>> thanks for having me on, chuck.hink they are actually learning the lessons of history already. the president going to atlanta, georgia, to have the conversation about voting rights isn't just about voting rights, but it's a signal to the democratic base, to allies, to partners, to say he's not going it alone, he's heard them on that critical issue and a number of others and appreciates that he can't get to the other side of this without activists, without their voices and without their engagement. the worst thing you can do in a white house when you have any kind of a crisis is to isolate. i don't see this white house doing that at all, chuck, and that's a good sign. the other thing is they've got to double down on their actual successes. three numbers, chuck, 200 million, 6 million and 50%. 200 million shots in terms, 6 million jobs in the biden economy, 50% reduction in childhood poverty. they will have to press hard into those successes. >> you know, this is an interesting conundrum i think they have there. look,

he told me two things, chuck. first the administration wants to double down on encouraging vaccine clinics in schools. right now the rate for 5 to 11 year olds is still very low. about 20%. take a listen to what he said. >> what i would like to see, heidi, across the country is doubling down on vaccine clinics in our schools. when students are vaccinated and when our adults are vaccinated, less likelihood for quarantining and less likelihood for the need for tests. our children in school, that's where they need to be. >> chuck, he's also telling me he hopes half a billion tests being sent out this month will help with the critical shortages we're seeing and he did not give any guarantee, chuck, that we'll be able to regularly test all kids before this nation really sees the worst of omicron. the situation right now is this. the head of the national association told me yesterday that parents should expect rolling shut downs or going in and out of virtual school for at least the next few weeks. then the states with

>> first, chuck, that's simply not my assessment.or schultz just last week for an hour and listened very carefully to him. i've been on the phone and saw my own german counterpart, former minister bierbach. and i can tell you the germans very much share our concerns and are resolute in being determined to respond and respond quickly, effectively and in a united way. i have no doubts about that. >> the diplomacy -- the consistent calls for meetings right now that the russians are doing, do you think they're genuine about diplomacy, or do you think they're just essentially playing out the calendar here because he's not going to upset xi in the olympics, and essentially we're making it look more legitimate by negotiating? are you worried he's playing us a little bit? >> look, it is certainly possible that the diplomacy that russia is engaged in is simply going through the motions and it won't affect their ultimate decision about whether to invade or in some other way intervene or not in ukraine. but we have a responsibility to see the d

chuck, the two chucks know how to reach me. please be in touch. let me know how the justice department can support, if we're doing something wrong or you need something, let us know that too. but i am always grateful to be among you mayors. i know how hard your jobs are and my hope is that being at the justice department, we can really increase our partnership. these are the questions of the day and we've only scratched the surface. [applause] >> i'm going to pick up the challenge and say, let's have this conversation again real soon. if you have, like most of us, been experiencing a surge in crime over the last two years, particularly violent crime, this is the issue. there's been a lot of great things happening all over the country in american cities and we are leading on a number of different fronts. but this is the issue that defines us. and for me, it is the priority. i wake up every morning, i go to bed every night. i spend almost every hour during the day worrying about public safety and thinking about more and better and innovative ways in

welcome to tuesday, i'm chuck todd.we kick off nbc's news's coverage of the midterm election season with this special edition of "meet the press daily" that we're calling meet the midterms. these midterms are shaping up to be one of the more impactful election cycles we have had this century. the house and senate both on the line, lots of governor's races which all could play a big part in 2024 politics as well. we are living in some unusually tumultuous times in terms of the instability of the two major parties in power. it's shocking how often we change party control of the house, white house and senate in the first part of this century. only really one other time in history have we been this volatile. president biden, though, is approaching the one-year mark of his presidency, struggling to combat a covid surge, struggling to get major pieces of his agenda through democratic-controlled congress with those small majorities. the senate is right now debating the voting rights agenda on the floor. there is not enough sup

chuck d.cacy with the show "unfiltered" that aired with back in the day rachel maddow before msnbc. my special guest back on "the beat" is chuck d. thanks for being here, sir. >> thank you, ari, for taking the time. here we are, right? >> here we are. you've been walking the walk, talking the talk, making the art. i met you before you know and i grew up on your work so looking at something you're trying to do in the real world that relates to the art is interesting. tell us about the hip-hop alliance and what you're advocaing for. >> great power comes responsibility. that is an industry everyone seems to think and speak act is being all over the world and probably the most infectious, you know, genre that's out there right now for the last couple of last three or four generations. there is a show and business and industry looking forward to 2022. you know, engaging the hip-hop and r and b community to organize and promote fair royalties and strong health and retirement benefit for artists, i'm

>> chuck, it's good to be with you.s is a moment of truth for protecting the future of our democracy, as you say, we're coming up on the anniversary of the notorious attacks on our democracy of january 6th and since that failed to overturn the presidential election you have seen these republican-controlled state legislatures putting up barriers to voting and in some cases putting in place provisions that would allow partisan elected officials to overturn the count. so we've got to do that, this is a now or never moment. senator schumer said we're going to take this up and vote on it before january 17th and we're going to push forward to have that vote. >> what are you pushing for here, though? a piece of legislation that will meet the moment or changing the rules of the senate to do it with 50 senators or is this one and the same conversation? >> well, we already have all 50 democratic senators on the freedom to vote act, which is already a somewhat narrowed version of the bill that came over from the house, the for the

here's why, chuck.i'm using a federal grand jury to collect information through subpoena from companies around the country, i'm boundly grand jury secrecy rules, i can't share it without an order from the judge. >> makes perfect sense. it feels like we have two simultaneous investigations that might be combing through very similar information. chuck rosenberg, always good to get your expertise and experience to explain this, you this, sir. >>> i want to take a moment to congratulate our friends and colleagues over at nbc's "today" show for marking its 70th anniversary today. the iconic morning show reshaped television, not just morning television, after its launch in 1952 when only a third of american households even had a television. that risk surely paid off. so a big happy birthday to my younger brothers over there at the "today" show. we're the older sibling here at "meet the press." "meet the press" turns 75 later this year, our diamond anniversary. that does it for us this hour. we'll be back mond

chuck, i want you to take care of something important, he said.ore pulling out a wad of cash out of his wallet and peeling off four $100 bills. you know, he said, you've been working hard and doing a lot of the right things to be democratic leader, but you need to dress better. please buy some better shoes. now, at first, i thought halfry pulled me into this little bathroom because he didn't want landra to see him wasting $400 on the senate's worst dressed member. but when i asked harry about it later, he said to me he didn't want to embarrass me in front of landra. that was harry to a tee. it was no secret that harry didn't care for the decorum of public office, but he did know how to dress his part. he cut his hair regularly, he shined his shoes, he wore nice suits from clothiers like kicky freedman that i couldn't afford but a few years later i got the better of harry when i showed up to the senate wearing a freeman suit of my own. harry was surprised. he said, chuck, i thought you said you should never afford a freeman suit. i told him, i can'

chuck, with african-americans you had 94% approval.n is now -- biden has dipped significantly below that with african-americans as well as young people is the drag on his job approval. his job approval i think at nbc polling was 43%, 44%. if his approval is in the eights among young voters and eights among african american voters he's causal flee close to a r50% approval mark. when you look at young voters and african american voters, you know, front and center is voting rights act and no more is that more front and senter than in the state you are in. >> symone, i talked to one frustrated activist on voting rights issues and she said to me, look, there's no way i can ever support the other party. i think the other party doesn't want me to be a member of their party she goes but i didn't agree with what that other guy did but he always seemed to be doing something. what she was saying was it feels like this president is not able to each get a small thing done. now, i know that's not true, there's a lot of small things, but she's not he

but this does bring it, as chuck suggested, potentially a step closer. and they've got a lot more power in doj than they have on that congressional committee. >> and how quickly do you expect or can we expect to see them react to this or move with these with any more indictments, any more movement that we might see out of this investigation, andrea? >> i think that's very difficult to predict. as pete williams would be the first to tell you, they are very, very careful about not prejudging anything and not speaking about an indictment before it happens. so for instance, all the criticism that merrick garland has been enduring from a lot of people, including his former professor larry tribe, a lot of people going on television and complaining that there's been no action yet on mark meadows, on that criminal referral, for instance, and no evidence that doj is really looking into all of this. well, this is what happens, when they have a grand jury, and they are getting indictments, they take it step by step. you've seen the same kind of criticism of how slo

>> yes, basically that's right, chuck.to response force, that is a nato response force so it would have to be an alliance decision to activate it and there are multiple countries that form all the allies actually contribute to that nato response force. we have a piece of it so what we're doing is just getting our piece of it more ready. it hasn't been activated. there's been no deployment orders but the other thing, chuck, and you kind of touched on this is we're having bilateral discussions with our nato allies even as we speak. the secretary talked to his polish counterpart this morning. so we're talking bilaterally with allies and seeing if there's anything else they might need that the united states could provide on their soil in allied territory. again no decisions made. nothing's been sent, but we are having those active discussions with our allies right now. >> what about with ukraine's military. how much military to military contact is there between the pentagon and ukrainian military officials? >> quite frankly, c

i want to just say one thing to chuck. not only thank you for this entire effort, but chuck in listening to colleagues not just democratic colleagues, but republican colleagues, too, decided that the rule reform proposal that we'll grapple with tomorrow is not an abolition of the filibuster or reduction of the filibuster, it's instead switching a secret filibuster into a public and transparent filibuster so everyone on this floor can be held accountable for their actions and that's as it should be. thank you. >> well said. coming up, what just to add what tim said d sorry, just summing up what tim just said, on an important issue like this, to vote and we believe that this vote will actually help propel us forward and it's one of the reasons we're doing this and one of the things you've heard from the great speakers here and from cory and debby and alex in the caucus, i've never seen more passion in our caucus on this issue, this is just passionate with our members for the reasons you heard. we'll take a few questions, yes

what is chuck schumer's end game here? >> i wish i could tell you, chuck.his is the challenge of reporting this out all week. schumer laid out a couple steps of a plan, but not all of it. they will vote on the voting rights bills on or by monday, martin luther king day. and then vote on rules change. he hasn't specified what those rule changes even would be and i don't know a democratic senator who thinks that that vote will be successful. look, i think it's entirely possible that schumer is bluffing here and this is a strategy to exert maximum pressure on sinema and manchin without forcing them to vote because we saw what happened the last time too much pressure arguably was used on joe manchin and that was in the form of a statement from the white house that mentioned his name. it was apparently the straw that broke the camel's back on the build back better negotiations. i have a hard time seeing how more pressure on manchin including going on the floor and line-up as the president said with the george wallaces of the world will be conducive to getting hi

>> and that will be -- and, chuck, that will be part of the process.he's elected he's going to have to go through the primary process and the republican party will put its standard bearer on to the line. i believe at the end of the day we're going to have enough voices in that conversation that that type of rhetoric will be held to account and i think that will discount the ability for an individual to be the standard bearer for the republican party. >> you know, this sounds like a lot of elected republicans i talk to who are afraid of telling their supporters what they don't want to hear which is that donald trump is lying to them. have you told your supporters that donald trump is lying to them about the 2020 election? >> i will be very clear with you, chuck, i believe the election in 2020 was a duly held election, the results were duly certified and the challenges of fraud were given an opportunity to be vetted and i will tell you that this big lie type of representation i disagree with and i'm saying that right now, but that doesn't mean you go for

per joe biden chuck schumer and many that signed the letter. the democrats response as we know is something along the argument of this. the little slate of filibuster must be nuked even though they made statements otherwise because american democracy must be saved before republican, state legislatures and republican members of congress and of the so-called jim crow 2.0. that's the heart of the argument. on the voting rights laws the states are doing good and republican states are doing bad. so is that true? this is an important question. i don't assume to know other states. most of my colleagues don't know other states in terms of their law but i do know mine, the great state of alaska and here are the facts about my state, the republican state in three critical areas of voting rights. automatic voting registration. alaska voting laws are significantly more expensive than voting laws in new york. a democrat, connecticut, new hampshire, massachusetts just to name a few. those are the facts. are those states jim crow 2.0. here's an important issu

and so there are things that chuck schumer has done to help build biden's legacy.ave changed so much from then in 2010 where you have so much more incoming on presidents, and so i think you may not ever see a senate majority leader or house speaker be able to prop up their president as much as harry reid was able to, because of how much is going on and how many different factors and success happened in washington, d.c., now, right? there are so many different things, especially when you look at joe biden, there are all these other circumstances, his age, the fact that he has said himself that he sees himself as a bridge candidate when he was running, though he contends publicly and privately that he is going to run again. that -- some of that is out of chuck schumer's hands, and so i don't think that we're going to see that same relationship that they had, but i wanted to read one statement that came out when mitch mcconnell -- when harry reid passed away. you could hardly invent a more quintessentially american story, and it took harry's legendary bluntness, tough

>> chuck, good to be with you.just say up front tony fauci has been iindispensable, invaluable, i don't know where we would be without him in new jersey, if that's not enough he's married to a jersey gal. he has been a hero to us. we're working with our legislative leadership literally as we speak. i don't have any news to break for you, but we're having very constructive deliberations with them and my hope is that we will have something to say about this sometime even later today, but it's pretty clear all of us think this is not the time to lay down our weapons. this thing is raging, we have now over 6,000 folks in our hospitals, which is not a peak, but it's getting in that neighborhood for us, as you rightfully point out, staff shortages across all of society, but certainly in our health care system are a reality. so i don't have any news to break for you, but i'm highly confident we will have the things in place that we're going to need to have in place to continue to fight this thing. >> all right. but if you

(chuck de cesari) it does. i think one of the additional things that drive me to want to fit in and be part of it, is to not make them uncomfortable. when their parents don't hear how bad the american was, or how bad the foreigner was, the kids in school don't tend to have that. i think my daughter actually feels special about it. her hair is a little bit lighter than most of the kids in the school. when she was younger, the little kids would ask me that if they spoke enough english to me, would their hair turn the same color as yuzuki's hair. (sophie fouron) apparently, there's the highest quantity of people over 100 years old here. - yeah, percentage wise. actually, there's a man who lives across the street from me, he's 100 years old and rides a motorcycle. - no way! - i think people here don't decide that they're old. you know? i mean like they say, "the attitude". and it's true. this is my mother-in-law. her name is kikue. she's 84 right now. she will be 85 next month. it's not what a typical 85-year-old i

>> chuck, this is a great question. i think all of us could have done a much better job from the beginning of saying, look, the one and only thing you can count on is that the recommendations and guidelines are going to change over time. that is the one thing you can count on. but let's take this example of isolation policy. yes, the cdc came out with rather confusing -- in a sense overly tailored advice, trying to fit its advice for every single possible setting, health care, schools, travel, the general public health. yes, the cdc could have done a better job, but there are many other parties that contributed to this issue. you have the fda under both trump and the biden administrations that has dragged their feet of authorizing this rapid antigen tests for the purpose of assessing are people contagious or not. many of us have been advocating for that. they have yet to do that. we have real world evidence that they're a method of containing contagiousness. the fda has to authorize, then the cdc makes recommendations a

and i walked up and just kind of said, hey, look, chuck, chuck wants to talk to you right now.cared him a little bit originally. but chuck, the nicest guy in the entire world and we have kept contact with him. >> ashley: and when you saw casey was walking up to your truck, i assume you knew chuck called you to let you know what was going on? >> yes, she said that chuck was talking to a truck on the phone. and i knew to coat chucks at the bakery. so she gave me the phone number. i called and he said, "hang out as much as you can but be careful so you're not overwhelmed." >> ashley: where you overwhelmed with that because i can imagine people looking at to you like a god write them because nobody had had anything to eat? how did you feel about that? were you concerned about your safety? >> i was not concerned for my safety. my army training set in. and just keep your vehicle running, keep it running. and just crack a window so there is no carbon monoxide. but i wasn't concern about my safety. i was glad i was in the right place at the right time. >> ashley: john and casey, what w

i think i got this quote from your speech, chuck. he said to vote without debating is powerless, but to debate and never vote is imbecile. that is what they are asking us to do right now. go on and never get to a vote. history is our god -- guide by the changes that have been made, and history is our guide and that we stand up for people and we never give up. a great man once said that disappointment is finite, but hope is infinite. we will not give up. >> thank you senator klobuchar. now our historian and expert on delving into these rules, and very effectively, jeff merkley. sen. merkley: thank you to my colleagues standing here, saying our o through the constitution really means something. that is founded on the foundation of every person's right to vote. in each generation, we have to nurture, restore that foundation, and that is what our task is now. my colleague who has led the rules committee quoted henry cabot lodge. he was in the house, from massachusetts, a republican. he proceeded to say what we are seeing happen after the

appreciate it. >> thank you very much, chuck. thank you for having me. >> you got it. >>> that does it for us this hour. we're just moments away from president biden's live remarks, and you will see him here, he just visited the site where the bridge in pittsburgh collapsed this morning, and that bridge accident, ten people were injured in that collapse, which is obviously a terrifying reminder of the consequences of the neglected infrastructure, and this bridge had a lot of failures previously recorded. katy tur will have much more on that in just a moment. we will be back monday with "meet the press daily," and on sunday, it's "meet the press." >>> good to be with you. i am katy tur. there's a lot happening right now as chuck just mentioned, president biden is in pittsburgh where he was scheduled to speak about infrastructure which turned unintentionally timely today after a bridge within that city collapsed this morning. the president just toured the damage. more on that and the president's remarks in just a few minutes. we'll

host: that was senate majority leader chuck schumer yesterday afternoon. the vote is expected to take place today sometime in the 6 p.m. hour. for more on that action we bring in stephen dennis, friend of this program. i have heard you say over the years that the number one rule in politics is that when you have the votes, you vote. so as chuck schumer goes into the showdown over voting rights and the filibuster, does he have the votes? guest: he definitely does not and isn't likely to get them in the next few hours. you know, for more than a year joe manchin and chris -- kyrsten sinema have been crystal clear that they would not unilaterally as a democratic party support changing the 60 vote threshold to allow passage of a whole host of democratic priorities. not just voting rights. so, they have both reiterated their opposition to changing that threshold and it looks like we are going to get a lot of political theater today culminating with maybe some kind of prime time debate and vote that looks like it will be 52-48, maybe one or two more democrats mig

chuck, we talked about it on this show. it started even before the results of the election were announced. just after election night, right, when president biden, then, of course, president-elect biden was called as winner in georgia, and you then had former president trump demanding a recount, a hand recount, confirm that joe biden won. the attorney general in december came out and said there was no widespread voter fraud. january 2nd was the phone call that we've been talking about, the insurrection, of course, here in washington at the capitol, on the 6th. then on the 7th, of course, the certification and the 20th, a year ago today, president biden was sworn into office. greg, can you talk a little about what you understand to be the -- the scope of this d.a. investigation sneer. >> -- here? >> yeah, as mentioned, the prosecutor issued the scope much beyond the -- the famous january 2nd phone call with brad raffensperger. they've looking at legislative special hearings that were held in december, 2020, that rudy giuliani

i'm chuck todd. moments ago president biden and stephen breyer spoke at the white house officially announcing his retirement once his successor named an confirmed. president biden said he'll select a nominee worthy of breyer's legacy and aims to do it before the end of next month. >> i will select a nominee worthy of justice breyer's legacy of excellence and decency. while i've been studying candidates' backgrounds and writings, i've made no decision except one -- the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity, and that will be if first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. it's long overdue in my view. i made that commitment during the campaign for president, and i will keep that commitment. i will fully do what i said i'd do. >> as we mentioned yesterday when the news was first breaking, breyer's retirement is supremely good timing for the president and his party, a chance for democrats to refocus their mid

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>> it would be devastating, chuck. of course when donald trump backed candidates have actually lost one thing donald trump has done is pretended the loss never existed just like he ended up doing in his presidential loss in 2020. what is true trump definitely wanted to leave his imprint on these races for governor and senate in 2022. and we end up seeing glen youngkin and republicans doing well by keeping trump at a distance. and donald trump is going to make that all but impossible in 2022 whether it is him trying to defeat brian kemp in the gubernatorial race or having hand picked herschel worker as the senate front runner in the driver's seat. so there's going to be no avoiding donald trump to maybe keep him at arms length. >> it is amazing. you see the popularity of a charlie baker or larry hogan, the successor of glen youngkin and all these people thinking i've got to run towards trump, not away from him, but we'll see. so up next we're going to get the latest from capitol hill as the senate is set to vote tonight

>> reporter: i don't think so, chuck.t spoken publicly on this at all since the press conference in late december. he's just sent his messengers out. one of those, the kremlin spokesman, we heard from him at the daily press briefing saying none of this has any impact on the negotiations. from russia's perspective, those negotiations, the very first phase, is already completed. what they're waiting for now is a formal written response from the united states to that very heavy list of demands that they put forward. the demands mounting to the demobilization of nato in eastern europe. so they're sitting there waiting for it and they're giving the impression that they won't make their move until they see it. i'm not sure what they're expecting. the united states is clearly telegraphing, they're not getting what they're asking for, quite the opposite, if russia came in thinking they could push nato out of europe. more nato forces are moving into eastern europe. we're waiting and not clear what they'll do when they get that let

>> yeah, and chuck, i already am. of about 12 senators, republicans and democrats that are working on the electoral count act, will continue to work together. sadly, this election reform bill that the president has been pushing, i never got a call on that from the white house. there was no negotiation, bringing the republicans and democrats together to try to come up with something that would meet bipartisan interests. sure, we can work together on almost every issue where there's common ground. i would note on this, on the bill they put together, they want a real dramatic change, which is they feel that instead of elections being run at the state level, they should really be managed and run at the federal level. recognize the founders didn't have that vision in mind. they didn't want an autocrat to be able to pull a lever in one place and change all the election laws. instead, they spread that out over 50 states. i think in part to keep autocracy from finding its root here in this country. we can work together. i thi

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one thanks to chuck. only thank you for this effort but chuck listening to colleagues, not just democratic republic, democrat call accessible, the proposal that will be grappled with tomorrow, not an abolition of the filibuster or reduction of the filibuster, it instead switching secret filibuster into a public and transparent filibuster so everyone can be held accountable for their action. >> just to add what tim said -- sorry. summing up what tim said, a senator's job is to vote in on an important issue like this devote and we believe this boat will help propel us forward and one of the reasons we are doing it. one thing you heard from great speakers here and corey and debbie and alex in the caucus, i've never seen a more passionate caucus on this issue. passionate for the reasons you'vefo heard. [inaudible question] >> i'm not getting into the politics. the vast majority of our caucus strongly disagrees disagrees with manchin and sinema on will changes. overwhelming majority of our caucus knows if you

chuck, thank you so much. this will be a big topic on "meet the press". chuck also will discuss the cdc under fire with a former member of president biden's covid-19 advisory board. >>> as the investigation continues into alec baldwin's deadly shooting of a cinematographer on "rust", baldwin is addressing reporting that he is not cooperating with authorities. >> the best way to honor the death of ha lena hutchins is to find out the truth, and any suggestion that we're not complying, myself and any lawyers i'm working with or what have you is a lie. is a lie. >> the woman was killed last year when baldwin shot her accidentally during a rehearsal for that movie. authorities in new mexico have issued a search warrant for baldwin's phone, but since he's in new york, he says the warrant must also go through local authorities there. >>> today is the final sunday of the newly expanded nfl season with teams jockeying to get into the playoffs or to improve their standing. last night dallas cowboys quarterback threw a career-high five touchdown passes to lead the c

chuck, they see this as a moment to reset.you think about the timing of it, it comes a week after the divisions over the voting rights legislation. so when you talk to white house officials, they cast this as an opportunity toa the party to kind of take a breath, remind everybody what their goals are and to come together and be unified, and they see two moments where this could be particularly energizing. obviously right now, when they have this opportunity, the president is going to have the moment when they have a name and something the party can really rally around. in terms of politically going forward, they don't see this as something that will define the midterms, it will be a line or two in a speech, but for now it allows them to take breath, talk quietly about how they figure out a path forward on some of the president's legislative agenda and move forward with some names. >> i want to talk about why people believe it's time for an african-american on the high court. there are 1400 judges, just 51 of them right now are

mike -- chuck: no, that would not work., there is a constitutional amendment called the second amendment that protects the right of the citizen to own firearms. second, i agree with the holistic approach. things that make the penalties more difficult, that would cut down a lot on the misuse. for example, if you illegally used a firearm, mandatory sentencing says automatic 20 years. i think that is something the gun lobby would support and also something that would cut down on the illegal use of guns because the bad guys would say the cost is too high. peter: pastor mike in oakland, is it significant that johns hopkins is saying 60% on its website today -- 60% of first-time gun buyers would buy smart technology over ordinary technology if it was readily available, or is it just that they do not know what they are buying so they just want to go for the latest, glitzy estate -- glitziest top-of-the-line handgun available? mike: i think it is significant because we have begun to win the argument over and against the gun lobby a

chuck schumer is now going old school. he is going to the senate floor knowing that he has now only 48 of the 50 votes that he needs and he and joe biden are hoping that the pressure, the public pressure on raising your hand to say yay or nay on the senate floor might just might be the only way to, in the end, get those two votes for voting rights. i have seen this play work in the senate and i have seen this play not work. but what the vote will do is clearly identify the problem. if the bill doesn't pass, you will know exactly who blocked voting rights legislation. we already know that all 50 republicans will block it, and now joe biden and chuck schumer plan to give the united states senators nowhere to hide on voting rights. >> every senator, democratic, republican, and independent will have to declare where they stand, not just for the moment, but for the ages. will you stand against voter suppression? yes or no? that's the question it will answer. will you stand against election subversion? yes or no? will you stand

that is from chuck schumer just a few years ago. this letter, to which the leader referred, was signed by a majority of the current sitting democrat senators, basically saying that getting rid of the filibuster would be terrible for the country. they came out in hard opposition back in 2017. at the time, republicans were under pressure from our former president to get rid of the flood filibuster. we withstood that pressure because we believe the legislative filibuster is essential not only to the functioning of the senate, but the country. it does provide the cooling saucer where legislation and things can be cooled down and it gets away from the passions of the moment, create stability, predict ability, moderation and opportunity for compromise where solutions can be found. we actually have to get republicans and democrats working together. it protects minority rights. it is the institution in our democracy that protects minority rights. what they are talking about doing would create a nuclear fallout unlike anything we have seen.

that's what these -- democrats whine too much, chuck.ht and tell people what you did. >> enough with the whiney party. is he talking about the democrats or is he just talking about all of us as we've gone through year three of omicron? because there's been some whining. carville is making a serious point, though, that there has been within the democratic party and thus within its activist community and then the wider community of people who care about politics, an obsession with roadblocks like senators manchin and sinema instead of some of the wins, as he puts it, from year one. that includes the job growth numbers, which are undeniable, which relates to a better economy, unemployment down to pre-pandemic levels. have you heard about that? we turn now to someone who is about as white house credentialed as james carville but with less of an accent. a senior adviser to president obama who many democrats have called on for advice, david plouffe. no offense, you just don't have his memorable accent. >> no one does. he's one of a kind, in ma