Push back on that. of course as mcconnell, minority leader mcconnell, the republican leader here in the senate, embraced reforming the electoral count act, there s a group of republicans and democrats working on bipartisan legislation as senator susan collins who is leading the charge, hiring more poll workers, and preventing that election officials won t be faced with intimidation as they do their work in the states and other measures that they re working to do, but democrats pushing back on that, saying it s not an adequate replacement to voting rights legislation and it would take far too long to do in this midterm year to protect the elections we have coming up around the corner and now advocates i m hearing from, of course frustrated. the president s agenda, the democratic leadership is hitting a wall. when they decided to shift from build back better to voting rights, i heard many say that that was an impossible task as well because of those two senators who were unwilling to mov
So he s in a tough spot here. mcconnell, after knowing mcconnell for a long time, he is never going to rush. he s not going to give into pressure. he is going to have a strategy. he will speck to it as much as he can. i would like an example of mcconnell feeling pressure on the timeline. i do find it fascinating that there are some things not laid out in the constitution but simply in senate rules of how a senate trial could look and could feel. what are you learning? well, kate, there are senate rules. they were updated in 1986. of course we have the clinton trial in the 1990s as an example of how this can work. and i will caution any of this can change if you have a majority of senators who want to change the rules. and of course schumer and mcconnell could come to an