party is failing to meet the moment in the severity of this crisis? well, thank you for having me, and absolutely. there s no question that the president and democrats are failing to meet the moment, particularly as it relates to the power that was given to them by black voters. black voters are the reason, a major reason, why democrats have majorities in the senate, in the house, and why democrats are in the white house, and, you know when we were on the campaign trail in 2020, the president and democrats were telling black communities that, you know, if we stood up and pushed them forward, that we would get a whole agenda of issues that we cared about. from voting rights to health care to infrastructure, relief from covid-19, and actually what we re seeing is that all of these things that were on the agenda, all of these things that got black voters to the polls,
ayman. enjoy the rest of your evening, alicia, and good evening everyone and welcome to ayman. republicans continue to block any movement on voting rights. so will democrats finally decide to end the ffilibuster? plus it s a democratic senator krysten sinema blocking president biden s agenda. we ll speak to a former adviser who now calls her an obstacle to progress, and in spite of all that, a deal may be just around the corner. democrats expecting a vote on both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the build back better bill just in time for some key governor races in virginia and new jersey. an update on those for you. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. all right. so the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol took a major step this week. on thursday the house voted to
president biden. how long can we afford to wait in this country? right now it s a simple choice for those in power. the filibuster or american democracy? it s that simple. joining me now to discuss this, ann moore and people who know what they re talking about, the principal of the black of the future action fund and co-founder of the black lives matter movement and chris haines, professor of political science and national security at the university of new haven. great to you have both with us. alecia and start with this headline from the washington post. in part it reads no issue is more important than voting rights, goes on to say, voting rights are not just one more item of fixed ambitious presidential agenda, equal access to voting and state legislators across the country are targeting democratic constituencies putting the same posse agenda the president is pursuing in jeopardy come next election. do you think the democratic