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Transcripts for MSNBC The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart 20210606 15:07:00

actually we should come together for a bill that is not a democratic bill, not a republican bill, it s bills about the american worker and the american people. so then that sounds like these negotiations the deadline isn t this week. the deadline there is no deadline anymore? well, i think there s a fluid conversation and i think if we put deadlines there, and we start talking about deadlines, then there s lines drawn in the sand. i think we ll see what happens tomorrow. it s a meeting in a timely approach. we ll see tomorrow with the meeting and the senator and on the conversations that we re having today and tomorrow. all right. interesting. secretary of labor, marty walsh, thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. thank you. and joining me now is congresswoman davis of kansas. author of sharice s big voice. thank you for coming to the sunday show. your reaction to secretary walsh

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart 20210606 14:20:00

i will go further and say we need to pass hr-4, the restore the voting act. the john lewis act. i want you to look around the country including in texas where these republican control legislatures are trying to get these anti-voting bill passed and trying to get them passed before we can get hr-4 passed because they know these can stay the law indefinitely. while we re sitting around having the discussions about whether or not we re going to get rid of the filibuster or curtail it, mitch mcconnell doing everything he can to get rid of african-american voters, hispanic voters. he is doing everything to get rid of early voting centers. he is doing everything he can to make sure that our voices are not heard on capitol hill and state legislatures around the

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart 20210606 15:16:15

Transcripts for MSNBC The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart 20210606 15:16:15
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Transcripts for MSNBC The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart 20210606 15:17:00

federal gay rights bill. joining me now is her daughter, and congressman david sis lee knee of rhode island who is the cochair of lgbt equality caucus. amy is one of 11 members of congress. thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. my pleasure. so, liz, it s been a long time since i ve seen you. my new york days. talk about what it means to you now after all these years to have the senate and, therefore, the u.s. congress be this close to making turning into law a piece of legislation your mother first introduced. thank you for having me. i couldn t be more excited about the possibility it ll finally happen. 47 years after mom introduced the bill in 1974, as you know, it s way, way overdue.

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart 20210606 15:22:00

democracy. it ought not stand where progress on civil rights but we re working now to get as many votes in the senate as we can in the event that the senate proceeds out of their current roles. as i said in the intro, as you said in the first answer, it s been 47 years since your mother first introduced the bill. give what the congressman was talking about, are you optimistic that the bill, the equality act will, indeed, become the law of the land? yes, i am totally. i am totally, john than. my first job out of law school actually was to work in the office of civil rights enforcing anti-discrimination work bills and title 9, title 6, et. cetera. it was in 1978. i believe based on the fact that all of the action that is happened in the house and the

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