but that only requires a majority vote. right. lawrence, i think that is right. that certainly is the way president biden sounded on friday. i went down to my hometown of orangeburg, south carolina, where i gave a speech at a graduation ceremony of south carolina state university. and he was very strong on voting rights. that was a major theme of his speech. and he sounded very serious to me and ready to move on it. let me also bring in that last point that former senator kerrey was making in the context of the budget bills. you make the same point in the context of voting rights. they are affecting republicans. the whole reason we re talking about the filibuster bill is there are 50 republicans not willing to even consider voting rights protections that they
constituents as well. but for them it s a matter of principle. they want to keep these people from participating fully in texas democracy and american democracy, and that s why they re going all the way forward with this. there s another factor here of course, which is that abbott has stayed in trump s good graces and the more he pushes this election bill the more he stays in trump s good graces, which of course is relevant to a potential primary challenge. adam serwer, that was really great. thanks so much for your time tonight. don t go anywhere. we ve got senator chris murphy on the president s big speech. what s next for the filibuster as his colleagues race to pass the filibuster bill. we ll talk about that and much more after this. about that andh more after this.
mitch mcconnell. let the republicans pass it and we ll put an end to it if you can get rid of the filibuster bill. heather: it is deadline day for the department of justice. paul ryan threatening to hold rod rosenstein in contempt of congress if the d.o.j. doesn t hand over documents related to the russia and clinton email probe. so will the department comply? alan dershowitz is in studio. bill: we ll remember the life and legacy and the brilliance of our friend, charl krauthammer throughout the day. it s my job to call a folly a folly. you are betraying your whole life if you don t say what you think. and you don t say it honestly and bluntly. it s just a burst pipe, i could fix it. (laugh) no. with claim rateguard your rates won t go up just beacuase of a claim. i totally could ve. (wife) nope! switching to allstate is worth it.
push it through. kill the filibuster bill. definitely. i spoke to an educator this week who talked about how the anxiety level among parents is just off the chart. part of his point was, that has to be dialed back. people have to get right with the fact that you live in a society that protects freedoms to the point it makes us more vulnerable in some ways, and some things you just cannot prevent. look, i go back to this central point, how many people have died in terror attacks in the last 12 years in america, 9/11 was nominalist. and we ve had many attempts most of the attempts fail. most of the terrorists are bad at terrorism and even when they succeed the casualty count is fairly minimal. i m not down playing the tragedy of boston. but, really, more to use the sta tis particular, more children die in backyard swimming pool accidents than die in had terrorism and so, yes, there s a certain point we have to simply
when public sentiment wanted a lot of things done to deal with industrialization and the problem of the slums, the senate was impossible it to move because it was millionaires in there. they finally realized they have to have direct election of senators. they used to be elected by the state legislators and were susceptible to special interest. maybe that s the problem given the 60 votes needed, given who they listen to, the power of special interest, public sent is imt cannot pen trade. we ve seen it for the last decade. it s not just the senate, the congress. majority leader harry reid follow the president? it s not working there. but in those states in which the senators vote d against the background checks, it s not even close to 90% in terms of wanting it. it s probably down in single digits in montana and arkansas and alaska and north dakota, the states that block it are democrats, so you have to take that into consideration. newtown, 90% move it. small, discreet parts of a