and this is something that we continue to have to do. and you know, old man like me, with 61 out here, you know, it s just important to let people like you know that this is something that we will have to fight every day, this is something that will never end, like bob marley once said, the people on the other side who are trying to take your rights away aren t taking a day off. why should you? now, the john lewis voting rights bill did pass the house last week, it does face an uphill battle in the senate because of road blocks, to in particular, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. jose? thanks more that. and jeff, president biden made a big appeal for voting rights last week, traveling to capitol hill to meet with senate democrats, but those efforts appear to have failed, as the votes aren t there to either advance the legislation or change senate rules to allow it to pass by a simple majority. so where does this leave president biden and democrats? well, you heard president biden t
nelson mandela had been in prison for nearly a quarter century, for 24 hour years. apartheid had been the law of the land in south africa for 40 years and the bill did pass the house. it did pass the senate and then the president of the united states wouldn t put his signature on it. ronald reagan retoed the south african sanctions bill. night after night, week after week, television has brought us reports of violence by south african security forces bringing injury and death to peaceful demonstrators and innocent bystanders, more recently, we read of violent attacks by plaques against blacks. then there is the cal can ycula terror the mining of roads, bombings of public places, the imposition of marshall law and eventually creating the conditions for racial war. reagan was the biggest name
poisonous aftermath of ground zero. new york mayor michael bloomberg surrounding himself with fire and police officials to send a message to the senate. nothing less than a national duty. america is too great a country to shirk this duty. we are too strong. too proud, too proktic. getting anything done in washington is never easy, but thanks to years of hard work by many people and the strong leadership, the bill did pass the house earlier this year. earlier this month, the senate fell several votes short of the 60 required to end debate and take a vote. at the time, republicans said they voted against ending debate because they did not believe any bill should move until a deal on tax cuts had been completed. that deal is now done and the
is and the fact that his own administration was supporting it? well look, we speak on an almost daily basis. it s well known that he has concerns about the domestic fisa law, that s not what we re doing today. today was 702, which is a different part of that law. title 7, not title 1, in title 7 which we re doing today is foreign terrors and foreign soil. so president trump did attempt another try, a little less than two hours after his first tweet, writing this time, quote, with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today s vote is about surveillance of bad guys on foreign land, we need it. get smart. cnn white house chief of staff john kelly who was on capitol hill if the president s tweets made matters more difficult? kelly responded, it s not more difficult, it s a juggling act. the bill did pass the house, it s now headed to the senate. asked about the confusion today,