republicans so that this is not just a responsibility that falls on democrats to make those changes and then i think that s the broad every voting rights questions of john lewis that manchin and sinema are pressured to change the rules on but i think the democrats needs to take a two-pronged effort here and attack and lean on the republicans who are already on the record to this. they cannot be allowed to get out of this election year and not have to vote on that again. thank you both, guys. appreciate it. more now on the deadly fire in the bronx. 19 people are dead. in an apartment building fire. nine of those killed are children. also more than 60 people joired. the fire department said it
long, and biden was one of the people who had faith that it could be restored. and his leadership should be given credit for doing that. frankly, it s also a victory for a lot of moderate republican senators senators who are sick and tired of being held to donald trump. and this was a responsible action on their part that s in the best interest of the country from their point of view. yeah, 19 republican senators joined all 50 democratic senators. they rejected the threats coming from trump, and they voted in favor of this bipartisan compromise infrastructure legislation. the bills, though, still face an uphill battle. is it wishful thinking to expect this type of repeat on this type of bipartisanship on other key issues? a lot depends on how the public responds. if the public sort of notices and really rallies behind it, there will be more incentive to move a little more to the center, to take care of things like some of the voting rights
it really doesn t care if it is a republican, a democrat or somebody else. what it cares about is that our elections are fair elections and that they are free elections. and donald trump s conduct goes to the heart of that. what he was trying to do was to ensure that our election was anything but a fair and free election. and that is what congress needs to be focused on. professor karlan said i ve been before this committee before because i ve defended this committee in voting rights questions. i mean, we get farther and farther away from the core of this sometimes because we re staring at every little twist and turn. but at its core, it is about protecting american elections no matter who is president and no matter which side the foreign interference is on. i remember marco rubio at the time that the dnc emails were stolen said we shouldn t use this because next time it will be us, next time we ll be
moment. to rise above the pain and bring the nation to a higher moral place really shamed a lot of people into saying we got to do something here. had they acted in another way, i think it would have been us against them. i think they shamed the country by doing a king moment of taking it to a higher ground. i have a question. this is not to diminish the significance of the flag coming down which obviously has been something years and years in the making boycotts a lot of political struggle. i m wondering from your vantage point if you re worried a little bit this very symbolic but important gesture will mask what are greater public policy fights that you and the rest of the african-american community want to see, voting rights health care things that those people in south carolina struggled for that will probably be swept under the rug after this debate over the flag is over. no i m not a little worried. i m very worried. when you look at the fact that we have serious voting right