you know, we heard today about jim clyburn spoke eloquently about the mother a.m.e. church. there's also the tree of life synagogue. there's also parkland high school. there are all these mass shootings. that these two bills will greatly reduce. there are also individual shootings. not just mass shootings. individual shootings. in new york we have very good gun safety laws, but we cannot enforce them over the borders from states that do not have good gun safety laws. these two bills will stop that problem. so it will save -- these two bills will save thousands and thousands and thousands of lives every year. and for that we have a moral duty to pass it. we have a political duty to pass it, given the polling. and if republicans stand in the way, they'll pay a price, both morally and politically. and now it's my privilege to introduce one of the leaders in this fight in the senate, senator chris murphy. sheila. somebody else. [laughter] sheila jackson lee, the chairperson of the crime subcommittee in our judiciary committee. ms. jackson lee: thank you so very much. the america

a new president to go without fielding questions in a formal setting about which majority whip jim clyburn said we are doing other things right now, not just to satisfy the media. we are here to satisfy the american people. it back to the border, governor abbott of texas has launched operation lone star to address the migrant crisis along the border, by integrating the department of public safety and texas national guard using air, ground, marine, tactical assets to deny mexican cartels and other smugglers the ability to move drugs and people into texas. acting in defense of his state, when the feds can't or is he said won't. shannon: thank you very much, good to see you. breaking tonight a sixth woman coming forward to accuse new york governor andrew cuomo of sexual harassment. that incident allegedly occurring at the executive mansion in albany. aishah hasnie has the latest tonight live in new york city. >> reporter: there's been such a flurry of these allegations in the last several days but even governor andrew cuomo today told reporters he didn't realize there was another accuser. the

you know, listening to jim clyburn on the floor, i was so moved because clearly nine people would be alive today, literally nine people, members of that congregation would be almost certainly alive today if that killer had not taken advantage of the charleston loophole, a glaring gap in our laws. there is no reason that people should not wait a day or two or three to buy a gun so that a check can be done on them and there is a principle at work here. the authority for universal back checks is nearly universal. almost everybody in the country, including gun owners n.r.a. members want it and the principle should be no check, no sale. no check, no gun. that's the way to make america safer and i think with the leadership of our great leader, senator schumer, we have a real opportunity to make history here. i'm asked often, what has changed since sandy hook? we have a growing grass roots political movement with leaders at the local level changing history and we have house members who have run on this issue, who have not just answered questions, they've made it a priority and so i think th

plus house majority whip jim clyburn joins us.e're speaking with some of the best in washington. whoo do we have? >> quite the line up. we have white house correspondent and msnbc political analyst, who was in the room for today's news conference. james sherman is joining us, founder of punch bowl news. and presidential historian michael besh love is with us along with andrea mitchell, chief washington correspondent. you can see her every day on this network. ayman, over to you. >> thank you very much for that. you asked the president this question about what is happening here on the border. his response to the migrant children coming a cross. he laid the blame at feet of his predecessors. republicans blame biden for reversing trump's actions. who is really to blame for what's happening here? >> we know that immigration is now one of the biggest challenges facing the biden administration. what we saw today from the president, who was trying to lay the blame on his predecessor while also saying that he was owning up to the idea tha

which brings me to south carolina congressman jim clyburn. good to see you.d by president biden to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. it's limited in scope. your reaction to the order. >> thank you very much for having me. i am very pleased to see president biden calling attention to this critical issue. i think that as we are debating budget matters and other matters before the congress today and we talk about the 50/50 senate and the fact that any one person could maybe hold up debate and cause us not to be able to pass laws, we should bring attention to the fact that as we have done with the budget, using the so-called byrd rule, on the reconciliation, to move the budget forward without any filibustering. we need to do the same thing with civil rights and voting rights. these fundamental constitutional principals, there are certain areas of the country that have been denied these constitutional rights and in many instances doing everything they can to make it harder for people to participate in them. i think that what the president did today will call

and jim clyburn who we quote in the book says the harder i work the luckier i get. joe biden talks about luck a lot. what we saw the campaign was a candidate to win for the presidency twice before. he thought about running several times before never got more than 1 percent and an iowa caucus and was doubted by hillary clinton barack obama john kerry, michael bloomberg, donald trump certainly, much of the punditry and who could basically stick to a plan on the best candidate to defeat trump that was his message in the primary and then brought into the broader general election of basically being anti- trump on character and compassion and competence. so now i will hand it off here but for people interested in what really happened and how that informs what our political system looks like in public policy looks like over the next two or four years, you get a good feel how joe biden tries to position himself through the extremes to the extremes of donald trump through the past election and the republican party of congress right now and the extremes of his progressive bas

my friend jim clyburn of south carolina. >> thank you very much, mr. leader, madam speaker and my other distinguished colleagues. i don't think the headlines we saw in "the washington post" this morning -- in this article it talks about what this legislation does for black farmers. and it went onto say this may be the biggest help that black farmers have gotten since the civil rights act. now, all we have to do is take a hard look at the legislation. i know what the 1890 program is. it's a reference to black colleges in the former slave states. we all remember i think the speaker talked about this abe ham lincoln signed the land grant and of course people who looked like me could not attend. so they came back and passed another land grant need in 1890 for the former slave states. this legislation takes a look at the work of those 1890 schools and the discrimination that has taken place with black farmers. i used to run the south carolina commission for farm workers. and i can tell i'm well aware of the inequities that existed in that system. this legis

is about this because there would not be a biden presidency without a jim clyburn endorsement in thatat's interesting about congressman clyburn is that he has been -- he has not been shy about pushing joe biden to do things that he wants him to do. remember the president most recently said he wasn't in favor of doing away with the filibuster. then more recently he has said maybe we should think about going back to talking filibusters making it more difficult for people to just stop bills. but what leader clyburn is talking about, what clyburn is talking about is just doing away with it in order to get voting rights passed. and i think what we're seeing in terms of hr-1 going over to the senate, hearings are starting. they're talking about it. they're laying the groundwork. they meaning democrats and the house and the senate side laying the groundwork for something to happen that would allow the voting rights bills, hr-1 and hr-4 which is the john lewis voting rights act, allowing them to pass on a simple majority vote. >> yeah. and every previous defender of the filibuster rules in th

push to congress on voting rights when texas congressman joins us and south carolina congressman jim clyburn will be here on the first anniversary of bloody sunday without congressman john lewis. >>> following a year of devastation from the pandemic, the house takes it up on tuesday, but senate democrats passed the american rescue plan on their own. not a shred of republican support in the senate chamber. they were only able to get the bill passed through reconciliation, which raises a lot of questions about the future of governance in america and how to pass landmark legislation with the filibuster rule in place. joining me to help answer some of those questions, democrat pennsylvania senator bob casey. senator, good to see you. your overall reaction to the landmark bill you and your fellow senators passed yesterday? >> well, it was a great day because the american people were the winners, and especially families that have been struggling, especially middle class and low income families that almost never, almost never get attention from washington. you know the data that has been cited by c

joining me is jim clyburn and jenae nelson for the naacp legal defense fund. thank you both for being here. whip clyburn, i'm coming back to you to start, especially since today is the 56th anniversary of bloody sunday. here we are, 56 years after reverend josea williams and john lewis and 600 others were beaten on the edmund pettus bridge. here we are fighting those same fights again. >> yes, we are and thank you so much for having me. you know, earlier this morning, i was honored to receive the international award from the bridge crossing jubilee. celebrating as they do every year this momentous occasion. you know from the history, bloody sunday was this actual day, march 7th, 1965. and august 6th, lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act of 1965. that's why i'm in the congress today. and so many others especially from the southern states. but the supreme court eight years ago in shelby v. holder did away with the formula in section 4 that makes that effective. what we're attempting to do now, we've renamed hr-4 in honor of john lewis. we want to pass that

joining us now is democratic majority whip jim clyburn. morning, congressman. >> good morning.? >> i'm doing well. give us the timing of this. will this be passed by noon, and when will americans be seeing those direct $1400 checks? >> well, thank you so much for having me. you know, it could pass by noon, but i wouldn't be surprised to see the republicans start some she nannanigans on the floor to postpone it beyond noon, but i'm not going to give any time. we'll pass it today. we'll send it to the president, and hopefully he'll sign it in time to have a ceremony before we leave for the weekend. >> and do you think that americans will see those checks next week? >> i don't know. it goes out to various agencies. they're not up to snuff yet. still some holdovers. we don't have all our cabinet people in place, so i don't know who is doing the work and how -- whether or not there's some holdovers from the past administration. they would not be in a hurry to get the checks out, if that's the case. so i think that before the end of the month, people, especially those with direct dep

joining me to discuss this, but a lot more, is house majority whip congressman jim clyburn.an clyburn, before we get to infrastructure, an investigation you're doing, issues of voting rights and the filibuster, i want to get your take on these troubling and bizarre allegations being denied by congressman gaetz that he's been under investigation by the justice department and whether you think specifically this is something that the office of congressional ethics should be looking into. >> first of all, thank you for having me. yes, i do think that congressional ethics office needs to look into this because it seems that no one was thinking about him. they were investigating another corrupt politician down there in florida and ran across information indicating that something was going on involving gaetz. so he was not the target here. someone else was. so i think that someone needs to get to the bottom of all of this because i think gaetz is speaking out pretty loudly recently. and since this started -- this investigation started with the trump administration, it may be explai

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house of representatives, majority whip jim clyburn.th carolina to congratulate you for this. what a -- to paraphrase joe biden, what a big, big deal, buddy. what a big deal. talk about it. >> thank you very much, joe. thanks for having me. i look forward to that. things are getting much better now in south carolina and around the country. we will be able to sit down for breakfast very, very soon. thank you very much for that. this bill, as i said, is the most transformative thing i've seen. i thought the affordable care act would be a big deal, it was a big deal. but, you know, it affected a corner of our economy. in this bill, what we're doing is rescuing the hard earned wealth and professions and other endeavors of people across the board. what a like most about this bill is 61% of republicans say they support the bill. i call it a bipartisan bill. it says that joe biden is keeping his promise to do as much for the people who did not vote for him as he will for the people who did vote for him. he's being a president of all americans.

. >> without the endorsement of the third highest ranking democrat in the house, jim clyburn, president would not have won. now clyburn is again speaking out trying to make sure the house passes the covid relief bill tomorrow and arguing that democrats must pass hr-1, the sweeping voting rights bill or lose control of congress. i want to get your sense of someone who has been legislating for a while and been over battles with many bills, where you put this rescue bill that the house is poised to pass tomorrow and get signed shortly thereafter? >> i put it way up on my list of the best things i've seen happen since i've been here in the congress. i thought we were really at the highest point we could get when we passed the affordable care act. having studied history for as long as i have, i knew how long that issue had been around. more than 100 years. roosevelt first introduced the subject. he was about getting it done. this time, in more than 100 years, we have not had this kind of a pandemic to contend with and the economy in tailspin. here comes joe biden's $1.9 trillion program. doi

the democratic whip, jim clyburn, thinks they will get at least one of those two back. they've been using events to slow down even routine votes so even though we have the house floor opening now and this bill is at least the first piece of business they're trying to deal with this morning, it could be well after noon before this vote is finally gaveled. but, again, democratic leaders here were very confident yesterday, holding really two press conferences declaring an early victory on this bill that they think will be incredibly important for crushing the virus and handing the biden administration their first major win. >> talk about the president's plan to sell this bill to the american people, and also this new j&j vaccine news. >> white house is thrilled by this, as the president, president biden, campaigned on this issue saying it was his first priority. it's now about to become a reality. i'm told it's likely he will be able to sign this bill friday, a couple days away, with preparations being made, weather permitting, for a formal celebration on the south lawn to

and the house majority whip jim clyburn joins me.someone who has been legislating a while, and battles over many bills. where do you put this rescue bill the house is poised to pass, probably tomorrow, and get signed shortly there after? >> i put it way up on my list of the best things that i've seen happen since i've been here in the congress. i thought we were really at the highest point we could get when we passed the affordable care act. having studied history for as long as i have, i knew how long that issue had been around. more than 100 years. theodore roosevelt first entered it as subject and here is obama getting it done. this time in more than 100 years, we have not had this kind of a pandemic to contend with. and the economy in tail spins. and here comes joe biden's $1.9 trillion program. doing things that nobody thought could get done. you just talked about the child tax credit and what that will do for children in this country. i saw a hit line in the "washington post" this morning saying, what this bill does for black f

to have to have a plan on how to respond to that pressure. >> house majority whip, congressman jim clyburn moderate democrats who are seen as protecting the filibuster. in an interview with politico, clyburn said, quote, we've got 50 democrats. warnock and ossoff are two. since when did sinema and manchin get to be more important nan ossoff and warnock. he went on, they all got us to 50, so this whole notion that we've got to do what manchin said, warnock is up in two years for re-election. eugene daniels, your thoughts? >> that's the thing i continue to hear from voting rights advocates. over the last couple of years, they started to talk about this more as an issue of making sure that black and brown people have the rights to vote, the issue of the filibuster, right? and you know, black people got joe biden to office. he has talked about that. he's talked about owing them. black women bolstered warnock and ossoff in georgia. black voters are the reason that there is a 50-vote, and with the vice president, a 51tiebreaker in the senate for democrats. so what i continue to hear is you eithe

these are part of a larger bill produced by jim clyburn. there is some $80 billion for broadband buildout in this country. if you are a citizen of this country today and you don't have broadband access, you are going to be left behind in a lot of ways, whether it is telehealth, if you are a veteran seeking benefits, if you are a student accessing the classroom, if you are a businessman accessing the commerce community in your region and the world. broadband is almost a huge and rights -- a human rights issue, so we need to make sure we curb that digital divide and make sure this country has fair and equal access to the internet. that will help lift us up. the pandemic has shown a bright light on the need for that today. peter: do you think net neutrality will be an issue again in this congress? rep. mcnerney: yes, i'm sure it will. when chairman pai of the fcc rescinded the net neutrality provision, i heard from 8000 of my constituents that were up in arms. we had a town hall meeting with then commissioner clyburn. 150 people showed up. peo

there is also the enhanced background checks act, which was sponsored by representative jim clyburn. it would increase the amount of time that firearm sellers must wait to receive a completed background check before transferring a firearm to an unlicensed buyer from 3 days to 10 days. that bill passed the house 219-210, with two republicans voting for the legislation and two democrats voting against it. know what is the importance of those two pieces of legislation? what actual change will those praying, if it is passed by the senate and signed by the president? guest: great question. you mentioned the two bills that passed, hr-8, which causes certain gaps in the background check system and ensures a background check is done before every gun sale, and hr-1446, which closes what is called the charleston loophole. let me explain whath each does. r-8 fixes a g -- hr-8 fixes a gap in the system. jim and sarah past the brady background check law about 27 years ago, just a few weeks ago. during that time, there was no such thing as the internet, and gun shows were not big business. today,

jim clyburn. look at the chair of rules does that change the outcome for the electoral college to president bush? i could answer the question for you. yes it would. >> but the losing candidate did not organize our rally with the certification of the electoral college on january 6t. >> you want talk to trump or ask me the question? >> i am showing your question does not hold merit. >> do you regret supporting that? >> no i don't. >> there were battleground state. >> tell me when you're done with your questions and i can answer. >> and answer now? >> which question you want me to answer. >> that would invalidate millions of votes. >> should i support texas law? yes. because that is where you go, to the courts. so now you mixed it with a congressional question, did the democrats member, candidate go to the courts did she go there? she didn't go to the courts she came to congress. >> what was her answer why she came to congress and not the courts like she should? do you know what her answer was? >> sh

democrats could oppose some of those changes made by their senate colleagues, but majority whip jim clyburntoday they think they do have the votes to get it passed, which mean it could be on the president's desk as soon as tuesday. jericka. >> duncan: christina ruffini for us in washington tonight, thank you. it's a landmark day in the history of the civil rights movement. 56 years ago today, the late john lewis led a voting rights march across selma, alabama's edmund pettus bridge only to be brutally attacked by state troopers and police. unlike previous anniversaries there was no march this year. a virtual ceremony was held in its place. president biden honored lewis today by signing an executive order promoting voting access for all americans. a silent march was held in minneapolis today for george floyd. tomorrow jury selection begins in the trial of former police officer derek chauvin, who is facing murder and manslaughter charges in floyd's death. video showing chauvin pressing his knee into floyd's neck last may sparked protests around the world. police and the city are on alert, as

but these are part of a larger bill that was produced by jim clyburn. there's $80 billion for broadband buildout in this country. i think it's very important. if you are a citizen of this country today and you don't have broadband access, you are going to be left behind in a lot of ways, whether it's telehealth or veterans benefits. if your student, access to the classroom. if you're a business, access to the commerce community in your region in the world. rock band is almost -- we need to make sure we can close the digital divide and make sure everybody in this country has fair and equal access to the internet. that will help lift us up. basically they can't ms has just shown a bright light on the need for that today. >> host: do you think net neutrality will be an issue again in this congress? >> guest: oh, yes. i'm sure it will. when chairman pai sort of rescinded the net neutrality provisions, i heard from 8000 of my constituents that that which is sort of in arms. we had a town hall meeting with then commissioner clyburn, 150 people show up. people

the biggest arguments right now, especially from house democrats including house majority whip jim clyburn is that he is tying that filibuster which is what demoats feel is going to absolutely block passage of voting right reforms, they are connecting that directl to racism. and so they're trying to apply a lot of pressure to their senate democratic colleagues to try to reform the filibuster in some way in order to make sure that those voting rights protections are passed. rachel: and just to follow up to that, laura, because we heard from president joe den, he did comment on this. he said maybe open to reform on the filibuster. do you think that would amp up the pressure onhe white house to reconsider addressing this? laura: potentially. when biden said that he was open to reform, he was talking about a talking filibuster which in effect just makes it more painful for the minority to block legislation. it wouldn't actually take away that 60-vote threshold. but it was significa that he even took the step toward saying that he was open to reform. and so as -- as more house democrats, as civ

address the broadband infrastructure but these are parts of a larger bill that was produced by jim clyburn and there's about $80 billion for broadband buildout in this country i think it's very important. if you are a citizen of this country today and you don't have broadband access you will be left behind in a lot of ways whether it's a telehealth or if you're a veteran, veterans benefit or student access to the classroom and if you are a business access to the commerce community in your region, in the world and, broadband is almost human rights issues so we need to make sure that we can close the digital divide and make sure everybody in this country has fair and equal access to the internet and that will help us, that will help lift us up, basically the pandemic has shown a bright light on the need for that today. >> host: do you think net neutrality would be an issue again in this congress? >> guest: oh yes, i am sure it will. you know, when determined by sort of rescinded the net neutrality provision then i heard from 8000 of my constituents they were just sort of up in arms and they

some democrats are already turning their eyes to the next legislative battle house majority whip jim clyburn filibuster should not stand in the way of a sweeping election reform bill the house passed last week. moderate democrats have early spoken in favor of the filibuster much to the dismay of the progressive wing of the democrat party. i am jon scott, now back to "justice with judge jeanine". ♪. judge jeanine: it is time to sound the alarm, tonight we have a new segment where we willt inform you the viewers about the most destructive policies of the biden administration and the democrats. earlier today the senate passed a $1.9 trillion covid relief bill that is headed back to n te house before it goes to biden's desk. republicans fought hard against the national debt but the package passed, the wrong party line. former white house advisor peter navarro to break down what it all means. all right peter, hit it what does it mean and why should we be alarmed? >> you know who is going to getn burned it's going to be homeowners and taxpayers, we have a situation where wereea spending money we d

turn back to capitol hill, joined via zoom to the number three democrat in the house, congressman jim clyburnfungus in clyburn, we all know on c-span that you have the ear of president -- congressman clyburn, we all know you have the ear of president biden. what should he tell the country tonight? guest: thank you for having me. i think the president should just tell the country what we have done with this legislation. people have been waiting. we cannot allow his opponents to fill in any blanks that might be there. he should share with the american people exactly what we have done, why we did it. for them, for their families, for their communities. i think it will bode well. a big mistake was made back in 2009, when we did what needed to be done after the great recession. we did what we needed to do for the. we never took the time to tell people exactly what we have done. we lost seats because of the affordable care act. it was simply because people did not realize -- it took four or five years to realize what really had occurred. that is what he has to do tonight, in my opinion. we will tel

in addressing the house democrats today, president biden thanking congressman jim clyburn for the criticalorsement that helped him win the nomination. >> i also want to note it was almost exactly a year ago today that you delivered the endorsement to me in south carolina. it meant so much to me and my campaign. you're a great friend. >> so, joining me now to discuss is amy parnes. she is the senior political correspondent for the hill and john allen senior correspondent for nbc news. they are the coauthors of the new book, lucky how joe biden barely won the presidency. thank you so much. i think the last time i talked to you guys was shattered, i'm not sure. but it's been a while. good to see both of you. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> amy, i remember a little over a year a go in the campaign, it seemed like joe biden was toast after iowa and new hampshire. but we believed that he could win and that he could governor. when you look at his presidency, having covered the campaign, what do you see now? >> i mean, i think i see consistency. it's something that we talk a lot about in the

that bill was introduced by close by an ally and house majority whip jim clyburn who called it a goodwhat are the other steps? joining the aw or hawkins. second remnant columnist for breitbart news. what can we take from this? >> it does exactly what you say. it's going to extend the amount of time we will know and understand that ten days or ten business days and at the end of those ten days if your background check hasn't been completed, you've -- you can appeal for ten more days. you can escalated ten-day review and it's at the end of those ten days if they haven't found something yet then the sale was allowed to proceed. that's how it's written right now. in other words, it would end up being 20 business days for some people. that would be, who knows how many weeks? if there were federal holidays and every thing else. it's going to throw a wrench in everything. >> laura: like so many bills in congress, it seems the joe manchin of west virginia will likely be someone who decides whether or not but bill actually moves onto the senate. and passes the senate obviously. is this attract

. >> we look back now and before jim clyburn came forward, when he was left for kind of just a has-beenbo joe, heee is mojo j. >> sean: oh, wow,, i guess instead of the gettysburg address, or grandchildren will be reading biden's march 11th prime time speech to the nation. even though joe didn't do a thing, that's all donald trump's work. here with reaction, fox news contributor, media reporter for "the hill," joe concha. the fawning coverage reminded me of the question to obama, "what do you find so enchanting about the office of being president?" i don't recall those questions, or that kind of praise, ever, for donald trump.ic >> oh, no, that went on a four year vacation, obviously, 2016-2020, but i want to stick to facts, in terms of mr. biden speech, because it is amazing how many misleadinger statements this speechwriter made in that particular speech. as you said, this is not teleprompter, not joe biden extemporaneous, off the cuff. first, biden said, "i said a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top, i said i intended to get 100 million shots in people's arms and

you hear jim clyburn comparing it with brown versus board.aying why aren't they paying attention to the two democratic senators from georgia, they also are a part of that democratic majority in the senate. and we saw senator warnock in georgia argue that exact point. which is that senators are more concerned about protecting the minority party in the senate, than they are protecting minority voters. so increasingly you're hearing, house democrats, civil rights leaders even a number of senate democrats like amy klobuchar from minnesota saying that the reason she thinks the filibuster needs to be done away with is because it's becoming impossible to pass what they consider very critical legislation like the voting rights expansion. as well as police reform. and that it's going to be impossible to do that if they don't break the filibuster. so this is all adding to the pressure on biden with senatesc. and that's a big question, which is were do they end up and how far account democrats push them as they make like margaret said baby steps to more

carolina primary thanks in huge part to that endorsement from the veteran democratic congressman jim clyburn, it was the first dab of biden blue on the primary map that turned decidedly blue and ultimately led to victory. something our next guests know a lot about. welcome them back. amie parnes, senior correspondent for the hill, and jonathan allen, reporter for nbc news digital. coauthors of "shattered: inside hillary clinton's doomed campaign," but here to talk about the new book out tomorrow, "lucky: how joe biden barely won the presidency," as a reading experience, like you, though not as granular as you, i was there for all of it, knew how every story ended. but reading your account of bernie's heart attack, pete's meeting with obama, clyburn endorsement, and so on and so on, accelerates your heart rate to read it in narrative form. amie when you look at title like this, i'm sure you're hearing from biden folks lucky, what is do you mean, this is hard work and best candidate. how dead was the biden campaign and how close did it come to folding up shop? >> pretty dead. look back at iowa

jim clyburn said democrats want to keep enjoying them as a majority then they have to find a workaround the filibuster he said maybe there would be a rule i wonder if the president would be behind some sort of legislation talking about civil rights and voting rights on legislation and any sort of filibuster workaround for specific legislation. >> again that is not his preference and he believes with an issue as important as voting rights there should be a path forward to work with republicans and democrats to get it done so nothing has changed with his policy on the filibuster. >> it's more about the rule to get about the filibuster for the specific legislation like voting rights and what he possibly get behind that. >> i understand i just don't have, his preference isn't to make different changes to the rules, to the filibuster rules. >> on the separate issue on the border i understand that i wonder can you talk a little bit more about what was most concerning especially i know the administration talks to children and officials. has that decision been reached? >> i think first i'm goin

house majority whip jim clyburn said it would have been cat traffic is if the filibuster would be used to insure voting rights. what's your message to kirsten cinema or joe manchin or even president biden who all support voting rights but made clear they're not in favor of eliminating the filibuster, which all but guarantee this bill dies? >> i don't think it's necessary to accomplish the purposes of passing these bills. the elections clause in the constitution guarantees that the congress alone has the power to regulation the time, manner and place of elections. that is a power that is sacrosanct. we are watching as individual legislators try to restrict access to vote. as we have seen it carved into the filibuster rules, and for budget rec sill racing, the protection of our democracy with ripples, it demands the entire u.s. senate acknowledge protection of democracy is so fundamental that it should be exempt from the filibuster rules. we encourage everyone to go to fair fight.com to learn more. >>> lastly, on friday, the majority of democrats in new york's congressional delegation, i

. >>> house majority whip jim clyburn said it would be catastrophic if the filibuster would be allowedd to block these efforts to ensure voting rights. what's your message to democratic senators such as kyrsten sinema or joe manchin or even president biden who made clear the rights but they're not in favor of lifting the filibuster so this dies? >> i don't believe it's necessary to invoke the filibuster. congress alone has the power to regulate the time, manner and place of elections. that is a power that is sacricanct while they try to impose the law. the protection of our democracy, especially in the wake of the insurrection on january 6, and its conditioned ripples throughout our state legislatures, it demands that our entire u.s. senate is so fundamental that it should be exempt from the filibuster rules. >> i want to ask you on friday, the majority of democrats in new york's congressional delegation, including majority leader chuck schumer publicly called on democratic governor andrew cuomo to resign because of the myriad of scandals and sexual allegations against him. as a member

we have heard from majority whip jim clyburn who rejected the idea of a gas tax but house speaker nancyhis morning how would they pay for such a thing? could they raise taxes? she demured and said potentially that everything was on the table. then finally, fred, how is this bill going to get through the senate? that is really the critical battle where that is going to play out. are they going to be able to break the filibuster, the 60 votes necessary to push it through as normal? or will they use the process of budget reconciliation? just a simple majority 51 votes to do that, which requires the senate parliamentary to jump in and to approve all the provisions inside of this massive bill. these will take weeks. democratic law makers are looking at potentially september to roll out an infrastructure bill because they know there's going to be a lot of behind the scenes negotiations. >> thank you to both of you. we appreciate it. >>> still ahead, new york governor andrew cuomo fighting to stay in office as more of his former allies question whether he can lead effectively. we're live with

jim clyburn answers the question. >> i think we lost two the first time.t in half this time. >> republicans won't support the bill because of who endorsed it. >> when senator sanders calls it the most progressive piece of legislation he's ever voted for, that will be understandably a red flag to republicans. >> liberal democrats signalled that they would vote for this bill but progressives may hit a wall in the senate. >> i think the patience of progressive voters is pretty thin. executions won't go over. >> tomorrow in the house of representatives, they will move a gun bill wednesday and thursday. they have already moved hr-1, the voting access bill. both of those bills are going to hit a wall. they'll have problems advancing those causes in the u.s. senate because you have to overcome a filibuster. you need 60 votes. dick durbin said he didn't think in a 50/50 senate there were the votes to permanently terminate the filibuster. martha? >> martha: thanks, chad. let's bring in rick scott of florida. he said it's wasteful and will drive up the debt. the onl

budget would actually increase for police because he wanted community policing we tell a story about jim clyburnlewis on the house floor and john lewis warning defunding the police is something that could really frustrate the overall goals of the black lives matter movement. i think what we've seen from president biden since he became president is a real focus on equity that wasn't necessarily as evident from his campaign and certainly from his rhetoric on the campaign. if you'll recall, he was getting hammered by trump, all of the democrats were getting hammered by trump and republicans on the idea of defunding the police. so biden saying he wasn't going to do that i think was politically helpful for him with some voters but it's an issue you could see ongoing beyond just this election and how biden treat the african-american community, how he treats the latino community, asian lgbtq but what we've seen so far is a focus on equity. >> and a progressive community which is not always a monolith in terms of some of its positions and never has been. in the book you're going to detail about the stru

the house majority whip jim clyburn says there may only be one democratic nay tomorrow but problems lurk for democrats on the rest of their legislative agenda. they will debate a gun control bill tomorrow and thursday in the house. the house has already approved the voting access bill. they hope to do immigration reform. a failure to pass those bills could outrage the left wing of the party. >> there are so many things we've committed to voters to do and if the ♪ just becomes the graveyard where all good things go to die, as it was under mitch mcconnell, then 4 we're going to have a real problem in two years. >> liberals have big expectations, but they could meet a dead end in a 50-50 senate. >> the majority in the senate is as small as possible, and it's controlled by two moderate or conservative democrats, as well as the rules of the u.s. senate. the bottom line is, the aspirations of progressives are dead. >> the only way they can pass some of those bills is to terminate the filibuster. dick durban is the majority whip in the senate. he said this afternoon in a split senate democrats

congressman jim clyburn of south carolina, the house majority whip. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, what happens in vegas stays in vegas. but what can happen if no one shows up? nevada's governor has plans to revive tourism and the state's economy. he'll join us next. >>> are the covid vaccines safe for expectant mothers? we'll focus on pregnancy in tonight's "dear doctor." >>> and later, asian-american activism with our own richard lui. right now he's here with the headlines. >>> stories we're watching for you this hour, the head of the canal authority says officials are considering removing the containers from that massive cargo ship in the suez canal. 14 tugboats are trying to pull the ship in different directions. it's kept traders from using the route. >>> tennessee has enacted restrictions for transgender athletes. the bill requires students to prove their gender at birth to participate in sports. >>> and the number of american bald eagles has quadrupled since 2009. 1963 was the all-time low of just 417 known nesting pairs. tha

couldn't do that and why don't you get rid of the filibuster and you had pbs quoting chuck schumer and jim clyburnaw katlyn collins invoking barack obama. but hardly ever did i see, which is how do you respond to republican criticism that x, such and such. >> i think so. they tried to drill into the immigration issues that's front and center, at least we saw it there, unlike in examples you're giving where there was none. but i think the fact that they allowed him to speak so long-winded and that he only called on 10 reporters total in the 60 minutes or so, it really defined perhaps the way things will be going forward and i hope that changes because even the border questions with the exception of cecilia vega who did a great job of ask whether or not it was acceptable to biden, the conditions and the situation at the facilities, there was little pushback. we have an unprecedented crisis on our border and no one with asked at what point are you going to bring enforcement back because everyone in america knows that's why it's continuing to surge. howie: you of course have been there many times and