we re not asking for the bestowal of a right. it s the preservation of a right, that is the right of citizenship. and it s that fundamental. texas democrats have had several meetings with members of congress this week, explaining just how dangerous the texas bill s restrictions are to democracy. including a provision that would have empowered judges to toss out an election without evidence of widespread fraud, nicknamed the trump amendment for the baseless claims the 2020 election was stolen. one of the meetings texas democrats arranged today was a last-minute, hastily arranged discussion with senator joe manchin, which lasted for nearly an hour, after he released a list of changes he would like to make to the for the people act so he would support it.
we re gonna get to that and big joe manchin breaking news about his softening on the so-called filibuster rule. and he s actually embracing an idea that two of our guests have proposed in changing that rule, so that s going to be great and he had a meeting with the democrats from texas who come from washington this week to lobby him on the voting rights bill, we re gonna have one of the people in that meeting. but here is what you must, and this is big, donald trump finally conceded tonight. he delivered the concession speech, he did. i m not making this up to sean hannity, on that hour and here is the way it went. because it s not the traditional form, sean hannity said to him, more than once, began questions with, if you were still president and donald trump did not correct, he went
go ahead i ll, quickly. this is going to be on every issue. right now they can filibuster with one person saying i object, and that is it and then we have to come up with 60. the splits the burden on them and they re not gonna do this for every damn vote. they actually had a cultural vote today that got over 80 votes on a deputy secretary. they actually need to invoke culture on that, that kind of thing would disappear. senator al franken and norman ornstein thank you very much for joining us, we really appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. coming up joe manchin held a surprise meeting with some texas democrats today and we will get a report from the room where that happened, next. happened, next. all by yourself. - oh. - what? rain. cancel and stay? done. go with us and get millions of felixble booking options.
filibuster, but what norm and i have proposed is a modification, as you outlined that instead of requiring 60 votes to end a filibuster, you would require 41 from the minority to go to the floor and vote to sustain the filibuster and then they would have to hold the floor and actually debate the issue. that s one of the options that joe outlined today. and that s sort of that s exactly what norm and i have proposed. and norm, you have been discussing this for a while. what do you make of where senator manchin is, as of tonight? i m very encouraged on a couple of fronts. recall that manchin had also been the only democrat who refused to endorse and co-sponsor the for the people
meeting and i want to thank him for that. i want to thank congressman al greene and congresswoman garcia who helped me set up this meeting. of course, to my former colleagues senator, senator jose menendez, the chair of the and the vice chair of the elections committee, jessica gonzales. let me tell you, what they did was present the reality of what we are facing here in texas, as the vice president said were not active asking for something you, we re just saying protect our fundamental right to vote it. and senator joe manchin, i found out that he was also a secretary state in west virginia. so he knows the fundamental right to vote and i think he was very straightforward on what he could work on and what he might have concerns.