altering the filibuster on issues like voting rights and the debt limit increases. also tonight the house voting to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress for defying a subpoena. late tonight the cdc director approving booster shots for the moderna and j&j vaccines, endorsing the recommendations from the agency s vaccine advisory committee. so, we ve got a lot to talk about. let s bring in mr. david axle robi rod, and mr. bakar ri sellers. thanks for the tie. yeah. david, hello to you. so much at stake thanks for my tie? what s going on here? bakar ri is not wearing a necktie. i said tie, t-i-e.
should i take my tie off. i m going fror the youthful sexy look at 11:00. it s 11:00 and it hasn t happened. i m not going to attempt the youthful sexy look, so let s just keep going. back on the tracks. so, there is a lot at stake for the president tonight. he had to sell his domestic agenda, which still isn t over the finish line yet. so, how do you think you did, david? you know, i think he did pretty well. i think he did well you know, he s always good at expressing support for people who are struggling and working hard out there in middle class families. he did that. mostly what he did, don, was he really gave us a look at what is actually going on and where this bill is where it s likely to land. that was really useful. i thought he was incredibly candid about that. he said one thing i thought was instructive that framed the whole discussion. he said, when you have 50
and my plea for manchin and sinema would be simply that the reason that you re in the majority, the reason that you have this leverage is because people fought and died for these rights that apparently don t ring that alarm for you but ring that alarm for me. and i would hope they would get on board. david, do you want to respond? no. look, that s absolutely right. i was a little actually confused by his answer on voting rights because his initial answer was i couldn t i can t i don t want to talk about this because i ll lose three votes on these other bills if i talk about this. then he said, i m for a i would like to try a standing filibuster, which is something manchin said he would support, reinstating the rule where you have to stand on the floor and hold the floor in order to filibuster. and, you know, people were broken by that at times. but then he was asked would he consider a carveout for voting
we re never going to you woul entertain the issue of the filibuster, is that correct. and maybe more. and maybe other issues. so, what does this mean for voting rights? what did you think of that? i m excited. it took us a long time to get to this point. i thought david was right in the fact that tonight this is one of the things you have to love or dislike. if you re a campaign operative you dislike about joe biden. if you re somebody who voted for him like i did or support him like i do, you have to love he s so honest. he shows you all the sausage making. he shows you how things get done. tonight he did that. and tonight he talks about things that mattered to the american people. that s why these town halls are s