keeps running into the same opposition, and some of that is coming from within his own party. yes, he has a majority, but it is extremely narrow, and he does not have the full democratic majority in the senate on his side to pass many of his priorities, so how s he going to get through that. as you say, on voting rights in particular, i do think there was some political imperative for biden to show this was a priority, to show that he was going to try to take some action even if he knew it wasn t going to pass, but it didn t pass. so now what is the next step. they are caught in a little bit of a bind right now. they re always going to have this blockade unless biden can find a way to change the names of two very important democratic senators, and right now i think there s very little indication that he s going to be able to do that. shannon: so they didn t get these voting change bills through. a number of democrats have talked about they now have worries about the legitimacy of the n
opposition, and some of that is coming from within his own party. yes, he has a majority, but it is extremely narrow, and he does not have the full democratic majority in the senate on his side to pass many of his priorities, so how s he going to get through that. as you say, on voting rights in particular, i do think there was some political imperative for biden to show this was a priority, to show that he was going to try to take some action even if he knew it wasn t going to pass, but it didn t pass. so now what is the next step. they are caught in a little bit of a bind right now. they re always going to have this blockade unless biden can find a way to change the names of two very important democratic senators, and right now i think there s very little indication that he s going to be able to do that. shannon: so they didn t get these voting change bills through. a number of democrats have talked about they now have worries about the legitimacy of the next round of elections. the
speaker pelosi may not have held the vote on the roads and bridges bill today because it wasn t going to pass, but she has committed to holding that vote sometime this week. let me just say we re going to pass the bill this week, but you know i ll never bring a bill to the floor that doesn t have the votes. oh, we know. oh, we know. so how is this going to work, especially because that s just one part of what congress has to get done this week. i mean, just in the next 72 hours or so, speaker pelosi says the house is going to vote on that small bipartisan roads and bridges plan on thursday. according on to the house progressive caucus, that bill is not going to pass without the rest of president biden s agenda, which would mean that much larger bill that contains that child care, and education and climate stuff, that would have to be hammered out with the senate and voted on and passed by all 50 democrats in the
fascinating place as the center of the news universe this week speaker pelosi may not have held the vote on the roads and bridges bill today because it wasn t going to pass, but she has committed to holding that vote sometime this week. let me just say we re going to pass the bill this week, but you know i ll never bring a bill to the floor that doesn t have the votes. oh, we know oh, we know. so how is this going to work, especially because that s just one part of what congress has to get done this week just in the next 72 hours or so speaker pelosi says the house is going to vote on that small bipartisan roads and bridges plan on thursday, according to the house progressive caucus, that bill is not going to pass without the rest of president biden s agenda, which would mean that much larger bill that contains that child care, and education and climate stuff. that would have to be hammered out with the senate, and voted on and passed by all 50 democrats in the senate chamber, and
0 us this hour, the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi. she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019. but this is not her first rodeo. this is her but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker s job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president. democrats did great in the midterms in 2006. pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president. just a huge history-making deal. so she s always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she s just technically quite good at it. she is specifically unquestionably good at