dana: clever. it was the easiest speech i ve ever given. i didn t have to right a word of it. just repeated when chuck schumer said over the rules the importance of senate rules and respect the rights of the minority in the senate. the senate is a place where you have a sober second thought. sometimes transient or fleeting opinions coming from the house of representatives. it played that role over our history and needs to continue to play that roll. if you are looking for integrity and principled stance chuck schumer is not the politician you want to look to. what republicans will do this week is defend our constitution and customs to protect the voices of all americans in our government. dana: senator schumer has a strategy today figuring out a way to try to get to what he needs. is that possible? i don t think it s possible, dana. i have not heard anything from
joe manchin or kyrsten sinema suggesting they are going to go down the radical path. i don t suspect joe biden doesn t have anything to say to them than he did on tuesday. call them racists for not thinking we should have ballot harvesting doesn t seem to me a strategy for winning over those democratic senators. bill: some of the democrats have already gone public suggesting that that whole deal in georgia was too much. dick durbin, al sharpton. watch. perhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric but the fundamental principles and values at stake are very similar. if he was trying to get votes it would not be vote getting speech. i think he gave a you are going to hell speech. bill: it is hard to get them on the same page on a topic like this. warnock the winning senator
but start out by saying i hope we can get this done, went on to say if we miss the first time we come back a second time. after he asked, john, is this mic on. john: yeah, there s no question i think when you look at senator sinema s position and look at the constituency she has t answer to as well as joe manchin, they are not prepared to move. she gave an lengthy and eloquent speech on the senate floor that manchin applauded, all for voting rights, and republicans think it s a legislative overreach, but she came out and said as much as she supports the idea of moving to voting legislation, she s not prepared to nuke the filibuster to do it. and some democratic senators and certainly democratic politician, politicos have warned senator chuck schumer if you do this now it s going to big you bite time
lunch. what do we know so far? the president is about to sink a lot of political capital into a fight he is set to lose because he can t unite his own party. ahead of the president s visit, in her floor speech. sinema made clear she will not support changes to the rules to further divide the country and joe manchin is also dug in. hear from the president at the meeting? able to hear, you know, whatever he has on his mind to say. did you listen to senator sinema s speech on the floor? did an excellent job. do you agree with the points she made? the points i ve been making a long time and she has too. seen as a display of the president s wishes because the senate democrats know they don t have the votes to support the
president biden will meet with democrats on capitol hill this afternoon trying to get moderates on board with blowing up the senate rule book, the nuclear option. it would clear a path for democrats to federalize u.s. elections. bill: the president s big speech on that topic is being slammed by republicans. a few democrats chiming in, too. minority leader mitch mcconnell went to the floor of the senate with a stem winder of a speech and let it fly. this president said we should see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. yesterday he called millions of americans his domestic enemies. the president s rant rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office. i did not recognize the man at