. climate summit. we're going to break down his latest plan for you. that's next. when our daughter and her kids moved in with us... our bargain detergent couldn't keep up. turns out it's mostly water. so, we switched back to tide. one wash, stains are gone. [daughter] slurping

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in glasgow next weekend as nations try to accountable together plans for the future of our planet. the u.s. will be front and center at those talks, but will president joe biden actually have anything to take to the table? the white house is pushing for a vote next week on the paired down build back better bill. add that to the fact that the last time any meaningful climate change legislation tried to pass through the u.s. senate was way back in 2009 when congressional democrats failed to pass a carbon pricing system. the u.n. secretary general himself saying this week, quote, it is obvious that the u.s. negotiating position will be strengthened if congress passes the climate provisions in their reconciliation bill. and in case it wasn't already hard enough to get the support of global leaders, the gop has decided that they're going to send their own delegation to cop26 because nothing says you've got your act together like, well, sending two separate delegations from separate parties. so what power will the president

have to negotiate, and is it enough to actually save the planet? who et better to answer these questions than coral dafb port. she knows every aspect of our climate policy and has been covering this from the outset. thank you for your time this evening. i know that for us who follow what is happening in d.c., we don't even know what's in this new bill and what is reportedly being removed from it, what is being put in it. what do we know at this time about what is actually in the bill specifically for climate change? >> so there was one big climate provision that the president had really hoped to bring to this conference in glasgow, called clean electricity program. if that had been in the bill and passed into law, the program would have paid electric utilities which are the second largest source of greenhouse pollution in the u.s. it would have paid them to

quickly and rapidly shut down coal and gas fired power plants and replace them with wind, solar, nuclear clean energy, and it would have forced companies that didn't do that to pay a penalty. and multiple analysis found that had that piece been enacted into that law along with some of the other pieces that are in the build back better bill as well, it would have been by far the most powerful climate law ever enacted in the u.s. it would have given the president something extremely powerful and strong and permanent to point to when he goes to glasgow and passed a l will rapidly cut u.s. emissions and put us on track to cut u.s. emissions in half by 2030. so that piece of the legislation at this point is almost certainly out. the reason -- >> do we know why? yea sorry, go ahead, you were about to say. go ahead. >> and the reason is due to

something you've heard many times on this show before, objections from senator joe manchin of west virginia. he is from, of course, a major coal producing state. he himself has investments in coal brokerages. he profits personally from coal companies, and he has said that he will not support the overall legislation if it has that provision. so as of right now the president has basically conceded publicly -- >> unbelievable. >> -- that it's almost impossible to pass the broader, this giant bill which contains his entire domestic agenda if it doesn't have that piece. >> it's unbelievable the way that you just laid it out, that this is being blocked by senator joe manchin, and you know, i wanted to ask you specifically about something the president, what he had to say about these negotiations on thursday. take a listen. >> the clean electricity performance program, that's been dropped now from this spending bill. >> no, it hasn't. >> it has not?

senator manchin is opposed to that. >> the concession has been agreed to for senator manchin, is that true? >> nothing's been formally agreed to. >> he's there kind of hedging it a bit. we know that production of coal in this country is at a 50-year high. joe manchin is getting to call the shots. president biden set a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2030, net zero emissions by 2050. is that possible with coal production as it stands in this country? and if not, what can we do about it? could we see action from the epa, the environmental protection agency or an executive order? >> oh, absolutely. so recent analysis that have just come out in the last week have found that even without that clean electricity provision, that sort of power house central provision, it remains technically mathematically possible for the united states to reach president biden's target of cutting u.s. emissions 50% by the end of the

decade, which is a huge, very ambitious goal. it's what the science says that we need to do. how can that be done? well, there are -- there's one other provision that remains in the build back better act. so far joe manchin is okay with it. it's $300 billion in tax credits for clean energy. and for purchasers of electric vehicles, and what the analysis has found if those tax credits stay in, and it looks like it will, that can get the u.s. about a third to a half of president biden's goals. it can cut u.s. emissions a third to a half by as much as they need to be cut by the end of the decade. that's a good big bite. if the bill gets passed into law, president biden can go to the rest of the world and say, look, the u.s., we have passed a law that gets us one-third to one-half of where i've said we're going to be, but so where do you get the rest of it? and a lot of the rest comes from

what is in the works right now. they don't exist. they're not written, but president biden said i want the epa to do very, very aggressive regulations on pollution from automobiles and pollution from coal-fired power plants. major big regulations, the auto pollution regulation is designed to aggressively basically -- production of the internal combustion engine and drive us towards electric vehicles by the end of the decade. the question is can they really write a regulation that will do it, and will it stand up in court? so it's possible -- >> coral, i really appreciate -- >> regulations but they -- >> i was just going to say, i really appreciate you breaking this down for us because it's obviously when we think about talking about climate change, people always think it's something to do with the future, and we think about it in very dense terms. you really helped us wrap our

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