the fda quickly slapped them down. that s not approved by the fda. we don t know that the problem is it s not working. on the other hand, if you talk to people who have taken the drug like yourself, people report after one pill, they are feeling better, after two they are like normal. it does seem to be when it works, pretty amazing. yeah, indeed. the head of the world health organization spoke to the white house covid sul it this morning calling for commitment for global vaccination and testing in poorer nations. congress stripped the foreign covid aid from the bill. the president is more or less gone along with that in what was sent up. isn t the united states falling short right now? yeah, it is. this is not investing now. we are going to reap the problems in the future because of it. we know that delta came from india. omicron originated in south africa.
cause. there are internal rules. i m not totally sure. to the extent that the determination is made that the testimony is critical, i would not be adverse if i were running the committee to issue a subpoena and ask for some expedited review in the courts. is there anything that can be done about 2013, the shelby decision on voting rights? there was a lot that could be done. we had the ability in this congress to put in place the john lewis advancement act, which would have not only fixed the problems of the shelby county decision but would have expanded the scope of the voting rights act to cover the nation as a whole instead of just the old states in the confederacy. we had in the bill that was hr-1, the ability to have things as we describe in the book, same-day registration, automatic registration. democrats have had control of all three branchs. has the president done enough? the president has certainly done enough.
orphaned. we must honor those we have lost by doing everything we can to prevent as many deaths as possible. we start with the fight for abortion rights. joining me now from capitol hill ali vitali and peter alexander. ali, to you. why didn t senate democrats just take up a more narrow bill that senators collins and murkowski could have gotten behind and perhaps senator manchin? that was one of the questions at the start of the push for democrats was how they wanted this bill to fail. no matter what, they weren t going to get 60 votes to actually overcome a filibuster on this. the way in which the bill failed would have been bipartisan in the positive direction had they gone with a bill that was narrower in focus and, frankly, more conservative in ethos in the protections it gave, specifically, a bill pushed by collins and murkowski, that they
are talking with democrats at this point about but at the same time democratic leadership in the senate said they didn t want to make this first vote about that because they wanted it to be meaningful and because they wanted to have that stark contrast going into the midterms. to them, this was a way to energize the democratic base ahead of november. at the same time, i also think that the thinking around if a more conservative bill had come up, would the vote have been different in some meaningful way? there s no guarantee that all 50 democrats would have stayed behind any type of abortion protection. in fact, several democratic senators who i talked to say that they didn t feel that murkowski and collins went far enough. they probably wouldn t have supported that. it s not necessarily a given that the number there would have been higher. i just asked speaker nancy pelosi about this, what democrats have left to do. the options are slim. what she said is that in terms of the murkowski/
the only way you achieve president trump s goals contract with the voter covering all, and caring for those with pre-existing conditions and lowering premiums are in the principles of the cassidy/collins bill. i will also point out the house bill moved towards our principles. not all the way there, but towards our principles of giving states mora tonomy. we think that movement continues. senator, before i let you go very quickly one senator telling me they want language on the floor before recess. does that timeline seem realistic to you? if we get democratic support right now. democrats are sitting on their hands. you re just so passive on health care. if we get democrats engaged, they should be engaged and millions in their states are affected by this. we could move things fast. bill cassidy, thank you for being with us and for that perspective. we are waunge tching, giving hi statement in the senate