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literally on hold as they re going to be s senate majority leader chuck schumer was again forced to rescind a promise he and democrats could not keep because, in part, of other democrats unable to get two voting rights bills passed this week in advance of monday s observance of dr. martin luther king jr. s life. schumer now insists that the debate on those bills will begin the next day, and that democrats will be able to maneuver past a republican filibuster with a simple majority. of course, one wonders if democrat holdouts joe manchin and kyrsten sinema will take to the floor again as sinema did this week to tell black voters that, while she idolized the late john lewis, an all-out assault on the franchise was somehow easier to make peace with than even amending the filibuster to pass the legislation that bears lewis name. the vote is front and center on politicsnation tonight. we also have new details on just how much donald trump and house minority leader kevin m ....
the year is 2006, republican president george w. bush is signing an extension of the voting rights act. staying there behind him is missouri senator roy blunt who now thinks voting rites is a partisan issue. that 25-year extension of the voting rights act was so bipartisan that both the majority and the minority leader were there for the signing. oh, okay, right here next to hillary clinton is senator lindsey graham before he thought that protecting voting rights was a power grab. fast forward to today when the senator who will go into the history books as little more than a caddy to the disgraced twice impeached former president said this. as to voting rights itself, i think this is the most height manufactured issue in a long time. let s just be clear. when we talk about voting rights regulation, we talk a lot about what president biden should do, what majority leader chuck schumer could do but what about the republican party up until very recently unanimously sup ....
states is telegraphing what s going to be on the table. it includes talk of missile placement and military exercises in europe. richard engel is in ukraine. he will join us later in the show with the latest. velshi begins now. good morning. we are ten months away from what may be the most consequential midterm elections in modern history. the insurrection that erupted into violence one year ago is not only not over, it s on the ballot. as if it s something to be debated and not lamented. the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack continues its work with bennie thompson saying the committee would like to speak to former vice president mike pence voluntarily, if possible, within the month. that s going to be interesting to see how that goes down. pence s press secretary saying he won t show without a subpoena. garland said they will go as high up as it needs to go to find justice and prosecute those who tried to undo american democracy from within. ....
you grew up in, charity long supported. they are very different if you are an episcopalian, you know exactly what. everywhere in this country, formerly respectable organizations, have seem to gone off the deep end. have you listened to national public radio recently? npr was always a little nutty, but in a familiar nonthreatening kind of way. your average public radio station ran needs cultural programming, the celtic music hour or bluegrass show. public radio s most popular feature was something called car talk. remember that? a show where two italian mechanics, in boston, both of them, they argue the merits of combustion engines and they fix your honda. all npr stations aired in the news from washington. there was morning edition in the morning, all things considered on the trip home. anchors were left of center, but they were subconsciously upmarket. they spoke in comically stilted having come located opinions about wine. this is npr, they d say. national publi ....
became untenable as they needed support of moderates and progressives in the democratic party in the house to get on board with both the infrastructure bill that s now law and then also build back better, which is what they just voted on. so now it does head to the senate, where, remember, they need to get all 50 democratic senators on board. this is a very specific process they re using to pass this. so there s a lot of procedural hurdles they have to face and get through, but they also more than anything need to get on the same page. at this point, senator joe manchin of course has expressed a lot of concern about a number of provisions that are coming out of the house over into the senate. one example of that, paid family leave. that is more likely than not to get dropped. he s expressed that he does not believe that belongs in this bill. but there s a virt of other issues. climate provisions, for example, they need to get into and figure out what can get the support ....