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Chalian, our cnn political director and the host of a wonderful podcast called the cnn political briefing. okay. so it s interesting you talk to some democrats and they say, yes, joe biden is doing what he needs to do when it comes to voting rights. but you re hearing it from texas democrats who say this needs to be more elevated, more national. is he doing enough? what you re seeing is sort of a patchwork state by state which is why you see democrats crying out for federal help. now the president has endorsed and supported this bill that passed the house called hr-1 for the people act. and its senate companion bill. the votes aren t there for it. this is not something that can be done through the budget reconciliation where you can do it with just democrats only. there s only two approaches here. get ten republicans on board, and it s like the top bill republicans are opposing this cycle. that s not going to happen. or this is going to create the fight over the filibuster and ....
Medicare for all. called democracy. i disagree with joe. i do not think a super pac is healthy for american democracy. all right? david chalian, our cnn political director. david, does this issue come back to bite the former vice president among primary voters or do they even care? well, some voters care although i imagine that the voters that care most about this might already be sanders or warren supporters. not necessarily, i don t think biden probably will lose support over this, but come back to haunt him is the more pertinent question, brooke. it will. is. julian castro sending out funding emails on this. warren and sanders both have been out there trying to make hay of this. this will be a contrast and in a democratic nomination field running in a democratic primary a lot of agreement on a lot of ....
Peachment, how many different areas of presidential misconduct they want to go in. back to the significance of the man who wants to be the next president and found himself in the middle of all of this saying to the president if he doesn t comply they should begin these impeachment proceedings. david chalian, our cnn political director. david, you were listening to his every word. what did you think? yeah. well, the visual first of all, right? it was all of those flags behind him. standing at the podium like that. a lectern was to comply a presidential image against what he thinks is clearly unpresidential behavior. the visual was interesting to me, brooke. also i would say this wasn t just a press conference on the fly or taking a question. this was a very formal statement from vice president biden. what i will also say is, we can t ignore the political reality that vice president biden is in. right? he understands that his closest ....
For himself, running the house benghazi investigation. remember this? madam secretary, i understand there are people, frankly, in both parties who have suggested that this investigation is about you. let me assure you, it is not. madam secretary, not a single member of this committee signed up to investigate you or your e-mail. we signed up to investigate and, therefore, honor the lives of four people that we sent into a dangerous country. my question is, how did you decide when to invoke a people in process and who just got to come straight to you? because it looked like certain things got straight to your inbox and the request for more security did not. yes. personal e-mail came to my personal account. work-related e-mail did as well. david chalian, our cnn political director. ....