it is wednesday, june 2nd. it is 5:00 a.m. in new york. good morning, everyone. president biden starting to pull off the gloves, slowly but forcefully. he is beginning to push forward on several fronts where his restraint until now has frustrated his party, racial inequity, infrastructure, arctic drilling, the remain in it mexico policy. all in just the last few days. and, of course, voting rights. sfwh at an event commemorating the 100th anniversary on a white mob massacres hundreds of residents in tulsa, biden said he is tapping kamala harris to lead the fight against republican efforts to make it harder to vote. the president vowed to fight like heck to protect voting from gop assault. this second right is under assault with incredible intensity even though i got started as a public defender and civil rights lawyer. with an intensity and aggressiveness that we have not seen in a long, long time.
well, because biden only has a majority of four votes in it the house and a tie in the senate. with two mebsmbers of the senat voting more my republican friends. but we re not giving up. you know, he doesn t say their names. he is clearly referencing the two senators who even though they ve always voted with the president on major issue passed through the senate, they re linchpins on some issues with his agenda. also they oppose nuking the filibuster. the 60 vote threshold needed for legislation to pass through the senate which means they need some republicans to sign on to legislation. biden s growing nor frustrated. you referenced that there are major issues that he is tryight infrastructure and he is facing pressure to act on the issue which is why he is vocally voicing opposition towards the two democratic senators who tend
going to stop that. and so we saw some of that yesterday. putting vice president hair nis charge of that effort to counter republicans on voting rights. and the real question is going to be not the priorities of the biden administration but whether or not he can galvanize all 50 democrats to act. it s pretty clear that on any big issues he s not going to get substantial republican support. so that s why he called out yesterday both joe manchin of west virginia and cinema of the state of arizona who have been the most reluctant democratic members to join his priorities. yeah, he called them out. people are getting so upset with him over voting rights in particular. he said, look, i don t this alone. john, at the same time, the former president telling people close to him that he expects to be reinstated as president this summer. it s all crazy. it s also just another lie. it s another lie capitalizing on support he knows he has from
they fear her more than the joe biden side and try to use a crime bill it depress the black vote. they do fear biden the most because he s the front runner. trump cares so much about polls and numbers. he obsesses over his own all the time. that s why they re afraid of biden and warren. and the lead over trump in key states. you guys have been controlling the spin room. you gave me the delaney nugget. what are you hearing about tonight s debate what s the scuttlebutt. beto is feeling very, very anxious. what do you mean by that. nervous about being on a debate stage with such a massive national audience. he is good at retail politics, standing on coffee tables and doing that sort of thing. to folks on the trail, he seems more human. i ve heard he s feeling nervous about getting on stage tonight. it s a little bit of unfamiliar territory for him. you were talking about