democrats woo and boo joe manchin, dubbed the new mcconnell for blocking the democratic agenda. mitch mcconnell was on the senate floor to note the discord on the democratic agenda. this was mitch mcconnell from yesterday. >> after a spring in which the senate has repeatedly passed mainstream legislation by wide margins, democrats have decided that now is the time to argue the legislative process is somehow broken. let's not forget the democrats poster child to allow the senate to change its rule is a bill that would change the rules for elections in every state in america. let me say that again. the democrats poster child to allow the senate to change its rule is a bill that would forcibly change the rules for elections in every state in america. the question is not whether it could earn bipartisan support, the question is how wide the bipartisan opposition will be. this is the bill the democratic leader has placed at the vanguard of this campaign to destroy the filibuster, even though multiple members of his own majority are now on the record objecting to it. make no mistake,

democrats getting all of this information, it is pure democrat propaganda.uld president biden meet with vladimir putin? caller: yes and putin should tell of thank you for all of the horrible policies. the democrat followers, look it up. look up the policies, not the propaganda. host: are you finished? caller: no, why are you a democrat biased person? host: i don't want to cut you off and we have a couple minutes. robert in rally, north carolina. caller: hello, sir, i used to like watching c-span, it is becoming a show where a lot of people call in the don't seem to have much research on what they are saying. u.s. the host. i feel like you might be a strong trump supporter. whenever people say bad things about joe biden you have this silly little smirk on your face. i'm sorry if i misjudged you. i think it is horrible and you should resign from being the host on the show. host: glass too calls got -- two calls -- last two calls got criticism for being a democrat and being a trump supporter. we are trying to create a forum where you could call in and do this e

the democrats -- joe biden actually was a pro-life democrat. later, he was pro-choice. he opposed using tax funding. he has reversed his position on that. even if you hate a lot of things that donald trump and the party has done, it has a vastly different worldview. host: let's go to henry in michigan. go ahead. caller: good morning. here is the way that i see things. joe biden and the democrats have a very unique problem. that is that about 70% of the republican party is fascist. they have authoritarian leanings because of their devotion to donald trump. joe biden is a seasoned politician. messaging is the number one key. they have legislation that they are trying to pass. they have a way to message, to get the message across to people that it is the republicans that are obstructing this progressive improvement that joe biden wants bang to build america back better. joe manchin has to do the bipartisanship route. he has to play the theater route. we have to show the american people who it is. in our social infrastructure, in our police reform, we have been retarded as

democrats 202-7488000. mr. bradley, as folks are calling in, remind viewers who the chamber represents, how many folks you represent and how you do that here in washington. >> so the chambers over 100-year-old institution. it was formed when local business leaders and chambers of kmerz from across the united states came together and said we want to have a voice in washington. and we want it to do two things. so represent the interest of the business community and the free enterprise system and to help the government. that's what we have been doing for coming up on 110 years now. our members are all sizes from one and two-person shop on main street to the nation's largest employers. we're one of the only associations that represent business irrespective of industry. so everything from agriculture to zoological sciences is within our membership. and they are from all over the united states. so we work with them every day to make sure that their voice is heard in washington. >> tim is up first on the phone lines o

go ahead. >> and there are 50 democrats, 50 in the democratic caucus in the senate. it will take 60 votes to advance that legislation which they're not likely to get. one of those key democrats is kyrsten sinema from arizona who has been an opinion piece which is we have more to lose or gain by ending the filibuster. she said my support for retaining the 60 vote threshold is not based on the importance of any particular policy, it's based on what is best for our democracy. the filibuster compels moderation and protects the country from wild swings between opposing policy polls. in her article, in her op-ed she points out some of those. she says that to those who want to eliminate the legislative filibuster to pass the for the people act i support and would co-sponsor i would ask would it be good for our country if we did only to see that legislation rescinded a few years from now and replaced by nationwide voter id law or restrictions on voting by mail in federal elections over the objections of the minority. to those who want to eliminate the legislative filibuster

democrats, (202)-748-8000. all others, (202)-748-8002. we go to the independent line and hear from joe in summit, new jersey, good morning. caller: all i have got to say is that all the democrats are trying to buy votes. that is all they do, try to buy votes. they are a bunch of crooks. i am on a whim that the democrat people are going to get smart and vote them the heck out because they don't know what they are doing and have no common sense. and they talked about guns, heck, the guns don't kill people, people kill people. do not talk about guns. you have to get rid of crime, and you have to put some of them in jail and don't let them out, like all these democrats are doing. host: mariana in conroe, texas, hello. caller: hi. i am very much in love with our president biden. he is a wonderful man, he always has been. he has integrity and principal. not just a person who pretends to be religious. we have had enough of that through the christian organization. i have been a christian all my life. i had no idea that they hated other people and

i applaud the democrats for standing up, removing democrat statues from democrat-controlled majorities sent to a democrat majority house who accepted them. it is about time. but madam speaker, to continue along in a critical race theory where you would teach an individual that they're right or wrong based on the color of their skin goes against everything we're voting on today. madam speaker, you know my heart. and i know yours. at times we might disagrea on philosophy. or how best to run a government. but we never disagreed about judging somebody by the color of their skin. and i hope we take this moment and this opportunity as we promised before to strive to be a more perfect union. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia reserves. the gentlelady from california. ms. lofgren: madam speaker, we are so lucky to have as our whip someone who started his public service as a fighter for civil rights. like our colleague, the late john lewis, our whip put his life on the line for civil rights and for voting rights and i yield to him five minutes. the spea

democratic city. polls closed a few hours ago. we've got steve kornacki standing by the big board to explain why there could be a delay in announcing a winner which is not helping the suspense in new york and already tonight, one big name has conceded. then there's a matter of one former new york city president in other new york news with national implications. there is this. and d.c. news confirming the manhattan da is indeed investigating trump's former bodyguard matthew calamari, who is now an executive at the trump organization. nbc news confirming calamari and his son have indeed hired outside counsel to represent them. with that, let's bring in our lead off kissed on this tuesday night jonathan lynn your white house reporter for the associated press. since the ox nate, former federal prosecutor in the civil rights division of the justice department and sam stein, a veteran journalist who is now white house editor over at politico. sam, indeed i'd like to begin with you. and i would like to play

mounted by senate democrats. the corrupt politicians act would repeal the vast majority of these voter i.d. laws. likewise, 31 states prohibit ballot harvesting, the corrupt practice of paying political operatives to collect other people's ballots. so what would the corrupt politicians act do? it would strike down all of those laws in 31 states and would mandate ballot harvesting nationwide. it would mean that paid political operatives from the democratic national committee could go to nursing homes and collect a vote. some of those votes no doubt from individuals who may be no longer competent to make a decision. and the reason 31 states have acted the ban -- to ban ballot harvesting is because it inviting voter fraud. an exclusive operative can fill out the ballot for a senior citizen who no longer has the capacity for make a decision, and if that citizen has the temerity to vote in the way the operative doesn't like, there's nothing to prevent the operative from throwing that ballot in the mail and simply not

democrats would need all the support of the democratic caucus to eliminate the filibuster and you are seeing people more than just manchin and cinema -- trying to dispel how the super majority is not integral. >> it is extremely frustrating. the dynamics here are very difficult. politicians, those of us who were journalists who cover them as we all do. we have short terms self-interests. these are democrats we are worried about getting reelected and about what will happen to them and what the republicans will do to them if they destroy the filibuster. the reality is not just for the democratic party but more for the survival of the country and the filibuster needs to go. there will be some sacrifices need to be done here by democrats. i think a public campaign that democrats need to get the american people, they need to go directly to them i believe and explain why the filibuster is not something the founders of the country envisioned as integral of the united states and government, it is something that started in the 1840s informally with senator calhoun who used to protect slavery.

because he's a democrat, a liberal democrat? today i penned another op-ed to the new york times our friends ben smith maggie has beener man need to give back the pulitzer, other journals at the new york times are not journalists they are radical green deal socialists. they've never covered biden's racist past. the times concerned with biden's prior work in the senate with segregationists? he wanted to stop the integration of school and stop school buses. does the new york times approve of biden's eulogy of the former klansman roberts bird where he praised robert byrd and his incredible 'em steam? does the new york times think it's appropriate that biden openly worried that a senator if we had integration of schools in america, that our children would be going to schools that are racial jungles? his words. is the times aware that joe biden coauthored the 94 crime bill after referring to inner city residents as predators on our streets? do they care about any of the racist rhetoric from biden that we just played? do they care that

if they are going to tax electric vehicles, it ain't going to happen for democrats and if the democrats also don't want to index the gasoline tax because they worried about that being an aggressive tax, if they're far apart on that, is there a path here? >> there is a path. it depends on whether there is a will to take the path. look, we've always known its would going to be extremely difficult to get a bipartisan compromise on anything important that joe biden wants and even on infrastructure as popular as that is. but we're about to find out whether it is impossible. they ran out the string with a group of republicans that shelley moore capito was representing a couple of days ago and now you have this group of ten close and larger group of 20, ten on each side, republican and democrat, trying to come up with a package. the amount of new spending that their proposing for infrastructure is something the white house could accept. it is much larger than capito was talking about. but as you indicated on the lead w why, the question of how to pay for it is difficult. republicans say it wou

happen for democrats. the question now is can they use this as a rallying cry to get their base motivated and galvanized in a way they haven't in past midterms at least in the obama era. >> what tactics will they press the leaders to use? do we also take multiple votes on the bills even if they fail and fail again? so does a lot of sources are telling me they think there's a possibility that speaker pelosi would bring up a manchin compromise bill to the house floor, pass it through the house, make it go to the senate, and then another failed vote. but with manchin supporting it. all of democratic support across the two chambers. and that gives them as jonathan mentioned, this argument heading into the midterms that time and time again, it's republicans that are blockading them. >> does that happen again on a january 6th commission? does it happen -- do you want to do a separate climate bill or immigration bill and force the votes? a lot of people say if we can't pass these things, get the voters on the tab

the democrats calling in know how many times the democrats used the filibuster last year? didn't they use it 277 times last year for donald trump? i'm pretty sure that's how many times the democrats used the filibuster. >> you know, dan, you're the second one. somebody said 300 times, you said 277, you mean during the previous congress, during the 116th congress or during donald trump's four years? >> caller: i believe it was the last year. i could be wrong. >> we're going to try to track down that number. i know by saying it we'll find out. >> caller: one thing is for sure, they used the filibuster last year. that's for sure. as far as steve skully leaving and you saying him going to some partisan thing, that's the equivalent of saying louis farrakhan is partisan. steve skully is not a partisan person. he's a hack. you had to suspend him for what he did. >> i said steve skully is going to the bipartisan policy center in washington, a bipartisan think tank. to gladys in san antonio, texas. welcome. make sure you mute your volume and go ahead with your comment. >> let me mu

shifted from three republicans and three democrats to three democrats and two republicans. that turns into an arm of the democratic senate committee. nothing in the bill is as cynical as that provision we have close elections in this race with a 50/50 senate as a sophisticated political player asking a close election, in the weeks before the election of the senate majority leader has the ability to launch investigation fromal the fec to bring prosecution from the federal elections commission to sue the political opponent of the majority, how much would that invite abuse? i understand right now democrats are in power in the house and in congress and the white house. i do want to point out it wasn't that long ago mr. president you and i were both in this body four years ago and there was a republican president and a republican house and republican senate. you didn't see the republican majority try anything as brazen as the corrupt politicians act. republican majority try to rigged the game and change the rules so republicans could never be defeated in the next election. you d

the democrats have that. it means in theory that democrats can get stuff done. the majority in both houses of congress and the white house. if they can coordinate with what pelosi is able to move in the house and schumer is able to move in the senate, the democrats should be able to get stuff done. if there aren't party defections. some democrat becoming a republican or unexpected retirements or god forbid deaths or debilitating illnesses within the democrats' slim majority, then they have this precious thing for two years. two years until the next election where they very well may lose their majority. right? they have two years, 24 months to get stuff done with this precious control of both houses of congress and the white house. it's, of course, democrats' goal to use that precious 24 months efficiently, to get as much done as possible. on the republican side, if we are honest, it's their goal to waste as much of that time as possible so democrats and president biden can't use the time. they can't get stuff done in this precious 24 months that they've got. tha

democratic city. polls closed a few hours ago. we got steve kornacki standing by at the big board to explain why there could be a delay in announcing a winner, which is not helping the suspense in new york. then there's the matter of one former new york city resident in other new york news with national implications. there's this. nbc news confirming the manhattan d.a. is investigating trump's former body guard, now an executive at the trump organization. nbc news confirming matt calamari is and his son hired outside counsel to represent them. with that, let's bring in jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press, st. oxney, former federal prosecutor in the civil rights division of the justice department, and sam stein, a veteran journalist who's now white house editor over at politico. sam, indeed, i'd like to begin with you. i'd like to play this for you and our audience. we'll discuss on the other side. this is republican senator mike lee of utah tonight. >> this bill was written

the feeling is among progressive democrats that democrats need to do more, when you look at january 6th, and the way republicans have bend the rules in their favor, they think. this is really reaching a fever pitch where progressive democrats are saying, are we going to go with a procedural rule or democracy itself? >> michael steele, it's not just progressive democrats. and i think that's the -- the dynamic feels backward to me. the progressive democrats would be fine, probably, even if 48 voter suppression and voter nullification laws were to tragically pass. it's the red state democrats who should be really, really, really worried. here's one of them. here's senator tester. >> i think the filibuster is important, but i think this is pretty fundamental to our country and who we are. and so i would take another look at the filibuster, if that's what we need to do to move forward on this. but i will say the filibuster does put legislation out that stands the test of time. no doubt about that. on the other side, i didn't come here to do nothing, and i think this is pretty fundamental to

democrats have that. and it means in theory democrats can get stuff done. you've got the majority in both houses of congress and the white house. if they can agree among themselves as to what must be done, if they can coordinate the presidents agenda with pelosi said, with what schumer can move in the senate, democrats should theoretically be able to get stuff done. if there aren't party defections of democrat becoming a republican or unexpected retirements or god forbid deaf sorted to realty illnesses within the democrats the majority they've got this precious thing for two years. two years until the next election where they very well may lose their majority, right? they've got two years 24 months to get stuff done with this precious control of both houses of congress and the white house. it is democrats goal to use that 24 months efficiently to get as much done as possible. on the republican side, if we are honest, it's their goal to us as much of that time as possible. democrats and president biden can't use the time. they can't get stuff done in this pr

but county democratic leaders. of the county west virginia democratic party. >> he did vote for the american rescue plan so i am willing to bump it up from 1 to 2 for that. >> reporter: rachel bern is the first vice chair of the county democratic party. >> i think he is in the way that he has been going about legislation right now, he is not good for the progress of our country. >> reporter: ariana is the president of the college democrats of west virginia and says she used to be a page for senator manchin. >> i think that young people like myself want to see congress take some action. while the democrats have control. and he is very much in the way. >> i'd like to speak to the resolution. >> reporter: all of them offended that their fellow democrat won't back the end of the filibuster, which they and many others believe is unfairly stunting democratic priorities in the senate. how do you feel about this? >> very disappointed. bordering on angry. >> reporter: commonly called mon county for short, it is the only wes

democrats have this huge voting rights bill called for the people act which many democrats view as an existential important piece of legislation to protect democracy and its current form considering the assault it's undergoing in state after state. not to mention the ongoing low level insurrection that just running in the background, cultivated by the last president. now the bill would create some minimum baselines to protect the right to vote across the country, so minimum standards across the nation for mail-in voting in early voting and things like that. okay, democrats could not get west virginia senator joe manchin on board with the original version of this bill. he thought it was too overly broad and so he himself started bipartisan negotiations with republicans to craft his own acceptable boating protections, narrower than what democrats have proposed and passed in the house. and what happened next is remarkably similar to what happened in the house for the january 6th commission right? remember, we had chairman thompson on this program. he and his colleague across the aisle, j

he's a freshman democrat. he said that he is disappointed that president biden himself has not done enough to be actively involved in this conversation. he said that the president hasn't said enough publically about his desire to see voting rights being passed. he believes it is the president that should be encouraging the moderate senate democrats who are unwilling to break up the filibuster, he should be encouraging them to take that step. he believes it is imperative to do so because this is the most important piece of legislation for democracy in the estimation of jones and some other progressive democrats. you know, jones went as far as to say to me that these other pieces of legislation that are hotly debated up here, things like police reform and in particular infrastructure where there is some bipartisan progress aren't important if voting rights legislation isn't passed because everything, every policy proposal stems from the ability of every single american to have the easy access to the voting booth

and become the issue for the democratic base.can't get anywhere with this. what's next here? >> i think what you can expect democrats to do, based on what they signaled really to lean into this and get involved in state elections an remindering voters who you send to your state capitols is as influential as who you send to the nation's capitol. and pushing back on voting rights, as you know, this is the first time that washington has not moved forward on voting rights. democrats do have experience on relying on activists and local organizations to rally and try to get the vote out. it's going to be much harder. so what is clear, they just can't rely on republicans that previously suggested that. they're actually for this issue that their vote is saying they're not for. >> what's your consensus how much concern there is behind the scenes among democrats who worry this was set up to fail in a way that ultimately hurts the cause, in that they spent so much time and energy on something that everyone knew was never going to become law

sure, democrats have majorities in the house and the senate, but unless they keep every single democratlockstep in the senate, they will not pass that big bill that they want to pass and it has to be done by this reconciliation which is a specialized kind of legislative maneuver and they can only afford to lose three or four votes in the house. that makes this is a fragile balancing act for biden as he sort of works to keep both sides of this party on board. of course, progressives think the plan is too small. a lot of moderates think it's too big and biden is someone who knows these dynamics really well. he's someone who spent most of his career in the senate who prides himself as a dealmaker, as someone who is comfortable with legislative wrangling. i think it's going to be put to the test in the next couple of weeks here. >> doctor, over to you and your expertise. let's talk about this delta variant as we're on the eve of a july 4th weekend where you don't need to be a soothe sayer to protect americans are going to be out and together and trying to enjoy independence day, but with th

to pass something with only democratic votes. but biden has said both things. he has said we need to do something transformational in this congress as well as we need to restore bipartisanship to washington and so i think his allies on capitol hill are starting to figure out where those two things in which approach will really win out in this sort of debate over ideas as the crock -- clock is ticking down. host: oklahoma city is next. charles, republican line. caller: i would just like to ask you a question. i hear some of the people say that it discriminates against people if they have to show voter id to vote. as far as i know, you have to have your id to get a covid shot, go to the doctor's office, anything that you do. so how is that discriminatory? that is my question. host: scott wong, how big of a sticking point is that provision? guest: well, you know, in the joe manchin plan, he has even said as sort of a middle ground that there should be some way of proving you are who you are by showing some form of voter identificati

republicans and democrats. and when he said, he was well aware that a lot of democrats are very frustrated with him, even though he votes with democrats more than not, but his answer to charles schumer and the majority leader and others is simply this. well, you're either going to get me from west virginia or you're going to get whoever replaces me, and that's not going to be a democrat. the idea being that he's the only democrat who can win in that deep red state, so there have you have to compromise with me. he has taken the example of senator robert burr, the legendary west virginia senator who really believed in the rules of the senate, that has helped inform manchin's belief on the filibuster. but he's not alone. he's willing to be at the forefront, to be the figure head of this movement, even among democrats, to not change or at least not to eliminate the filibuster. but there are others who quietly have the same reservations. and there is not any certainty whatsoever that there is enough sport, even just

and basically become democrats. i think there's a schism, there are ten people in america who are never trump conservatives. mosthi of them live in or near washington, d.c. i consider myself loosely part of this group. there is even disagreement among us and some never trump conservatives think that the republican party is long gone. and the only game in town is the democratic party. therefore, we should join with the democrats and vote for joe biden. others, i think, here, you know, you have even elected officials, people like liz cheney, adam kinzinger, barbara comstock, who want c to reform and restore th republican party. my argument has been -- it is a debatable question, whether or not the republican party could ever be restored to its former glory. but in terms of joining with the democrats, there are probably a lot of reasons not to, if you are a conservative. fiscalss policy. but theth one issue that i think is a moral issue is the pro-life issue.e the democrats -- joe biden actually at one point was a pro-

senate is not going to be what the democrats want. it's going to be something by definition watered down. here is the question, though. will it still be enough in terms of federal protections to counteract all of these voter suppression measures being passed by republican controlled state legislators? >> that is tough work we have ahead of us as a country, to protect voting rights. and of course that happens in two bills that are currently sitting in the senate with the manchin proposal, we are really talking about the for the people act, which in many ways prospectively addresses voting. how do we register? can we vote absentee? what sort of restrictions like identification do we have to provide in order to exercise our right to vote? then there's the john doe's voting rights act which would attempt to restore the protections of section five of the voting rights act, which gives the justice department and private individuals the ability to challenge when states pass these restrictive measures. the mansion plan is really, from my poin

that gets the democrats. of course, you have the next hurdle, which is the filibuster of 10 republican votes? >> that's right, jim. look, this is all about democratic unity. the point here is to display that democrats are united in their ability and their wish to advance voting rights legislation. now one of the biggest holdups, like you said, has been joe manchin, that democrat from the state of west virginia, who has been working with leadership and other democrats, including virginia senator tim kaine to try to put together a package that could garner support of not just manchin but others as well. that was a topic of a long lunch last week where they had this discussion, a robust discussion, i'm told, about what the future of this legislation should be. look, tomorrow's vote is a procedural one. it is not a vote on the actual legislation. it is a vote to open debate on this legislation. here is what the mantle leader, chuck schumer said, about what is at stake tomorrow. >> it's a very simple vote. it mean

mo, let's now put it in the democrats' camp. all would adegree, it's never good when the president has to clarify a statement at such length as this one, a formal written statement. how much damage did he do by saying at first, right after, within two hours of the we have a deal in the white house driveway, saying, look, i'm not signing one without the other. now he's walked it back. how much damage did he do originally and let's talk about it from the democratic side. because by saying i'm going to sign this, now he's ticked off some of the democrats on the left who have made it clear they aren't going to go for the bipartisan bill unless there is this big social spending bill. >> yeah. the fact that they had to walk it back meant that the initial statement wasn't a good thing for them. but i do think where they are right now is -- i bodies agree with dana -- i would disagree with day ma a bit. i don't think it's a bad place for them. they can celebrate the bipartisan legislation, making this deal and they can tout it and the p

i will say on the democratic side real quickly, the fact that dick durbin, the number two democrat in of new hampshire, a strong voice among the democrats, the fact that they're at the table suggests that they are making an effort to reach a deal. chris: so susan, you solve this for us. one, what do you think of the chances of this bipartisan deal? and i thought it was interesting that lindsey graham said i'm not going for the bipartisan infrastructure deal if they're going to pass a multi-trillion dollar reconciliation deal in a straight party line vote. what are the chances for that p compromise and if it falls apart what are the chances that biden can get through a big tax and spend package when you've got people on the center that are saying it's too much and people on the left saying it's not enough? >> you know, it's always safer to bet on stalemate and gridlock. but actually, i think the bipartisan negotiations in the senate are pretty encouraging. i think you've heard that tone from senator graham in your interview with him. 11 republican senators, that is a stronger bipartisa

some perverse of democrats have attacked that bipartisan effort has too modest and are demanding democrats republicans. >> we need to move forward with 50 democratic votes now that the republicans have shown us that they are not serious about creating clean energy jobs. >> democrats have that option thanks to a budget procedure known as from 60 to 51.ve voting bill, and effort lacking support to pass. joe manchin has released a memo outlining a potential compromise. the response from republicans? >> totally inappropriate. all republicans i think will oppose as well. >> if democrats want to pass a boating bill, they may have to make major changes to senate rules, do away with the filibuster end at six evil threshold. chris >> chris: rich edson reporting from delaware. in joining us now from south carolina, g.o.p. senator lindsey graham, who is working with democrats in at least one area. senator, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> senator graham: thank you. >> chris: you're a member of the so-called bipartisan group of 21, which is ten democratic senators and 11 republican senators, who

they were all democrats.hat is interesting -- the statues that need to be removed were sent to the capital by states that were majority controlled by democrats, send to a house that had a majority controlled by democrats accepting of the statues. i think the bill should go further. maybe it is time the democrats change the name of their party. they may be desperate to pretend their party has progressed from their days supporting slavery, pushing jim crow laws, or supporting the kkk. let's be honest. at any place, at any time, if those fundamentals rest somewhere, we cannot let them. let's go through some of the words and actions of a few democrats. just a few years ago, then vice president joe biden praised democrat senator robert byrd. he was the exalted cyclops of the ku klux klan. in his eulogy, he said, for a lot of us he was a friend, a mentor, and a guide. another leading democrat who praised byrd at the time was speaker pelosi. she called him a friend, a great person, and a great american patriot. host

i love my country and i think our democrat -- my democrat and republican colleagues feel the same. if we separate it more, it will not be the country we love and know. it will be hard because it will be back and forth, no matter who is in power. host: that is from democrat joe manchin, the for the people's act will include the following. automatic voter registration, early and absentee mail-in voting, protecting against bought purchase of voter rolls. -- flawed purges of voter rolls. it prohibits coordination between super pac's and candidates, requiring states to use independent redistricting commissions and enhances resources to stave off more threats on election. the argument we are hearing from democrats is that republicans, already have weakened voting laws in georgia and texas. guest: there is the argument from republicans, which is that the changes in georgia are meant to strength voter -- strengthen voter integrity and make sure there is less voter fraud. there are incidents where people are voting fraudulently. it is not a fantasy. it is definitely happening and republican

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he is a democratic opportunist -- opportunist. guest: the filibuster, every few generations we get a big question on whether we are going to change the filibuster. it is a 50-50 senate. there is a lot of pressure to pass installation. if you keep your congress together, you get to block things. particularly with the voting rights legislation, before and then it will continue to be an issue. there will continue to be a lot of pressure on people like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, to change their views. i don't see that happening anytime soon. joe manchin seems pretty deliberate that he wants to keep the filibuster the way it is. there is also talk in the democratic caucus that kyrsten sinema and joe manchin are giving coverage to other people who don't necessarily want to see that filibuster go away. joe manchin has taken a lot of arrows on the filibuster issue but he is not the only person who is supporting it. he seems to be at the focal point of it. i don't think we will see any kind of rules change anytime soon. host: jason di

the hill with democrats?ay i see it we're being threatened with one party rule. the democrats are on a power grab. it is important manchin do the right thing. i think in the end he will. and i think he will save our democracy and constitutional republic. >> harris: two mayoral wins to republicans over the weekend. the gop excited about the victory in mcallen, a border city that's 85% hispanic. gop sees this win as a promising sign for the 2022 mid-term elections. why is that, jason? >> look, i think there is an important power grab here and so i think the democrats are going to be at a risk here. i think republicans will win. >> harris: judy. >> i don't think he knows that. i don't think anyone could predict that right now. i will say this. democrats just have to stop treating hispanics like victims and people of color who are part of the black lives matter movement. they are not. they conceive of themselves as immigrants striving for the american way. every poll shows that. the party seems not to be listenin

last i checked, aoc is the democrat. last i checked, proceed to leave as a democrat. plus i checked, omar is the democrat. last i checked, remember the child's autonomousov zone? i want to see the democrats make the case of the american people. don't put us in charge.e. like the mayor of portland can say. let us abolishan your police and if you don't like the murder rate we can increase it eight times. 800%. the democrats understand they are in trouble and abolishing the police is stupid. the american people know that. african-americans and hispanics overwhelmingly oppose abolishing the police and suddenly this rich white liberals that said let them eat kick and let them be without police are realizing, oh, no. this is unpopular. so they are trying to claim, these aren't the droids you are lookingg for, they've never supported it. it's absurd and ridiculous. sean, if you want to know what joe biden thinks look no further than two of the senior officials appointed to the department of justice. vanita gupta and clark. they are two of the advocates and they advocated it.

there's a democrat/republican negotiation and democrat/democrat negotiation. he's going to be part of the reconciliation because mcconnell keeps stiffing him. >> what rahm was talking about, the bipartisan bill, the progressive democrats want $6 trillion. one of the big questions is which direction is president biden going to go? >> that's the big decision for him. if he chooses the bipartisan route which, again, he doesn't want a gas tax. if he chooses that, the democratic leaders have to be sure there's a bill teed up right alongside it. if they don't, progressive law makers won't be on board. they won't vote for that bipartisan bill. senator bernie sanders is not a hard no on the bipartisan bill. he's a no if the reconciliation bill isn't teed up alongside it, moving with what they want, climate provisions, some are talking immigration reform proposals, that's all getting crafted. if it isn't together, you'll have problems with progressives. >> going back to the manchin thing, rahm's misunderstanding about this is joe manchin is not a creature of washington

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maybe that democrats have a slender majority of power and wish my democratic colleagues understood that the shoe can pinch when on the other foot. >> the vote was 50/50 all senate republicans oppose the legislation. under the senate filibuster rule it takes 60 votes to advance a bill. >> i resident scholar at aei and an expert on election reform, good morning and welcome to "washington journal". rn>> good morning. host: we spent the first hour talking about the vote coming up today that procedural vote on as we want - - s1 for the people act. but in a recent opinion piece, you said there reforms are too broad in your opinion. >> our country is different than many in the world that we have a very decentralized elections we allow states and localities to have their policies and sometimes we pass federal laws which supersede those but those of the smaller number of laws and usually when we have a consensus but this bill goes back to democrats taking over the house in 2018 and they wanted the first bill out of the gate to show the american people what their priorities were on election and d

and democrats, but there are democrats... oh, my gosh my hannity is a genius. >> sean: you know, it is funny but it is also sad but you know why? because every week and i can come on to show every monday and get out the statistics. of human being shot. many of them minorities, many of them whose names we will never hear, names i have scrolled sense the biden/obama years. and nobody ever cares about because they can't politicize it. >> sean, you are the only one -- nobody cares! no one! if you are at the police, you support and if cops arrested there is a process going on. it doesn't matter. i see the name scrolling now. they will go crazy. yet, you are scrolling and you look a bit names, swift, hampton, these are real people, folks. sean is not making these names up. he did not pull these out of a phone book, hey, let's put that segment on the show to get people rolled up in the eyeball. that is a person. that is a real person who is dead. why doesn't matter? these are real people with families. they don't matter? why not? wh

that's something that establishment democrats and progressive democrats and justice democrats and red state democrats can agree on is tax enforcement. there are many things we can do. >> james carville, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you, sir. you bet. >>> still to come, a live report from the united kingdom where president biden made a major announcement involving the coronavirus meant to reassert leadership. it comes as the former president released this bizarre statement involving the trip. we will have details next. >>> with covid vaccine approval for young children coming later this year, i will speak with an fda advisor who cautions against it. your cloud... it isn't just a cloud. it's everything flowing through it. and it's more distributed than ever. one company takes you inside. giving you visibility and insight...to take action. one company... securely connects it all... on any platform, in any environment. between your cloud and being cloud-smart, there's a bridge. cisco. the bridge to possible. bipolar depression. it's a dark, lonely place. this i

the democrats' bill. but they did win support -- the democrats did win support for his backing to simply begin debate, this after chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, said he would agree to allow a vote on man chin's proposed changes to the legislation, assuming they can get on to the bill. but they won't even be able to get onto the bill because they lack the 60 votes to begin debate. so that has caused a debate within the democratic party about whether to simply gut the filibuster all together, reduce that 60-vote threshold to 51. but there is no support, not enough support within the democratic caucus to do that, given the opposition from joe manchin, kyrsten sinema of arizona, and others as well. so where does this leave everything, jake? this issue getting this bill passed into law almost certainly will not happen, nor will splitting this up into smaller pieces, a polarizing issue dividing the party, no sign this is going anywhere. and in a matter of minutes republicans will block it on the flo

democrats line her good morning. -- democrats line. good morning. caller: hello. i am saying it is so stupid right now for people to be voting on should other people be able to vote, you know? because as long as you are here, as long as you are under the so-called governing power, you know, everybody has a right to have a say what happens to them and it is just amazing how stupid we have gotten in the last five years, you know? trump, whatever, and i don't understand him because he came in lying and he has, you know, and i don't want to be racist, but it seems like they want to go to the plantation days, you know? i want to rule you and i want you to work for me. do you know what i am saying? but it is just amazing. people have to come to a conscious mind. everybody has a mind, everybody, and, for some reason, a lot of people have gotten stupid and, you know, come back. host: the legislation the senate will consider today is s1, the for the people act, democrats colic. it would enact automatic registration, enable absentee voting, prohibit purges of voter rolls, c

but this all comes as there's increased frustration from democrats especially senate democrats as to whether or not they want to keep going with negotiating with republicans from the white house or go it alone and use that reconciliation budget process where they wouldn't need republican support to get this over the finish line. biden still indicates he wants to negotiate with the republicans whether or not that's where capito's group or other republicans remains to be seen. just in the last hour with john garamendi he's indicating they could go along with this. take a listen. >> what do we need to do to repair our bridges, roads and trains and transit systems? that gives us a certain number, and frankly it's a significantly larger number than the republicans are willing to move forward on. we know we have sanitation systems that are woefully inadequate. we know bridges are continuing to collapse. we know that the roads are as manchin said, there are potholes out there. yes, senators there are potholes out there and if republicaness are not willing to come up to with number to repair

we all hear the rhetoric coming from the democrats. we hear the senate democrats saying, this will not standle all that talk. but it all comes down to the rule. everyone knows it's down to the rule. it's not down to policy, we get it. it's down to the rule, and we know there are at least two democrats standing in the way of changing the senate rule and reducing that 60-vote threshold down to a majority vote threshold. if that doesn't happen, does that mean the democrats will then just, okay, give up, the words didn't mean anything, we try, they wouldn't change the rule? >> no, failure is not an option here. we're going to have to keep pressing and maybe, just maybe we can move more of my colleagues on the question of filibuster. if it was up to me, we'd eliminate it, but at least creating a carveout, an exception for saing our democracy. i got to remain hopeful. if we were having this discussion a week ago, senator manchin wasn't a yes on this bill. but we got him to yes on this measure. maybe there's room for movement on the filibuste