hour, qanon's, and all that other stuff. ultimately has come to take down our democracy. when we see a vote like this today, not a vote against a bill, but a vote against talking about a bill, in what is supposed to be the greatest deliberative body in the world, the united states senate, then we know our democracy has lost its way. >> there has been criticism from a lot of corners, that the white house and the president particularly has not been more energetically and publicly pushing on this. i want to read you a quote that was first reported by peter nikolas in the atlantic, and you can give me your response. when i mentioned the alarm coming from the activists the white house -- every constituency has their issue if you ask immigration folks they'll tell you the issue of their life or death issue too.