they helped rack up over these last years. all important points, libby casey, cornell belcher, thanks to both of you. i want to tell people what we have coming up. there are reports that trump aides will defy probe subpoenas at donald trump s direction. neil is going to get into it, including why this could risk some going to jail. matt gaetz speaking out along with his friendship with a republican convicted of sex trafficking, why is gaetz speaking out. we have that update later in the hour. also a new approach to addressing vaccine hesitancy from an unlikely source that includes some laughter which we always welcome. we have that later this hour as well. stay with us, you re watching the beat with ari melber. bear
away with the filibuster around this, it s going to be hard to tell a lot of americans, especially americans of color who put them in power that i m not going to do it to protect your franchise. appreciate your point there, and you bringing that up, and it really does speak to some of the problems in the way the government works, and again, we re just about about whether there s an up or down vote. everyone in the country voted in 2020. they put in their new representatives. georgia went blue from red, and so whether it s voting rights or these other issues, the question is whether there s going to be a vote. if, libby, there is a vote in a democracy and people don t vote to pass the voting rights bill, fine. i m not saying where it all lands, the notion that this minority can choke hold the dealt to voting rights to other issues, it does make you question whether we re living in that democracy or not. senator bernie sanders said some really interesting stuff today. i want to get to
imagine this scenario. imagine they have to go home in the end and they couldn t in fact move on build back better or infrastructure, all the things you know a state like west virginia wants and needs and all of these things that the middle class families of arizona want and need, and then you could point to them and say, you know what, senator sinema, none of that happened because of you. right. that s an awful lot of smoke. i have to think, ari, that s more smoke than either one of those two can put up with. at this point, cornell, i don t know what we ve talked more about tonight, the 21 savage view of smoke, the confrontation or libby casey s mom who s clearly interested in civics and news. at this point, it s a toss up. i did want to show another point because again, there s been a lot happening on the senate side. senator hirono, not impressed with mitch backing down because although it does buy time, she still feels the overall problem is people who ran up the bills and won t