unconstitutional efforts in our view, unconstitutional efforts on the part of the republicans to stack the election and subvert the outcome. we have begun to organize in ways that we didn t before. the communities beyond the civil rights community to make the case to the rest of the american people what s about to happen. what will happen if in fact these things move forward. if i had talked to you, not you, if i had talked to the public about the whole idea of subversion of elections by deciding who the electors are after the fact, i think people would have looked at me like, whoa, i taught constitutional law for 20 years. three credit course, separation of powers on saturday mornings when i was a senator, and i never thought we d get into a place where, where we were talking about being able to actually, what they tried to do this last time out, send different electors to the state
how do you plan to proceed? why are you such an optimist? i don t overpromise, but i probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen. the fact of the matter is that we are in a situation where we have made enormous progress you mentioned the number of deaths from covid. well, it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything is changing. it s getting better. look, i didn t overpromise. but i think if you take a look at what we have been able to do, you would have to acknowledge, we have made enormous progress. but one of the things that i think is something that one thing i hadn t been able to do so far is get my republican friends to get into the game of making things better in this country. for example, i was reading the other day i wrote a quote down so i don t misquote him. a quote from senator sue knew
you either voted on the side, didn t make you a george wallace or bull connor or did not vote for the voting rights act back then, you were voting with those who agreed with connor. and so i think mitch did a real good job of making it sound like i was attacking them. if you ll notice, i haven t attacked anybody publicly. any senator. any congressman. publicly. and my disagreements with them have been communicated privately or in person with them. my desire is still, look. i underestimated one very important thing. i never thought like the
excuse me, governor sue nun you, when he decided he wasn t going to run for the senate in new hampshire. here s what he said, quote, they were all for the most part content with the speed at which they weren t doing anything. it was very clear that we just had to hold the line for two years. okay, so i m just going to be a roadblock for the next two years? that s not what i do, sununu said. he goes on to say it bothers me that they were okay with that. then he goes on to say, okay, so we are not going to get stuff done if we win the white house back, if we win the white house back. why didn t we do anything in 2017, and 18? and then he said, how do republicans expect to answer the challenge? he said crickets, yeah, crickets. he had no answer. i did not anticipate that there
three months ago about people between the ages of 7 and 12. well, they finally, they ve got to the point where they felt secure in the number of tests they had done and the tests they had run that it was safe. so it will come. it will come, but i m not a scientist. i can t tell you when, but it is really very important that we get that next piece. one more follow up on build back better. when you said it s likely going to be broken up into chunks, you mentioned the climate pieces seemed to have broad support. you mentioned manchin as a supporter of early childcare. you left out the child tax credit and i wonder if it s fair to read between the lines and assume that s a piece given senator manchin s opposition to it is the extension is likely one of those components that may have to wait. there s two really big components that i feel strongly about that i m not sure i can get in the package. one is the childcare tax credit. the other is help for cost of community colleges.