bigger than lbj, he s trying to have an fdr moments. but he can have an fdr moments with infrastructure, and an lbj moment with voting rights. and that s what we want the president to do. deliver on his promise. it s become a partisan issue, and that is what senator joe manchin of west virginia is using, as his opposition, the reason for his opposition. he s calling it partisan voting registration, because it has no republican support. i believe of our democracy, and for that reason, i will vote against the for the people act. it s a circular argument. it s partisan because republicans won t support it. here s the thing, senator manchin actually put forward the freedom to vote act, which is an updated version of the for the people act. some key provisions that we hoped are in, there are no longer in, there but the freedom to vote act was actually put forward and approved by senator manchin. he is actually asking to have
if she retains her seat. little remembered fact, liz cheney, actually the cheney family has some roots in texas where her father in between being defense secretary and vice president ran halliburton, big defense contractor headquartered in texas. and remember, he had to change his voting registration from texas to wyoming to file for vice president because of the texas rule in the electoral college. you know the story. anyway. that s right. he is kind of a texas guy as well as wyoming guy. a lot of old friends in texas meeting liz cheney. exactly. thank you both. great talking to you. coming up, unanswered questions about the confirmation that a body found in wyoming is gabby petito. now they have to find out what is the cause of death. they believe it is homicide. now the search for her missing fiance is more important. a live report on the manhunt.
florida, places like georgia. here this morning it s in austin, texas. this morning we re going to see thousands of people show up. we re going to hear from beto o rourke and bishop william barber and country legend willie nelson lending his voice to the cause. it feels like momentum is shifting in their direction. they feel like they have a leg up, when democrats come back, things will be different. our hill team is reporting that it s going to be a little bit of a scaled down approach if they have legislation come out of all of this. it s going to be focused voting access, same-day voting and voting registration. as you mentioned, guys, it s been hot out here, hot for the past 19 days. there are immediate
more counties to have weekend voting. we go from a requirement that the counties with 100,000 population have weekend early voting during our 13 days of early voting to every county can more than 55,000 voters so look, this is all about national politics and about trying to basically bust up the rules in texas and for no good reason at all. the kind of language these people are using, voter suppression and jim crow and racism and neil: i don t know if this is the case in texas but a dozen plus states that have changed voting registration and other related issues, how much of that cynically is in response to the pressure from donald trump that the last election was rigged? i m not saying they re doing his bidding, but they are trying to keep him satisfied. what do you think of that? look, i think that is part of
for you again because i think it is relevant and you need to hear it as often as possible. this is dr. martin luther king junior back in 1963. i think the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people voting and suddenly they wouldn t want the majority of people to vote because they know they do not represent the majority of the american people. so the filibuster has been used again and again to kill civil rights and voting registration. former president barack obama speaking at the funeral of john lewis calling it a relics of jim crow. this takes eliminating the