who is looking to capitalize on democrat s position here. i want to play a little bit of what he had to say, because i want your reaction to it. there s no shortage of real crises democrats might consider tackling. the worst inflation in 40 years, a seemingly endless pandemic, soaring homicides. a border crisis, and russia flirting with war in europe. i can already predict that you will disagree with the premise of that question, but do you have or that statement from senator mcconnell, do you have any concern about the way that americans are seeing this back and forth in this discussion over the rules change? well, you know, what i would tell americans is, you know, we talk about gun violence. we could have passed so many pieces of gun legislation, such as ending the gun show loophole
also up in 2022, we need to elect more democrats, and have more than just 50 plus one with the vice president being the 51st vote. we can get to 53 democrats in the senate, we could actually pass this without the addition of senator sinema and manchin. we are a big tent, a big umbrella on the democratic side. there s lots of different voices. so, you know, one of the things that we need to, as we push and change the filibuster rules to restore it, so that we can pass voting rights protection, we should not stop working on the ground to make sure that we do have the voter turnout, so we can elect more democrats to office, so we can eventually pass these laws and protect the right of americans to vote. in my conversations with democrats over i don t know, let s say the past week. we have heard and i continue to hear the blame being placed squarely on the shoulders of republicans here. which we listen, we said at the top of the show, we ll say it again, republicans unanimously oppos
conference, the covid pandemic, the koethe virus kill americans and threatening so many people s lives, that that was the number one priority then and it s the number one priority now. and now you really have a biden administration that has had months and months and months to work on this issue and they have gotten a lot of people vaccinated in this country. they were able to build up this robust engine of people around the country, health care workers and others, to really infuse our country with information about why this pandemic was so dangerous and why people need to get vaccinated. but he s also confronting the political dynamics of this. and that is something that the president has not really been able to crack. it s the idea that party affiliation continues to be one of the key things that is the difference between whether or not you re vaccinated or not vaccinated. and add to that the fact that the president came into office, saying that he was going to have most the team wi
what does that mean? that means their capacity, even though they have a brand-new facility for creating and making and sending out tests, they are a little bit backlogged. plus, they re having issues with the supply chain. truckers and organizing the trucks to come in and out fast enough to satisfy all of the demand for the tests, so you can get them online, in the store, or on the website. all of that is backed up. so the biden administration certainly have to answer for the continual supply chain challenges facing so many consumers across the country, hallie. great point, joling. we ve talked plenty about voting rights and what this mean as we have this split screen moment on capitol hill. but there are a number of other things that the biden administration would like to get done before the midterms and certainly after. that s absolutely right. and this issue of inflation that everyone is talking about. we know that the president will probably address as well today, is it not onl
good afternoon to you. it s good to be on. thanks for covering this. there has opinion a lot of buildup for both the voting rights package. in part driven by what we re seeing on the state level. as it relates to mostly republican state legislatures taking steps to make it tougher to vote. do you see this on the federal level? this vote tonight is the end of the road for both of those issues, at least until after the midterms, realistically? i don t see this as the end of the road, at all. and it s not likely that senators manchin and sinema will vote with us. and if they don t, this will fail tonight. we need to keep trying. i think of all the time that martin luther king fought for voting rights. and the first skirmishes were not the final skirmishes. this is just too important. it s too important that we guarantee the rights of all americans to vote. and we shouldn t let a senate rule stop us from doing that. senator sanders, one of your colleagues, said he would consider su