. >> joining me now is natasha brown, the cofounder of black voters matter.ident saying it's a priority, but here's what senator manchin said this morning. here it is. >> voting is the bedrock of democracy. we should all be concerned about that, brett. there's never been a change with the filibuster, the rights of the minority. and i made no more commitments or promises on that. i am working on trying to make the senate work better. >> what does this tell you about voting rights on the hill? >> it tells me that we have a long fight, but i am hoping, you know, that senator manchin will stick with his word on some level. is it truly a nonpartisan issue, as he claims it is. then he should be leaving the charge of making sure that he gets this bill passed. and he would say that at one point he was open to some kind of rule change around making sure this bill passed. so i think that we'll have to put pressure on senator manchin to do the right thing. i think we'll have to put pressure on the senate to deliver on voting rights. we started 2021, where the momentum w

. >> indeed it is, joining seems to me natasha brown co-founder of black voters matter. you for being with me this morning. i am so frustrated. i know you are, you have been a grass roots organizer on this very issue for a very long time. i think a lot of people at this point are just outraged. we want to know, who should we direct that outrage to? who should we be mad at, at this point, because congress has failed. there is some frustration around the white house. certainly the republicans are poster children for voter suppression at this point and people are helpless and frustrated. what should we be doing? >> i think that until it's over it's not over. i think we got to push at this point right now to make sure that the adminstration makes it a priority. until the end of the year, we have to continue and even then we have to head to the next level. we have to demand before this year closes, we need the administration to actually put action behind the words and in fact the voting rights is important to this administration, we should see not a reset. we don't take a bre