adam jentleson, if you could end by talking about what this means for the covid relief bill. elp and who doesn't? adam: what sanders has done is identified budget reconciliation which is an end around the filibuster. that goes from the jim crow era being applied to only civil rights bills to today, being used for every bill. senators can use reconciliation to go around it. he can use it for the covid relief bill. it will enable us to pass covid relief over the objections of republicans and not have to clear a 60 vote threshold. long-term, the filibuster will rear its head because any types of reforms cannot go to reconciliation. reconciliation is a restrictive process that has tight rules. it has to have budgeitems. ultimately we will have to face this question of the filibuster if we want to do things like d.c. statehood or puerto rico statehood. all of that stuff cannot go through reconciliation. if we don't reform the filibuster, it will die by the filibuster. amy: adam jentleson, i want to thank you for being with us. the public affairs director at democracy forward. forme

affairs director at democracy forward and former deputy chief of staff to senator harry reid, adam jentleson modern senate and the crippling of american democracy." adam, good morning! it's great to see you. it's been a while since we used to chat in the hallways when you worked for harry reid and i was covering the senate. so thank you for getting up early to talk to everyone. and i just want to help people understand a little bit big picture, because you know, we heard from durbin and schumer, and it's a lot of talk about these legislative questions down in the weeds. but the reality is, and you write about this in your book, the filibuster, which used to be a thing people thought of as, you know, what jimmy stewart did in the movies, going down to the senate floor and talking and talking and talking because he wanted to take a chance to object to something for the good of the country, has changed into something else entirely in the intervening decades, to the point that we've gotten -- it is so incredibly hard to get anything done. and that really is the question -- how should the senate