william chaney. we re talking about the fundamental right having our vote not diluted and not in any way impeded by what we re seeing going on in 47 states, and that s what we said to senator manchin today. and to say that the process of trying to preserve the filibuster, which we talked about today, has in itself a racist beginning that is what the filibuster has been used for, to use process over what the country is supposed to stand for, when you have the vice president of the united states preaching democracy down in mexico and central america, is, in my opinion, absurd. i think that we wanted to make it clear to him as he says we will continue talking, but we want to also talk to others in the senate, because jose williams and john lewis and others that forfeited this, we are the children or the second generation behind that and must preserve the right to vote and we re not going to back up in anyway, shape or form on that
don t think anyone changed their opinion. far more important to senator manchin than justice. joined lie reserved al sharpton, president of the national action network. derek johnson, president and ceo of the naacp both attended the meeting with senator manchin. rev, start with you. sounds like manchin walked out of that meeting, thank you very much but i m not doing anything to save democracy. your thoughts? he clearly walked out of the meeting holding his position, and we clearly walked out of the meeting holding ours. this is about saving the democracy and the right to vote that people died for to get in the first place. let us not in any way pretend that we and the black community and in other communities suffered, blacks and whites died in the south to get the right to vote for meg gur evers and
attempts to interfere with a fundamental right of the american people which is a foundation of our democracy and by the way, this is not even a bipartisan issue. from my perspective it s nonpartisan. what they are trying to do these efforts to suppress or make it more difficult to vote will impact a wide variety of people, whoever they voted for in the last election. early voting, vote by mail, drop boxes. those boxes don t have sign democrat or republican. we re going to keep pushing for what we need to do to push back and stop these efforts to suppress the vote. there s the legislation and the
work we will continue to do of uplifting the issue so we can make sure every one is aware of what is happening and that s about the bully pulpit. that s about elevating public discourse around the issue. we will and the president has announced this in terms of executive orders. part of this is the debate that s occurring around the world about the relative strength or weakness of autocracies versus democracies. one of america s strength is we can hold ourselves out in world and hopefully travel to places where we have some level of respect because we say we re a democracy and true to our
involved in? no, i wouldn t. it s because we the people need to put more pressure on congress and make them be responsible. congress got a blank check. they do exactly what they want to do by showing you they re not going to investigate what happened january 6th is saying they don t care about our democracy because donald trump don t want them to care about our democracy. until we show them how important our vote is, no t the day after election but the whole term and put pressure on congress, everybody needs to call their member of congress and say, we want this investigation. not ask them, but tell them. until these people put a little pressure on congress, congress got a blank check. nobody answer for congress.