vice president of the united states and kamala harris is charged with passing voting rights and the president, up until last night, was silent on the issue of the filibuster shows the disconnect. we have to slim -- i want to eliminate the filibuster. the 44th president of the united states called it a relic of a racist past. if we can't get rid of it, we at least have to narrow it. the civil rights issue of our time is voting rights. without narrowing the filibuster, we will never pass it. . >> he is saying not now, john, but maybe in the future. i just wonder if that is enough for bakari and others who are looking and saying that really isn't anything we can take away. . >> look, there's really no alternative to it. when you're president of the united states, you have to prioritize and sequence the things you want to do. joe biden could not change the filibuster right now if he wanted to. but what he wants to do, as he