for another gop blockade and if so, is there no choice but to reform the filibuster? yeah, the filibuster absolutely needs reforming. and i would say particularly, alex, on this issue of voting rights. if you think back to when mitch mcconnell said that merrick garland couldn t be appointed to the supreme court because it wasn t fair to appoint him in the same year that the president was going to be leaving office, and then, of course, he turned around a few years later, after lecturing america and pointing his finger at us and lecturing on the virtues of when scotus s should be appointed and then turned around and put amy coney barrett in within 60 days. if we don t reform the filibuster, we need to do 50 votes just for this, because what s happening right now, redistricting across the country, how black and brown
emissions, and i want our audience to hear a little bit about what congressman john yarmouth told you about what this could mean. these are mostly initiatives that are designed to orient us to the future, whether it s investment in early childhood education, community college, or the climate policy investments, and we really need to think of that in this way. it s a shame that we would have to strike that from the climate policy initiatives out of the package. but we have to get 50 votes. reporter: the silver lining here is this wasn t the only climate provision in the bill and so there will still be some that will likely still make it in there, including incentives for people to buy electric vehicles through tax rebates, of course, trying to transition away from those gas-guzzling internal combustion engine vehicles. but the reality is here, alex, this couldn t come at a worse time for president biden as he s preparing in just two weeks to head to glasgow for that big