absolutely not. this is the exact same thing that happens on infrastructure and, actually, this is a time when joe biden shines because he can work very well bringing the left faction, centrist and majority, moderate portion of my party together. this is what happened on infrastructure, and we re talking including people like joe manchin on one side and bernie sanders or aoc on the other, and this is an opportunity for the president to do that. remember, whenever you have whether it s a democrat or republican, whenever you have a very large package and a piece of legislation that has a large dollar, price tag, dollar amount attached, it s not going to end up where it started off. and i think we all know that if we ever have done a home budget for renovation or something like that. but in this case, it usually starts higher and goes down lower, they make compromises, and they re going to do that with the democrats and, hopefully, bring some republicans into the mix since the majority of
races to finish negotiations and secure a vote before the end of the month. joining us now to discuss is robbie suave and democratic strategist leslie marshall. thank you so much, both of you, for joining us. really appreciate it. my pleasure. jacqui: so, leslie, i want to go to you first. it s difficult at this point to drill down what s going to be included in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill because although we have the text as of yesterday, it is really far from its final form. but one thing that s standing out to me here is democrats are so dug in, apparently unwilling to work with each other, that the president had to get involved this week and have meetings with the moderate and progressive wing of the party. is that a sign that nobody s in charge here? [inaudible conversations] jacqui: leslie she said leslie, sorry. jacqui: go ahead, leslie. okay.
knew merrick garland was going to be in charge but when i read deeper about it i saw the correlation between what happened last week in terms of voting rights and there s only one republican that i know of supporting the voting rights act, lisa murkowski and when joe manchin got shot down, there were voter requirements endorsed by stacey abrams and republicans had no interest in making any progress there, that the doj would act and i will say there s a whole host of things in the georgia bill that i find to be problematic and most of them come back where this stemmed from. we have georgia officials top to bottom who said the election was clean. now they want to move to give state legislatures control over the election and state legislators in georgia, they are republican. griff: robbie, ten seconds left. i have to wrap it but i want to give you the last word. i don t agree all of the provisions of the new georgia certainly but i think this suit is probably doomed because
want to go to mental health evaluation, the last time she went through this it came out worse for her on the other side. christina: right, the bottom line, she wants control over what happens to her personally, professionally, i mean, just so much lack of control for this woman who is 39 year s old and successful music icon. it s interesting, jacqui. jacqui: christina, thank you so much. griff: joining us for reaction, reason senior editor robbie suave and jessica tarlov. that was shocking for any that followed britney spears, shocking testimony coming from her, jessica, i will start with you, what was your reaction to what we heard from spears and where do we go from here?
can t take out her own iud, something needs to change. that was a stunning component to her testimony, robbie, that she says she s on forced contraception, what do you think? i think it s moral scandal. i agree wholeheartedly with what jessica said and i grew up too listening to britney spears music. it could be the case that maybe it s legal and everything was done above board and in correct manner and yet it is still ethically wrong. it is wrong to have this kind of arrangement. it s eugenic, it s going back 100 years to, you know, to forcibly not sterilize but the court doing that, what greater violation of a person s liberty and autonomy could there possibly be. so it s frankly it makes me wonder how common that is, that aspect of this is for other