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And were following the early results coming in from new York Citys mayoral primary as Andrew Yang is conceding tonight, telling supporters, i am not going to be the mayor of new York City based on the numbers coming in tonight. Lets get right to our political commentator charlie dent, a former republican congressman and senior political analyst ron brownstein. Good evening, gentlemen. We have a lot to talk about. So were hearing, ron, that the House Speaker Nancy pelosi is going to appoint this select committee to investigate January 6th. This news coming just moments after republicans blocked that sweeping voting Rights Bill. On so many levels, were witnessing a struggle for Truth And Democracy in this country. How do you think this is going to play out . Yeah. Look, youre right. This is all part of the same struggle, and it is certainly the greatest struggle over the fundamental tenets of American Democracy since at least the jim Crow Era and possibly since the civil war. You see that the vast majority of the republican party both in the states and in washington are operationalizing trumps, you know, discredited claims of fraud in 2020 and moving forward with an incredibly aggressive Voter Suppression Agenda that they are passing, don, importantly on a Party Line Basis in state after state. And in washington they are locking arms both to defend that and to block any further investigation into what happened on January 6th. In this world, the one lever the democrats have to fight back is their unified control of the congress and the white house. And the critical question on all of these fronts is, are democrats going to use that power, or are they going to be paralyzed by this argument that they have to give a veto to the republicans in the senate who are, in effect, defending whats already happening to roll back democracy in the states. Republicans have used the filibuster to kill the bipartisan commission to look at the capitol insurrection, to stop even taking up debate on a voting Rights Bill. How can the gop even say that they are standing up for democracy at this point . Well, let me first address the filibuster, don. I wish you could have been in the house republican conference after the Tea Party victories when i used to listen routinely to House Republicans talk about eliminating the filibuster. And they wanted to do that because they wanted to jam and roll the other side. I objected to it then. I object to it now. It has been abused and misused on votes like the commission, and they should have allowed the vote to proceed tonight. Thats not to say that because of that we should reform the filibuster. On the Voting Rights legislation, there are some flaws with this for the people act. I mean should the federal government be mandating Sameday Registration . I think thats an overreach. Independent commissions, i think, are valid, but thats a prerogative of the state government. Should there be federally financed congressional campaigns . These are serious policy questions. I can understand why a lot of people might object to those. Charlie, let me ask you because i think its interesting and its good that you say reform the filibuster. I think many people would say, Okay, fine. Lets take a look at that. And also if you think that there needs to be if the bills arent perfect, why not bring it to the Floor And Debate it and let the american people hear it . Well, i would agree. One other thing about the for the people act. That bill was written long before these clays were being made at the state legislative level. I know there are plenty of democrats who have reservations about it but theyre happy to hide behind Joe Manchin on this one. I still think they should pivot to the John Lewis Voting rights act. I think that addresses the supreme Court Decision of a few years ago in shelby. Thats what i would do. Would it address whats happening around the country with these restrictive bills . No. No, because its not retro retroactive, right . So the only way they can address the only lever they have to address whats happening in the states is to set a nationwide floor of Voting Rights. I think to represent Dents Argument that it was too sweeping, i think were going to get a test of that. Senator merkley told me today that the democratic response to this is going to be to negotiate a slimmed down bill based on the compromise that manchin offered a few days ago and basically all democrats will unify behind something like that and then ask Manchin And Sinema and others who claim that this can be done, whether they can find ten republicans. And if they cant, it becomes another Proof Point in what is really this process, don, thats going to go all the way on for quite a while of trying to move manchin, sinema, and maybe others off their resistance to changing the filibuster by demonstrating to them time after time that there are not ten republicans willing to come to the table. That rather than promoting compromise and negotiation, the filibuster actually makes it easier for republicans to simply stonewall because now they know they can block completely what democrats want to do. If they knew something was going to pass, then they might feel more pressure to actually negotiate. Charlie, quickly jump in. Just on the filibuster, look, my experience was that filibuster really facilitated compromise during my time. I would see the House Republicans at times would pass bills that had no chance of becoming law, and the only way we could make these bills reasonable was for adults in the senate in a bipartisan way to come to a consensus, and thats how we would make law. That filibuster helped us reach compromise. I realize its abused, but at the same time, ill tell you what. The senate will look a lot like the house and well have majoritarian rule. We will have new laws. They will not be durable or sustainable, and thats a shame. You need a bipartisan law in order to make sure these laws are sustainable. I worry about this going forward. Its going to be the last word. Tough both. I appreciate it. Thank you. Joining me now, democratic senator Jeff Merkley of oregon. Hes one of the chief authors of the for the people act. Senator, good to see you. Thanks for joining. Very good to be with you, don. So you have said if democrats cant protect Voting Rights, it will be and i quote here political armageddon. Republicans blocked your bill tonight, so is that where we are . No, not yet. This was just the round one battle. Theres going to be a round two, a round three, round four, round five until we get this done because just fundamental constitutional values at stake here. The rights of every american to cast a Ballot And Help determine the future of our country. Senator manchin proposed a compromise that includes many parts of the for the people act but would require some form of identification to vote. Check out this new monmouth poll. 80 of all americans in favor of this requirement. Are you going to support it . The way that ive viewed his approach is to say, how does this serve the fundamental premises of which there are four. One, does It Stop Billionaires from Buying Elections by getting rid of dark money . The answer is yes. The second of all, does it provide early Voting Opportunity and absentee Voting Opportunity so states just Cant Play shenanigans on Election Day to prevent people from voting. The answer is yes. Does it provide commissions to be able to stop gerrymandering . The answer is yes. And does it address conflicts of interest that create a lot of corruption so that we can have public servants actually serving the public . And the answer again is yes. So we have a lot to work with here in the manchin proposal. Im sure theres points that people will bring expertise to bear and say, hey, do you realize how this would work in my state or another state . But weve got a very fundamental proposal. We worked in communication with his team throughout the weekend, and i think theres still some conversation to occur. But i think weve really made big strides. So not fully onboard yet but working it out . Because the question was are you going to support it . Yes. Well, i think manchin is open to some adjustments as we take information back. We actually havent seen text yet. Mmhmm. He may have released it tonight. He said he might be able to release it tonight. So well go through that version, and im sure there will be some suggestions. But the vision of working together to produce this bill that he supports, that he has laid the foundation for, i think is very much on track. Okay. The next step will be reaching out to the republican caucus. And if that fails and theres only 50 of us in the senate who will defend the constitution, then those 50 of us have to figure out how to get past the Mcconnell Veto because we have that responsibility, the oath we took. Thats the filibuster. If manchin had perhaps been on with changing or carving out or making some sort of changes to the filibuster, perhaps he wouldnt be in this position. And speaking of, Senator Kyrsten Sinema is out with a new oped explaining why she is against getting rid of the filibuster to pass Voting Rights. She says, to those who want to eliminate the legislative filibuster to pass the for the people act, i would ask, would it be good for our country if we did only to see that legislation rescinded a few years from now and replaced by a nationwide voter i. D. Law or restrictions on voting by mail in federal elections over the objections of the minority . So weve heard that argument, but does it stand up in the moment that were in right now . I have been saying this is a break the glass moment. What do you think . So the argument does stand up in this sense, that in that article, sinema said we need to have a vote on process and we need to listen to Each Others concerns and considerations. And when people come together to listen to Each Other and say, what are the pros and cons, then we have the possibility to move forward. We dont have to eliminate the filibuster. At the heart of it was the courtesy of making sure the majority doesnt overrun the minority. And that courtesy has existed from the beginning. Then that courtesy was abused for 80 years to stop civil rights legislation, so it had a very dark Jim Crow connection. And then it was kind of used on everything by Mitch Mcconnell to paralyze the senate. The other half of the Majority Listening to the minority was that ultimately the minority could not paralyze the senate. Robert berg made many changes to keep the minority from paralyzing the senate. Our founders said dont allow a supermajority to paralyze the senate because they were under a supermajority when they wrote the constitution. So when we get together and share our concerns, i think we can have the ability to restore, reinvigorate, improve kind of the best concept of the filibuster rather than the worst. Senator merkley, Thank You, sir. Thank you, don. Now i want to turn to adam jentleson, the former Deputy Chief of staff. Thank you, adam. Good to see you again. Good to see you again don. Now that republicans have blocked this voting Rights Bill, all eyes again are on the filibuster. You say the question to reform the filibuster boils down to do we want a functional or dysfunctional government . Tell us why, adam. Thats right. Well, you know, the question were facing right now is something that the framers actually predicted when they created the senate. And, you know, one of the big myths about the filibuster is that its this foundational feature of the senate. Thats just simply not true. The framers created a senate that was a majority rule body. This myth that there would be wild swings back and forth is not something that they were afraid of. And they specifically explained in the federalist papers, in their personal correspondence, in the notes of the constitutional convention, the framers specifically explained that if you impose a Supermajority Threshold and require bills to get more than a majority to pass the senate, that the result would be gridlock. And so this 60vote Threshold that we have in the Senate Today is something that has only evolved in the past few daekz and the result is exactly what the framers predicted, gridlock. So if you want to reform the filibuster, what were really talking about is do you want a government that is capable of functioning at a very basic level . Mmhmm. Listen, i think charlie spoke very reasonably. He says he believes the filibuster should be reformed. He doesnt necessarily think it should be gotten rid of. I think its time to look at the filibuster and see if there is some room for reformation or revising it. There seems to be this misconception that the filibuster was something established by the founding fathers, or at least something they supported when in fact they warned against this sort of thing as you said. Your various examples in the federalist papers. There it is right there. James madison, Alexander Hamilton. Explain why they were so against it. Is it because the gridlock or does it go beyond that . Yeah. I mean the reason is that they had just had personal firsthand experience with what congress looks like when you put a Supermajority Threshold in place. The articles of confederation, which were the first draft of american government that was in place during the revolutionary war, had a Supermajority Threshold in its version of congress for most major legislation. And they put it there for the same reasons the defenders of the filibuster defend it today. They thought that including and requiring a Supermajority Threshold would create compromise and consensus. Instead, what they saw firsthand in the 1780s was na gridlock was the result. So when they went to write the constitution, this he were coming directly off this firsthand experience of, so that is why they were so focused on this point and were very clear we should not have a Supermajority Requirement in our legislature. Kyrsten sinema, the senator, is defending the filibuster. She believes that the 60vote Fl Threshold forces compromise. Youre saying the framers didnt necessarily say that. She had an oped that was published today. How is she wrong . Thats right. This is one of the flaws that the framers pointed out in. In federalist 22, Alexander Hamilton takes on this argument, the same Argument Senator Sinema is making. Hamilton wrote that what at first sight might seem a remedy is in fact a poison. He and other framers were very aware that you might think that a supermajority would promote compromise just as sinema is saying it does. But they explain thats not what happens. If you give the minority the ability to wield a veto over the majority, whats going to happen is the minority is going to find it impossible to resist the temptation to use that veto. And theyre going to use it to make the majority look bad, to Gridlock Everything that happens in washington. You know, they predicted this. Senator sinema seems content to ignore that wisdom and continue to engage in this myth that has been debunked by the framers in 1789 and is debunked by our Reallife Experience of the Senate Today where the gridlock that results is exactly what the framers predicted would happen if you impose a Supermajority Threshold. Adam, we learn so much when youre on. Can we get his book back up if we can, please . Adam, i learn so much when you come on. I appreciate it. The book is called kill switch. There it is right there. If you want to learn more about whats happening in the senate, about the filibuster, No One better in my estimation than adam. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. It is the latest boogeyman from the republican Outrage Machine but a Founding Theorist of critical Race Theory says its not what theyre telling you. They are propagandizing to our children. They are turning our children away from Faith And Family and our founding principles and ideals. So get relief fast. Only Tylenol Rapid release gels have laserdrilled holes. They release Medicine Fast for fast pain relief. Tylenol rapid release gels. Try our new scented oils for freshness that lasts. Crafted to give you amazingly natural smelling they release Medicine Fast for fast pain relief. Fragrances, day after day. For up to 60 days. Give us one plug for freshness that lasts. No, hes not in his room. Dad, why didnt you answer your phone . Your mother loved this park. She did. The gop latching onto critical Race Theory as its latest boogeyman, using it as a political rallying try to gin up the base. The republicans invoking it as a cudgel dont seem to actually understand what it is about. So its a framework for looking at systemic racism in americas institutions. Well, of course that doesnt stop senator Josh Hawley from saying things like this. Here it is. Young children set off to school with eyes full of hope and hearts full of pride in their country, only to be taught that white privilege defines the nation, that subjects like mathematics are inherently racist, that the christian faith is oppressive. Theyre taught that the nuclear family perpetuates racism. All right. So joining me now is kimberly crenshaw, a leading scholar and Founding Theorist of critical Race Theory. Kimberly, thanks for joining us. I appreciate it. Its a pleasure to be here, don. Thank you. So lets discuss this, Okay . So what Senator Hawley is saying about critical Race Theory, is that what it is . Well, of course thats not what it is. You know, critical Race Theory is basically an academic discipline that was started by Law Professors in the 70s And 80s that intended to look at the reasons why there is so much of a gap between promises of american equality, the promises of the 13th and the 14th amendment, and our ability to realize those promises in real and material ways. Sometimes we like to talk about it in terms that acknowledge that race is itself a fiction, but racism is very real. What role has law played over the course of our history in making race real and encoding racism into our institutions . And thats basically been what weve been doing. But, look, i think its important that we not fall into the trap of trying to define what crt is because thats what they want us to do. Whats important is to focus on whats behind this. Whats behind this is not an effort to really think or debate about the history of race and racism. Its not an effort to really think about how its been embedded in our institutions and how to fix some of its toxicity. What this is, is an effort to respond to last years incredible mobilization around the killing of george floyd. The fact that there is finally a majority in American Society thats willing and wanting to talk about institutionalized forms of racism. They didnt have a way to respond to that, and so they rooted around to find something, and they found critical Race Theory. So what theyre talking about, what this hysteria is about, a, its not happening. B, its not what critical Race Theory is. But, c, it is a Wedge Issue that they hope to pound all the way to the polls. Well, Okay. Im glad you said that especially about not letting other people define it because when i talk about teaching the entire history of the country should be taught in schools. People say, well, thats critical Race Theory. I say im not talking about critical Race Theory. Im talking about teaching the truth about history and not allowing people to use Buzz Terms to sort of define the moment. Im glad you said what you said because here are some examples of what the right have been saying about critical Race Theory. Listen to this. Let me tell you right now. Critical Race Theory is bigoted. It is a lie, and it is every bit as racist as the klansmen in white sheets. Critical Race Theory teaches children as young as kindergarten to be ashamed of their skin color. Unfortunately critical Race Theory is a lie. It makes americans hate Each Other. Its a tragedy in that way. Its not going to be allowed in florida classrooms. Spending tax dollars to teach kids that america is a rotten place is absolutely unacceptable. Okay. Klansman in a white sheet, whatever. Yeah. So why have republicans wrapped critical Race Theory into this buzzword thats being used as a Grab Bag to attack things that they dont like . Well, don, its a very old tale. What is that saying . New wine and old skins, or this is old wine and new skins. This is the old argument that antiracism is racism against white people. That racial justice is a zerosum game. And its an old strategy of creating hysteria, particularly around children. I mean, we have to remember that brown versus board of education, the landmark civil Rights Victory didnt really go into effect for a decade. Why . Because the south united in denouncing it as subversive. They united in saying this is a threat to our children, a threat to our nation. Remember, Martin Luther King was called the most dangerous man in america. So the idea that racial progress is, in fact, an assault against white people, against their heritage, against the very core of American Democracy is not a new idea. Theyve just rehashed it in this moment because it serves to help deflect what the truth is. This is the party that brought you January 6th. It is the party that brought you every effort to cover up January 6th. It has put democracy on life support, and now theyre pointing a finger at critical Race Theory so people dont really look at the bankruptcy of what theyre about. You point out that critical Race Theory isnt even taught in k through 12 schools. It is a legal theory taught in law schools. Are you worried that even if the gop is wrong about what it is, that theyre going to be successful in hijacking the conversation . Because, again, what theyre talking about none of what theyre saying is true. Its not even taught to school kids. I mean it makes no sense, but you know. Go on. Sorry, kimberly. Of course im worried about it because its worked in the past. I mean, look, one thing that the republicans are very, very good at is creating hysteria around things that they have put into the mix and then mobilize millions of people to think that they have to fight like their lives depend on it. I mean thats what January 6th was. They created a lie about the election. They ginned people up, and they got them to attack the capitol in defense of democracy, right . This is a very old tactic. Its tried and true. And the real challenge honestly, don, is that so many people are confused about what this is about. They think that its really a debate about critical Race Theory. They dont realize that this is deflection. They dont realize that this is old Willie Horton Kind of politics. So while the other side is ginned up, our folks are trying to find a book. What is it about . Is this really happening in schools . So what we have to do is focus on the source. Consider the source. Consider the playbook. Consider what is at stake. And consider what we will lose. Already teachers are losing their jobs for teaching tanehisi coates. Teachers are losing their jobs for teaching spoken word poetry. And whats also on the Chopping Block is a whole range of things. Ethnic studies departments, potentially diversity programs. 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Hes a professor of economics and Public Policy at the university of michigan. Hi, justin. Thank you for coming on. Its a pleasure. Listen, the u. S. Economy has changed postpandemic. There are largescale labor shortages, especially in lowpaying jobs. In april alone, 3. 95 million americans left the workforce. Whats happening, and are these jobs coming back . Yeah. I want to be careful about calling it a worker shortage. In fact, i want to urge you not to. Okay. A different way of looking at the Labor Market is how many people would be employed right now if we had our prepandemic trends. It would be about 10 Million people more. 10 Million missing jobs is about as bad as the darkest days of the 20082009 recession. So this is an economy thats still hurting. I think the real question is how optimistic or pessimistic should we be going forward . Okay. So you said not a worker shortage, right . Yeah. So, look, heres one way to think about it. Imagine that the pandemic had caused half of all couples to get divorced. Mmhmm. In some sense, it did the Employment Equivalent of that. If six months later theres a bunch of singles still looking to find their life partners, i dont think that would surprise you. Well, the Labor Market works a bit like that. This is the biggest game of 52 Card Pickup Weve ever played and its going to take a while for workers and firms to find Each Other again. Okay. Got it. Theres a lot of talk about unemployment benefits, justin, being a disincentive for lowwage workers to return to work. Is that really a problem because those extra benefits would amount to about 15,000 even if they lasted a year, which they dont. So those benefits are really helping remember, there are millions of people without work, and its helping them put food on the tables for their families. So its important to remember the upside of them at the same time. Don, let me broaden the conversation, which is what people are worried about is what economists call labor supply, people willing to work. And one of the possibilities is that Unemployment Insurance affects that, and maybe theres a small effect there. But there are other issues as well like child care. For instance in my town of ann arbor, the local School District has said theyre no longer going to offer afterskol care, which is a tremendous problem for parents. There are people in retail who are still quite afraid to work given the wars over masks and the like. And the other thing is this is a unique recession. We have never had a recession before where millions of people are out of work, yet they all or many of them feel confident that the economy is going to come back. Normally when were in a hole, were worried its going to get deeper. So maybe people are just feeling a little bit confident, and as a result of that, they feel they can look around a little more to try and find the right job for them in the postpandemic economy. Look, thats a feature of this recovery, not a bug. Lets take a look at this. This is inflation. It is up 5 since may. The largest increase in inflation since 2008, and its impacting everything from milk to airline tickets, up 7. 2 for milk, 1. 6 for alcohol, 3. 2 for fresh fruits and vegetables. Look, its terrible for consumers, but it is also threatening the recovery, no . Is it . One way of thinking about this is the pandemic destroyed both the Supply Side of the economy and the demand side. No one wanted to work and produce, and equally No One wanted to spend. So what we have in this reopening is Demand And Supply both coming back. And whats going to happen through some periods of that is that demand will move ahead a little faster than supply. Thats been happening the last couple of months, and thats why youve seen things like Lumber Prices rise. But later on its possible that it will reverse and that maybe supply will come back a little stronger as well. A lot of what were seeing with inflation remember, inflation measures where prices are today compared with a year ago. Well, a year ago prices were art officially low because we were in the depths of the pandemic. So Thats Part of it. And part of its just transitory Price Adjustments as were trying to work all the kinks out of reopening this machine we call the u. S. Economy. Justin wolfers, i appreciate that. Thank you. A pleasure. Lets talk about Gun Sales, Okay . Listen to this. Gun Sales Way up during the coronavirus pandemic. But the group that is buying them the most might just surprise you. Another day, another chance. It could be the day you break the sales record, or the day theres appointments nonstop. 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I feel like in this country, in this climate, if you dont know how to take care of yourself, youre at a disadvantage. Reporter Gun Sales spiked during the covid19 pandemic, with women and people of color driving a majority of that increase according to the national shooting sports foundation. The number of black buyers increased 58 last year compared to 2019. More than any other group. I think for the most part, were getting guns for selfdefense. Reporter Phillip Smith is the president of the national africanamerican gun association. He says his group has seen a dramatic increase in membership over the last year. Im talking to black doctors, nurses, lawyers, biochemists, from every walk of life in the africanamerican community, and theyre saying, hey, phil, we weve had conversations about getting a gun tonight. Reporter he said theyve seen more interest from women specifically. Black women have stepped up and theyre joining in droves. Reporter some of the people who have never shot before, you can see them getting that Oneonone Training before aiming their gun at the target and firing. They say this is something thats very empowering to them and something theyre glad theyve been able to do. While the latest spike in Gun Sales among black buyers may be driven in part by the pandemic and an uptick in crime in major cities nationwide, its not necessarily new. I mean guns have always been in our history. Its just not told. Reporter but could carrying a gun for protection become a factor that could lead to a deadly confrontation with police . Thats also on the minds of black gun owners. When you have a gun and youre a black gun owner, you have a different set of rules. Reporter philando castile, who was licensed to carry, was shot and killed in 2016 by a Police Officer during a traffic stop. The officer said he opened fire when he thought castile put his hand on his firearm. He was later found not guilty on all counts. But we dont want to turn around the next day and say, you know what . We need to all put our guns away because thats the worst thing you can do because were getting shot anyway. We need to protect ourselves and let everyone know that you have a right to the second amendment. Our ancestors died for that. My ancestors died for that. Reporter on the range, they want to shift what Gun Ownership in america looks like. Perfect. Very good shooting. Reporter are you hoping to change the perception of black folks and guns . I do actually because i dont see why we Cant Exercise our second Amendment Rights. If Everyone Else can, why cant we . Reporter don, its really all about changing the perception when it comes to black people and guns. This effort here is to make sure people realize its their second Amendment Right to be able to fire and bear arms. Thats something thats been repeated over and over again throughout this course, and something that people here seem to enjoy. 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Hes a pretty private person. But i think one of the more telling things with what happened with what carl said in his Instagram Post is that hes not necessarily doing this for him. Hes more so doing this for the Lgbtq Youth who he explicitly stated in his post that, you know, just by one accepting, one Caring Adult in the life of an Lgbtq Youth kid, that decreases the suicide among this community by 40 . Just one person. I think thats a statistic that i didnt know. Thats devastating to even have to think about. But the fact that he took that on himself and he put the burden on his shoulders to come out and say, hey, this is my truth, and im going to live it, and i hope that it helps others do the same. And it obviously will. Youre talking about the nfl, right . Its the most manly, Macho Sport on the planet. But for him to do that and not only for him to come out and do this but for his teammates to rally around him, for his head coach, for the team owner, for other guys, other superstars in the nfl, that means a lot. Allyship means a lot, and i think that, you know, youll see hopefully this open up more doors for other professional athletes, including more Nfl Players. I want to talk about this because you have been open about the fact that up say you used to be homophobic. You didnt have any gay friends at the time. But then you took a hard look at yourself. Something opened your eyes. Tell me how this has changed for you. Yeah. It was a really interesting scenario for me, just some introspection that i, as a person, never thought, you know, as a young guy, i never thought that i was homophobic because i wasnt looking at gays like i wanted to do them harm. I didnt look at them like, you know, theyre a different kind of person. But i did have that mentality. I did have that attitude, and just because i wasnt verbalizing it in any manner or just because i wasnt vocalizing it doesnt mean that those feelings werent there. And it all came to fruition really after i was sitting down in a restaurant that i frequented in miami as an Nfl Player called nobu. I knew everyone there because i was there every day. And i was inviting some of them out because i had a table that night later at this nightclub called mint. And i asked them if they would all like to come, you know, and hang out and have some drinks, hang out after a long day of work. Yeah. So one of my friends there, her name is dee. She told me that one of the guys wasnt going to come through, and i was like, why . Is he busy . He should come. Were all going to be there hanging out. She was like, well, hes gay and its a macho thing. I really took offense, like, am i giving off these vibes like i dont want to be around him. She was like, no, its the whole Nfl Kind of macho thing. So long story short, he ended up coming through later on, and he and i talked for like 30, 45 minutes as two human beings. That began your journey. Im out of time. Sorry, donte. Ive got to get to the next show. Thank you, i appreciate your perspective. As you know, we have you on often. Well have you back. Thanks so much. You be well. Thanks. You too. Thanks for watching, everyone. Our coverage continues. Welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and around the world. Im rosemary church. Just ahead here, republicans have blocked the democrats attempt to pass a sweeping voting Rights Bill but the administration says the fight is not over. Well hear from the president later today as the country confronts a sharp rise in homicides as pandemic restrictions are lifted. And the u. S. Is falling a bet short of its goal to vaccinate 70 of alldu