Breyers last great important decisions if he were to step down. This notion that if we talk about it, it will make him more resistant to the completely rational choice to step down at this time, strikes me as just so childish. I mean, senators face this all the time. Members of the court have faced it throughout our lives, the question of should soandso not run for reelection, and adults deal with that. And he should understand that of course theres plenty of rational reason why he should step down. This is the perfect summer for him to do that. And the notion that if we talk about it, he just might stay there till hes, i dont know what, hes 82 now, i dont know. Do you not feel even the least bit superstitious about it, though . I mean, given what we have just been through with the last few vacancies on the court. Is there like a little, like, dont walk under the ladder, dont cross the black cat, superstition feeling for you about talking about it . Or is that just me . Youd have to prove to me that Stephen Breyer is not an adult. And then i could entertain things like superstition. But with adults in washington, you know, who hold these positions, come on. I mean, come on. Of course, of course theyre going to talk about it. Rationally, i am with you. But the little fear center at the core of my Heart Flutters and twinges with every utterance about this subject. Rachel ive got to leave it to you. I will never mention it to you again. I will mention it to millions of people on this program. But i just wont, i wont stress your heart that way again. I just am going to leave, i have to get my heart rate and my Blood Pressure out of the ceiling now. Ill be right back. I get it, i get it. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. As The Moment Of Truth approaches for Voting Rights legislation in the United States senate, we had a big breakthrough today when Stacey Abrams announced that she agrees with and can support joe manchins proposed changes in the for the people act. A week ago when joe manchin wrote an oped with the title that broke democrats hearts, why im voting against the for the people act, democrats complained joe manchin did not mention anything in that article that he disagrees with in the for the people act, or that he would like to change. So yesterday, joe manchin met that criticism head on with a memo that he made public specifying the changes that he would like to make in the bill. And that was stage one of the breakthrough. Now, that felt like a Significant Development yesterday, but it was not until today that we saw how significant it is. When Stacey Abrams began her day on television saying that she can support the manchin proposal. Is that a compromise you could support . Absolutely. What Senator Manchin is putting forward are some bake Building Blocks that we need to ensure that democracy is accessible no matter your geography. Those provisions that he is setting forth are strong ones that will create a level playing field, Will Create Standards that do not vary from state to state, and i think will ensure that every american has improved access to the right to vote despite the onslaught of State Legislation seeking to restrict access to the right to vote. Joe manchins changes to the bill include making election day a public holiday, automatic voter registration, banning partisan gerrymandering, and requiring some form of voter i. D. With a range of possibilities that could include, for example, a utility bill. Democrats have opposed voter i. D. Provisions that could exclude many voters if its limited to drivers licenses and other forms of i. D. S that republican legislation use. And heres what Stacey Abrams told Nicolle Wallace today about why she can now accept Senator Manchins version of voter i. D. Let me read to you what stacy abrams said since that videos not going to tell you. Its about making sure that, yes, you can demonstrate you are who you are, but that the restrictions placed on how you do so should not be untenable. You should not be allowed to use your gun license in texas, but not your student i. D. So across this country we are seeing a clamor for people to say they want democracy to work for everyone, that there should be minimum standards that do not change based on your race or your geography. Georgia democrat senator Raphael Warnock said that hes very encouraged by joe manchins proposals and told nbc news, quote, i have never been opposed to voter i. D. , and in fact, i dont know anybody who is who believes people shouldnt have to prove that they are who they say they are. But what has happened over the years is people have played with Commonsense Identification and put into place restrictive measures intended not to preserve the integrity of the outcome, but to select certain groups. As Senate Democrats began uniting around a version of the bill that they could all support, majority leader Chuck Schumer announced hes going to file he was going to file a Cloture Motion that would allow him to bring a vote early next week, probably tuesday. That vote on tuesday will require a 60vote threshold that the senate needs on a vote like that in order to proceed then to actually voting on the bill itself, passing the bill itself after that 60vote threshold, only requires 51 votes. That means that 10 republicans are going to have to vote with the democrats in favor of proceeding to that bill next week. And joe manchin is the democrat who is trying to find those 10 republicans. Ive been talking to stacey, talking to everyone, trying to get republicans to understand, thats the bedrock of our democracy. Accessible, fair, and basically secure voting. Thats it. And right now, a divided country this is not about me, its about our country. People better start looking at how we got to where we got to january 6th and why we dont want to picks it. Do you think you can get republicans to vote i hope, i hope. Have you talked to republicans . Ive talked to everybody, im talking to everybody. You know that basically wikkowski signed on to the john lewis voting act with me. Youve got to keep working, you cant give up on this stuff, and you cant separate our country any further. After that, after joe manchin said hes once again in search of republican votes, after that, Mitch Mcconnell once again proved that what President Biden said about him yesterday is always true. Mitch has been nothing but no for a long time. And im sure he means exactly what he says. But well see. Nothing but no. And here what is Mitch Mcconnell said today. After joe manchin said he was in search of republicans. Heres what Mitch Mcconnell said about how many republicans will support joe manchins version of the bill. All republicans i think will oppose that. And so when joe manchin is on the senate floor next week for that vote, watching every single republican oppose him, will he then be ready to change the senate rule on the 60vote threshold as he recently said in a private discussion with a Nonpartisan Group he is willing to do under certain circumstances . Leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman colin allred of texas. He has worked as a Voting Rights attorney before going to congress. Also congressional historian norm ornstein, american about surprise institute, coauthor of its even worse than it looks how The American Constitutional System collided with the new politics of extremism. Carson, the question of the day for democrats. Do you agree with Stacey Abrams, can you support joe manchins compromise bill . Lawrence, i think this is like christmas come early. Because this meets the thresholds of what we talked about last time i was on your show. Which is number one, it allows americans to register to vote. Allows them to vote early by mail and on election day, free from interference. And it makes sure their votes are counted and not diluted through partisan gerrymandering. And so the first hurdle we had to get over was to get enough democratic votes in the senate for a Voting Rights bill. We have that now in this form from Senator Manchin. And thats the first hurdle. Of course, youve had about what the next one is, which is how we get around the filibuster. I think this is a very Good Development for anyone that cares about Voting Rights, and we all should. Norm ornstein, you were here last night discussing the fact that joe manchin when he was kind of caught on tape saying he is willing to change the 60vote threshold in various ways, including an idea first proposed by you and by senator al franken, requiring a 41 vote to block cloture, as opposed to the 60vote threshold. The pressure then would be on the republicans to come up with the votes, not the democrats. Is there any suspense after what Mitch Mcconnell said today, is there any suspense about what happens on that 60vote threshold vote, probably on tuesday next week, on this bill . None discovery, lawrence. If you noticed in that little clip with Mitch Mcconnell, he had roy blunt on one side of him, John Barrasso on the other. John barrasso the other day said, never mind a oneterm president , i want to make joe biden a halfterm president. Roy blunt in that private conversation, joe manchin said was his very dear friend, immediately came out and said, no way would i do this, turned around and said, now its the Stacey Abrams bill. Which itself is a pretty awful thing to have done. But manchin has made it clear for a while, if you read between the lines, or read between the lines, that he wanted to test the republicans when it came to the big issues. The January 6th Commission and Voting Rights. Once youve tested those, i think were on a path to getting changes in the filibuster that are going to give us opportunities in a lot of different areas, and this particular compromise, and im really delighted to be on with colin allred, whos a star in congress, as he was before. But this particular bill passes the test. And the voter i. D. , there are lots of ways of doing this that actually will be beneficial and not cost people and not make it difficult for them to get it. And if you do something, i had proposed a long time ago with andy young and Martin Luther king iii putting an i. D. Photo voluntarily on a Social Security card. You can get anywhere. Get it in a postcard. It wont cost anything. Then you can use it in state and local elections as well as federal ones. Curtis allred, the voter i. D. Provision in this bill, if it is passed into law eventually, would that override any of the voter i. D. Provisions that already exist out there in some republican states that, for example, allow you to use a gun license, dont allow you to use a student i. D. . Unfortunately youre talking about my state, there, lawrence. We have only a limited set of i. D. S we could use. It would. The voter i. D. We had in texas before they passed the restrictive photo voter i. D. Was exactly what Senator Manchin is talking about. Which is that you could bring a utility bill. I used to go with my mom when she would go vote, she would just bring her water bill, and she could vote with that. So thats actually just going back to where we were in texas previously. And as norm knows, as you know, lawrence, there are a lot of folks who dont have a photo i. D. Because they dont need one, because theyre elderly, but they like to vote in person, or they never had to get one because theyre not traveling, they dont have a bank account. Disproportionately, those folks are africanamerican and latino, especially in the south. Weve had court case after court case that has shown how discriminatory that can be. Proving who we are by having to bring Something Like a utility bill is a reasonable step and something i can support. Norm, take us to what happens wednesday, assuming the democrats dont get to the 60vote threshold on tuesday, whenever this cloture vote comes up. Play out for us what then happens in the senate. Joe marcin confers with the democrats, and what happens . So i think manchin may want to wait until theres a second vote on the January 6th Commission, which is what really i think started him down this path. But i think were going to see the democrats caucus with manchin, sinema, and everybody there, and begin to work through the reasonable options that manchin himself has said he would support. The one that al franken and i have proposed, including talking Filibuster Elements so you put the burden on the minority. Moving the number to 55. And in an ideal world, also making that present and voting. Ways as he said himself that shift the burden back to the minority. Theyre not going to want to have those burdens. Were still a little ways away from actually getting the right strategy and the right approach that all the democrats would support. Youll need all 50 and the Vice President in the chair. But were getting much closer. And i think its 100 clear that we will get no more than one or two votes, if any, among the republicans for this very reasonable bill in Which Manchin tried to reach out to them with the voter i. D. Issue. And then were on a path towards something positive. And it would be something that should make us all very happy. Carson allred, weve come a long way from some democrats during the president ial primaries thinking that joe biden was still working in the old world where you could do business with Mitch Mcconnell. There he was yesterday saying that mitch is going to say no all the time. He always does. And then today, mitch, of course, says no. Exactly the way the president predicted. So joe biden expected Mitch Mcconnell to be exactly where he is tonight. Yeah, you know, President Biden knows whats happening. And hes been paying more attention i think than folks give him credit for. But what i think President Biden needs to do, what Chuck Schumer needs to do, is treat Senator Manchin like dirksen was treated by lbj in the passage of the Voting Rights act in 1965, which is put his arm around him, even though hes a republican, and say, this can be your legacy. You can save our democracy by being the one who makes this happen. Thats how Lbj Got Dirksen to lead the fight and to pass the Voting Rights act in 1965 on a bipartisan basis to get around Southern Democrats who were trying to block it. What we need now is the white house, senator schumer, anyone else, speaking with Senator Manchin to say, listen, this can be your legacy. Youre the one that can turn back this tide weve had since 2013 with the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights act, you can restore american democracy. What we saw january 6th, you can respond to this. Thats what i think this can be about. Carson allred, supporting the Manchin Compromise also endorsed by Stacey Abrams, thank you very much for joining us tonight, getting your important expertise on this. Norm ornstein, as always, thank you for your perspective on this. Coming up, today the United StatesSupreme Court in a 72 decision once again upheld the Affordable Care act, and joe biden once again used his most famous phrase ever to describe what a very big deal that is. What happens to the party that has been lying for ten years that it is going to repeal and replace obamacare . David plouffe jones us next. Rar spending is trending. Just ask overly confident diy Rashida Rashida wait, was this the right wall . Or last minute gift shopping Rashida Rashida im putting a bow on it wow. Even sneaking away for a vacay rashida. Rashida shhh ive earned this . 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After the Supreme Court ruled today, President Biden said his famous phrase once again, in code, in a tweet. With millions of people relying on the Affordable Care act for coverage, it remains, as ever, a bfd. And its here to stay. So what happens now to the Political Party that has been lying to its voters for a decade that they are going to repeal and replace obamacare . Joining us david plouffe, former Campaign Manager and white house Senior Adviser to president barack obama. He is an msnbc political analyst. David, this feels like, you never know, feels like the last chapter of the republican attempt to get rid of the Affordable Care act. I think thats right, lawrence. I mean, that was the original big lie. They spent a decade, essentially, defined by the lie that somehow they were going to get rid of the Affordable Care act. Thats been replaced now by the effort to destroy our democracy. So they failed on eliminating health care for millions. Theyre very much alive in their efforts to kill our democracy. And listen, wouldnt it be great over the next few months if we could say the Affordable Care act is alive forever, and the filibuster as we know it is dead forever . Thats kind of where we could go as a country. Yeah, i think, listen, whats fascinaing for me is in the 2012 reelection, which was awhile ago, that is really when the Affordable Care act began to grow in popularity. The reality, the benefits were available to people, it wasnt just theory. I think you see Enrollment Numbers up. Again, the lesson, as you remember, there was a lot of democrats, not many, but enough, after ted kennedy passed away, who said, we kind of need to give up on health care. Weve been sitting here, Tens Of Millions of people without health care, a lot of people would have died, a lot of people would be a lot more sicker than they were, theyd be bankrupt. The lesson here is, when youve got the power, the democrats have it right now, youve got to use it. Youve got to use it to the maximal amount you can to help as many people as you can. Because you never know when thats going to change. So by the way, if you had given up, its hard for me to think of, what is the number two Obama Administration domestic legislative achievement . This number one is so big, so important, so historic, i know you guys pulled off more than that. But imagine what this legacy would be tonight without it. Well, i have a list, of course. I still think it would be a strong legacy. But yeah, i mean, health care in this country reformed in a major way that made Health Care Available to just about everybody had eluded the country for 100 years. We had medicare, medicaid. So that was, i think, President Obama, senator harry reid, nancy pelosi, held everybody together in saying, if we dont do it now, it could be 10, 20, 30 years before we have the opportunity. Whether its infrastructure, tax reform changes, protecting democracy, immigration reform. Im more optimistic today than i was yesterday, prior discussion with your guests was super illuminating, because i think you can see a pathway now where maybe enough Senate Democrats say, enoughs enough, protecting our democracy, on some of these economic measures, on immigration reform, we can move forward. What is the lesson from the passage of the Affordable Care act in that tragic and dramatic moment senator ted kennedy died and at that moment the democrats had before he died, 60 democrats in the senate, 60 votes. Went down to 59. It did look like all is lost. It looked just plain hopeless but somehow it got done. Whats the lesson that you take from that into the legislative struggles that are going on now, Voting Rights, infrastructure . Well, lawrence, youre a great student of history. So first of all, when you have an opportunity, when you have the power, its going to be fleeting. Maybe it lasts a number of years and cycles, maybe it doesnt. So the things that you ran on that you think are important for the country, i tend to think when you do the right thing for the country, theres good politics to follow. Even if not, ill they have forget, i was not in the white house at the time, but i was in the oval office with President Obama the night scott brown won that special election in massachusetts. We talked about health care. And this is going to sound like the west wing episode, forgive me, but its true. He said, you know, we didnt run in that Campaign Last year, in 2008, to occupy this office. We ran to do something with it. And i think enough democrats back in 2009 and 2010 cast a lot of tough votes because they understood that. Thats what has to happen now. I will say our democracy has never been in this much peril, lawrence. Theres a whole bunch of things we need to do to make progress in this country. But this is existential. If you think that this republican wont go to the most furthest extremes to hold on to power, to steal power, to deny voters their franchise, i i dont know what youre watching. Its happening in front of our eyes right now. And so we have to find a way. And i think this effort by joe manchin today is incredibly constructive to provide a way to stop those that want to kill our democracy from doing so. That, by the way that President Obama line you gave us in the oval office is, i believe, the best oval office line ive heard not written by aaron sorkin. David, before you go, as you see whats happening with Senator Manchin and you know how difficult it is to get to these compromise positions, what do you see unfolding next week, assuming that the cloture vote fails because it doesnt get 60 votes in the senate on the Voting Rights bill . Well, first of all, i think Mitch Mcconnell is really going to rue the day that he decided to play politics and deny the commission to investigate january 6th. I think that for joe manchin and some other democrats in the senate really was a forcing function. I dont think joe manchin would put this out today as an empty gesture. How much of this hes coordinating with schumer, i dont know. But my sense is theres a chess a bunch of chess moves that are now in motion. And i think that you know, the fact of the matter is, this is a very good proposal today. It doesnt have everything everyone would like. But in terms of protecting democracy, making it easier to vote, extending early vote, theres a lot of really solid proposals here. Which is why everybody from colin allred to Stacey Abrams is supporting it. My guess is that theres a plan here. And i think at the end of the day, as you know, lawrence, when people have said theyre opposed to something, so in joe manchins case, hes opposed to the for the people act, opposed to the filibuster reform, but now hes showing a little openness. Theres got to be an exit ramp. I think the exit ramp is what republicans are doing all over the country. Theyre not hiding what theyre doing. They want to change who gets to decide who wins elections, give that power to state legislatures. I think they can say, we didnt want to do this but we were forced to do it because the republicans clearly have their aims on harming, if not ending, our democracy. So i think that the opening act of the play was really today. Im excited to see what happens next week. David plouffe, you have that combination of experience that i could listen to all night, expertise in president ial campaigning, expertise in governing in the obama white house. Thank you very much for joining us again tonight. 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President biden has arrived back from his first foreign trip and has landed in the middle of washingtons moment of truth about what is really possible for the biden agenda in congress. 68 of americans support the Biden Infrastructure Bill but it seems at the moment less than 50 of the senate supports the Biden Approach as of tonight. Senate democrats met with Chuck Schumer today to discuss their bipartisan compromise on infrastructure. Chuck schumer and Bernie Sanders are preparing a version of the Infrastructure Bill that could be done with democrats only in the budget reconciliation process. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on available legislative time on the senate floor. With the senate scheduled to be in its Summer Recess for the month of august. Joining us is eugene robinson, Associate Editor and pulitzer prizewinning columnist for the washington post. Melissa kamar, msnbc contributor. Gene, you know august is coming as everyone in washington does. The lines get short are for anything you might be standing in line for because congress has departed. These days are ticking down. And of course when we say moment of truth in washington what we mean is season of truth. You know, maybe four to six weeks here where we figure out whats really happening with the biden agenda. Right, and when we say season of truth, when we say four to six weeks, it could be it could look like nothing happens for two weeks and then everything has to happen in a day. Yes, yeah. Or a half day or whatever, thats the way things work. And so thats what buckle your seat belts, thats what its going to be like. Yet well see. Well see if theres a way forward for any sort of Infrastructure Bill or piece of an Infrastructure Bill that gets republican support. Well see if reconciliation, talking about reconciliation for whats left over after that or for the whole package. Frankly, we dont know. I am skeptical that there are 10 republican votes for anything. But well see. Yeah, maria teresa, we have a complexity here weve never seen before, especially on the Infrastructure Bill, which is we are we, some democrats, working on a bipartisan version of this which would go through with 60 votes which infrastructure has always needed. Then Bernie Sanders who has to do the Budget Solution that would start the reconciliation process on the Budget Committee working with Chuck Schumer on a 50vote version of this that could be done with democrats only. And weve never seen them, the democrats, in control of the senate, tracking two different bills, two different Infrastructure Bills at the same time, on two different tracks. At some point they have to pick a track. Well, and the challenge is that these are so its such a massive bill. Yeah. Were talking about trillions, right . Its not small. And thats i think thats the challenge is that, how are you going to be able to satisfy the whole breadth of the party . What Bernie Sanders wants to ensure is that it includes in the Infrastructure Bill a lot of this Human Capital piece were talking about of how do you actually make sure that the American People are scaffold as we scaffold our bridges . How do we ensure theres Climate Change and Climate Justice in infrastructure . Pieces of the legislation the republicans have already flagged theyre simply not interested in. You have a few democrats who have said theyre not interested in. So it will be interesting to see how the president weighs in on the final bill. At the end of the day, its going to be his call. Is he going to scaffold Human Infrastructure as he claimed he wanted to do . Is he going to really make a huge bet on Climate Change . Lets listen to what alexandria ocasiocortez said about the possible compromises here. I think our number one priority and what democrats should prioritize is not process and how, but are we passing the deal that helps working people the most . Are we passing the deal that makes the most jobs . Are we passing a deal that brings down the most Climate Emissions . Are we passing a deal that raises wages and improves infrastructure for the next generation . If a bipartisan deal sucks up trillions of dollars in bridges to nowhere because it makes people feel good, then thats going to be a huge concern. Gene robinson, so there is another side of what joe manchins working on and what the socalled moderate democrats are working on in the senate. Exactly. And President Biden and Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders have to work with that side too. You know, whatever can come through, you know, bipartisan support means youve got to have the democrats on board and in both the house and the senate. Youve got to have all the democrats on board or you dont get it through without republican help. And so its a real tightrope that has to be walked. On the Infrastructure Bill, infrastructure is something that you and i recall being universally popular. It allows congress to shower the folks back home with goodies. Yeah, it was always bipartisan. Maria teresa, you have joe manchin now being apparently driven into the arms of Chuck Schumer by Mitch Mcconnell. Who every day finds a new extremist, unreasonable thing to say about zero chance of getting republican votes that gives joe manchin nowhere to go except with his democrats. Well, he had a chance Mitch Mcconnell had a chance to secure manchin had he allowed his party to vote for the insurrection, for the commission to actually investigate the january 6th insurrection. He decided no. He decided that he was going to completely take his marbles and go home. And manchin could not believe that someone would not want to investigate the individuals that wanted to hurt our democracy. And so as a result, manchin, we now have manchin at the table saying, you know what, we do need to do some sort of Voting Rights act. Lets sit down, lets roll up our sleeves, and lets come to the negotiating table. I have to share with you, we do a lot of work on Voting Rights. This is a huge deal that we now have a pathway for conversation to modernize our Election System for the 21st century. Maria teresa, gene robinson, thank you both for joining our discussion tonight. Coming up, fighting for Voting Rights 60 years ago could get you killed in this country, and it did get medgar evers killed and Martin Luther king killed and it got their dear friend and favorite comedian dick gregory arrested over 100 times. The new showtime documentary The One And Only dick gregory tells the Story Of A Man im proud to say was a hero of mine and appeared on this program before his death in 2017. The one and only dick gregory is next. Snacks that taste great, and come straight from the earth. 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Was fighting for Voting Rights in this country, he often had his favorite comedian by his side. Dick gregory was with dr. King when he gave his I Have A Dream speech at the March On Washington in 1963. Id like to say thank you very much, and its a pleasure being here. And nice being out of jail. [ laughter ] and im very confused this year because i never thought id see the day i would give out more fingerprints than autographs [ laughter ] dick gregory was the hottest, edgiest comedian of the early 1960s. Dick gregory was one of the greatest political comedians to ever live. The sacrifices he made are necessarily required of every artist. They are very special people. Every few generations were blessed with that are willing to do that. You see these people, you should give them your love and respect, protect them to whatever extent you can, and try to recognize that theyre doing something very difficult for the benefit of all of us. He set a very high bar. The new documentary The One And Only dick gregory is filled with awe expressed by the greatest comedians of our time. Chris rock, dave chappelle, wanda sykes, kevin hart, and many others. It is filled with the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the struggle for Voting Rights in did country. We have seen many entertainers lend their voices and their time and their money to Social Justice crusades, but we have seen only one completely give up Show Business and dedicate himself to the movement. That is what dick gregory did after his dear friend medgar evers was assassinated in his driveway in jackson, mississippi, when he arrived home one night. Dick gregory never worried about money, but he knew what the loss of Show Business income would mean to his growing family, and so he turned as he always did in moments of doubt to his wife, lillian. I called up lia and i said, honey, are you willing to eat in a tent, go back to where we were, for right . And she said yes. She told me so many other times that the true test of a rich man is giving up all his wealth, and see how much hes worth. You will see ow much dick gregory is worth in the beautiful and moving documentary The One And Only dick gregory which will premiere on showtime appropriately on the 4th of july. Joining us is andre gaines, the director of The One And Only dick gregory. Andre, i just want to say, thank you. This is a film and im i want to thank you for all of the kids who were too young to have seen Dick Gregorys work and to have known his work and must have been a joy and filled with tragedy and agony putting this film together because it covers so much ground from this great comedy stuff to the assassination of medgar evers and so much more. Yeah. It was incredibly challenging. I think i first of all want to say thank you to you. You have been an incredible supporter of the project for quite sometime and it was a joy to see how many people dick gregory inspired. It was a challenging story. This was a guy who was part of every major american event since basically 1959 when he first came and to the scene until the time of his death in 2017. He still remains as the unique entertainer that sacrificed everything in order to fight for the Civil Rights Movement and liberation. It is an incredible story why he was an incredible human being. I was lucky enough to know him, to know his family. And just all of the beauty that he had around him. There was moments of controversy. Moments of tragedy. But its one of these few that everyone has something great to say about and they were all so willing to come into the film and actually speak about that. I knew dick gregory and read his books and i did everything publicly available and learned so much in every minute of this film that i did not know about dick gregory. A thing i love seeing is the way the great stars of today see him and see him in the history of their business. Yeah. It is true. Theres so many moments we couldnt put in it movie that the entertainers, so many people he touched in the business that we didnt realize. Youre not the only perhap to say that. Theres so many people that screened the movie or maybe seen versions before we sold it to showtime that said we thought him knew him and his kids said this. They knew the father was a father to the world or a father to the world, also, and traveling a lot and so many elements of his life that even his own family didnt get to see that were able to present in the film. Theres so much detail about the way j. Edgar hoover sent the fbi after him and joked about vietnam was just extraordinary as everything he did. Andre, the film is The One And Only dick gregory. Thank you for making this movie. Premiers 9 00 p. M. Eastern on showtime on july fourth. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. Tonights last word goes to the 94yearold woman called the grandmother of juneteenth. 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As you begin the conversations that acknowledge the affects of the past sins of slavery on the present human condition, we can then accept that those same sins contribute to the systemic race inch we see and experience every day. Opal lee gets tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Good evening once again. Day 149 of the biden administration. The president now back on u. S. Soil is now turning his attention back to his towering list of domestic priorities why crippled by the math President Biden aiming for bipartisan support for at least some of his proposal still. Today as he signed Legislation Making Juneteenth A federal holiday. He invoked that very sentiment. Im especially pleased that we showed the nation that we can come together at democrats and republicans to commemorate this day with an overwhelming