just lose that race but the entire congress for joe biden by dragging him to the left and convincing him he could be a modern f.d.r. john: pivot to abortion and the leak out of the supreme court, we don t know what the final opinion is, but the february draft the supreme court is on track to repeal roe vs. wade. chuck schumer will put a bill on the floor in the senate to protect a woman s right from abortion from a federal perspective, it s not going to pass, sinema and manchin don t want to nuke the filibuster. and joe biden is pro life. this is all political posturing. i don t understand why democrats think it s good political posturing for them. so you have the polls and they say 60% or so of the american people oppose overturning row v.
here between trying to literally overturn an election putting forward legislation to protect the vote, do you feel that president biden is in position where republicans are going to argue he s maybe not the moderate he campaigned on in his first election? yes, that is exactly what is happening. that is exactly what s going to happen over the next several months as they go to the midterms. they have seen the president s approval rating has fallen over the course of his presidency and he lost support from some of the moderate voters, independent voters, in part because of his policies, in part because of the fact we re still dealing with the coronavirus crisis. but a lot of these republicans are saying biden is catering to a small subset in office, he s focusing on the less and littles and pushing forth rhetoric that pushes away suburban voters who don t like hearing if you don t support some of these voting right changes, you re on the
people try to take advantage of the fact that some americans aren t comfortable with the kind of conversations and changes that are being sought and when it comes to things like critical race theory, that has been exploited, the idea that people are learning about the origins of the country and some of the sins of the past has been exploited by a number of people who wanted to take political advantage of the fact that they see that there can be political benefits from exploiting some of the changes that have taken place and some of the concerns out there among parents and among people that see change happening very quickly. so we are seeing a backlash. we are seeing the kinds of divisions that king worried about and the kinds of problems that make it very difficult for there to be lasting change and we haven t seen the kind of change that people were talking about in the aftermath of george floyd s death, when we thought there would be policing changes, thought there would be more conv
so that will fail and then they re going to try to tie to break the senate rules and that s going to fail because sinema and manchin don t really support it. and he s going to force other members to walk the plank, breaking the filibuster openly knowing it s 23409 going to work. it shows he s in a tough spot right now. he doesn t have a lot of options. he himself is up for re-election this year. he s under a lot of pressure to show the case. the base. and they re trying to exhaust options before they move ahead with something more modest that will get the support of republicans. i think that would be the strategic play perhaps is show it s going to fail, it has to fail and seung min, there s talk of several groups, frankly, of senators working on more modest
sides. there are moderates, sench riss who say maybe you use the term give it a haircut. a lot of progressives say it s too small. can the democrats, senator schumer s challenge this week. then it moves over to speaker pelosi. schumer has the reconciliation part. biden is the leader of the party. can they figure this out? i wouldn t typically vote against pelosi. we know she s good at getting her caucus in line. but it is going to be tricky. she is going to have moderates that want her to call them back from recess when this senate bill passes. they want to vote on it first. they don t they also like manchin don t want to see it tethered to the reckon stilluation bill. but pelosi has said that she is committed to not passing it before reconciliation. how she maneuvers or uses the august recess to her advantage is something that we re going to have to keep an eye on. a key point, one of the ways you make the progressives happy is show them you re trying on priorities.