we need to follow jon lewis footsteps. we need to support the bill in his name. just a few days ago, we talked about, up in the congress and the white house, the event coming up shortly to celebrate dr. king s birthday. and americans of all stripes will praise him for the content of his character, but as dr. king s family said before, it s not enough to praise their father. they even said on this holiday, don t celebrate his birthday unless you re willing to support what he lived for and what he died for. the next few days when these bills come to a vote will mark a turning point in this nation s history. we will choose. the issue is, will we choose democracy over autocracy?
because you re defining the conversation. and i think the president is finally beginning his beginning to get his sea legs on that in this moment, and let me just give a quick shoutout to my girl, simone. welcome. it s good to have you in the family. simone, i m coming to you. this was an incredible speech by the president, showing the fire on the issue where a lot of the fire is. in his coalition. i hate when people talk about this as just a base issue. this is the coalition that sent him there, that cared about democracy, that may or may not have been a democrat but saw donald trump as undemocratic so i think the coalition has been waiting a long time for this speech but this was a fiery speech by the vice president and i want to read some of the lines that i think people will be talking about for a long time from her. this is what nick captures in his reporting, how normal it s become for state after state after state to pass voting restrictions. i ve heard some of the things
minute as joe biden said, what groups didn t show up today or who s mad at who within the democratic party and let s focus the attention where it belongs. on the 16 republicans that are hiding under their desk and allowing democracy to crumble around them. we re going to have their names. the one great journalist on this panel though was the one reporter who has the destruction of democracy at the hands of a lie and fraud as his beat. nick doesn t need me to defend him, but let me just point out that the democrats who have been upset with president biden are the ones who sent him there and a lot of them show up on this show and they re thot reporters. they re important parts of his base. they include al sharpton, who was in the audience. i wonder, nick, what you heard in the speech that sort of takes some of the air out of the balloon. that pent you have angst for lack of a better word, for the president to show this fire on this issue? well two things that really stood out the to
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about solving these problems. he ran on the idea of being a clear-headed, experienced president. the white house is saying we re trying to do this. we understand our number one job is still covid. the american people are looking and saying, okay, all of this experience means what exactly for my lived experience. add to that, of course, the economics of this. we have to remember that the economy is the thing that is driving this. our original sin of this pandemic was polarization and lies, and that is leading people not to get the vaccine. that s also leading people to die of the virus and take dewormers. now the president and white house officials tell me it really is about explaining to people that science evolves, explaining to people that challenges are part of the job. these poll numbers are really challenging for him. you know, it s interesting. i want to put up a poll of independent voters. betsy, this is moving. democrats don t move up or down. republicans don t move up or dow