Give you last word. Antiwar candidate he criticized iraq and afghanistan war. He was reluctant to get into another war. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for all of his efforts. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for watching. Hard ball starts right now, chris matthews. The coming of trump. Lets play hard ball. Back in washington the start of a busy month. In 18 days donald trump will be
sworn in like it or not as the 45th president of the United States. Today President Obama returned from vacation in hawaii with the goal of trying to protect his legacy which is an Endangered Political Spe sees. Address last week interest chicago. President elect trump returned from his vacation. He tweeted. 2,762 this past year. He criticized what he called Media Outlets for suggesting he himself thought he was going to lose the election. Well talk to newly appointed kellyanne conway. What is donald trump know that we dont what does donald trump know that President Obama and
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the senate because it has the two per state already has a sort of filibuster built into it structurally before you ever get to the senate rules. joe manchin s concern about protecting minority rights in the senate was actually done, i personally would argue, over done by the founders when they said two per state. absolutely. again, we re the only country that i know of, only democracy i know of that has a filler buster like rule that allows for permanent veto by a minority of legislation backed by a majority. this is a these are profoundly undemocratic institutions. the so when you look at today s discussion about the war on democracy because republicans
threat. if we don t get these two bills and more, the freedom to vote act, the john lewis voting act and help protect democracy act and the electoral count act, we re in for something worse than we saw last january or this past january 6th. that s important. the other part is we still have an obstacle and the obstacle is the reluctance of the two senators manchin and sinema to go with a reform that would restore the filibuster. senator sinema thinks the filler buster was in place or super majority requirement from the beginning of the republic is a misconception of the reality and i think we have a chance now of convincing both of them the kind of reform jeff merckly and others put together that includes the idea al franken and i had for a long time moving
of voting rights into a national non-partisan issue and i mean, if i were president biden, i would make an oval office address and say nothing less is at stake than american democracy and it s a simple proposition that everybody has the right to vote and everybody s vote should be counted. now let me tell you what is happening in these various ize t congress trying to pass legislation. i would suspend the filler buster and talk to mansion. if we give that sense of urgency and crisis, it may get through because i think the danger here is this is a kind of slow motion coup. there is no one day where something is happening that is undermining democracy. it s in about 12 states that are seas of small sesmeasures have n taken. in georgia the secretary of
the freedom to vote, unrig the maps, all of those provisions are uniformingly and resoundingly protected. it is a good thing if democrats have to go at it alone, do it alone you re doing it for america because that s what we re trying to push and send. doing it alone would involve getting all of the democrats and independents that have been clear they re not willing to do anything to touch the filibuster. angus king is nervous about getting rid of filibuster and mansion and cinema wrapped their arms around the filibuster as if it s a christmas present. they will never let it go. i m wondering if democrats are not willing to change the filibuster. i feel like we re at an impress. what do we do? they re not willing to do anything? we ve seen carveouts of the filler buster before. we did an op ed a carveout for democracy should be tenable but acceptable and that carveout can t happen.