while making action on the thing they have said is the underpinning of everything else they re working on which is voting rights. right before we left, i had a conversation with senator warnock who has been at the center of the voting rights conversation. he has been trying to pressure his colleagues, specifically manchin and cinema who are reticent to change the rules in order to go forward. the reality is if you look at the state of play on voting rights, democrats are on board with how they want to move forward. you have all 50 democrats agreeing on the path forward for voting rights. but they cannot have any republicans on their side. there s no appetite for this from the other side of this. if you can t get to 60 votes, you can t do it unless you change the rules and manchin and sinema aren t there right now. one of the things the democrats did is in a caucus meeting they presented one ways to make a carveout on voting rights. sources in the room told us this is one of the first t
things they always want which is getting to appoint judges as quickly as possible and tax cuts. and representative clyburn now, pleading with the president, who, of course, as everybody knows, clyburn made the biggest difference in president biden s campaign, pleading with him to at least push a carveout on voting rights and also with joe manchin. my hope is that in the least this is something that s going to get done. we know that there s significant push back to actually doing away with the filibuster, i think that would actually be best. because it s not only a problem when you talk about voting rights but a number of other issues that i think would be good for the american people if congress could actually get some things done. but a carve out or a push on the talking filibuster as the president has already said he supports. the problem is we haven t seen
take bipartisanship seriously, in a senate that is, essentially, a bastion of minority rule, the only way there might be to get anything done will be to blow up the filibuster. let s just be honest. let s just be honest, and tell the truth about what is happening in this country. don t hide behind the fill bubu filibuster. say what you got to say, brothers and sister. then say, i don t want to do it. i don t want to do this because i think that black and brown people s votes should be restricted in the future to come in america. just say it. don t hide behind the filibuster. two democrats, senator joe manchin, kyrsten sinema, are standing in the way of that. cnn s manu raju, asking manchin tonight, if he would agree to a carveout on voting rights. spoiler alert. he won t. you re also just in the center of so many issues in washington. one of in in in one