Welcome to Prime Time weekend im Nicole Wallace lets get to the weeks top stories. It is up to us to remember what kamalas mother told her. Dont just sit around and complain. Do something. So, if they lie about her, and they will, we got to Do Something. If we see a bad poll and we will, we got to put down that phone and, Do Something. If we start feeling tired, if we start feeling that dread creeping back in we got to pick ourselves up, throw water on our face and what . Do something. Hi, again, everyone, it is 5 00 in new york. Answering that powerful message from his wife, former President Barack Obama will indeed, Do Something as he takes his Star Power to the Campaign Trail next Week Campaigning for Kamala Harris in pittsburgh. The event in the thursday will be the first one in the election as a Battleground State super surrogate. According to a Harris Campaign Official it will launch a larger effort on his part as he will ramp up his campaigning for harris in the final stretch of
well, you all just made us smarter this morning. governor, senator, monica, robert, thank you so much. we re going to leave it there and i mentioned it before. the gridlock over president biden s agenda could actually be breaking up maybe today. a house vote on those two bills, possibly today, maybe tomorrow. it will be good to see. leigh ann caldwell joins us. eugene daniels also with us, the coauthor of politico play look. leigh ann, we ve heard this before. is this groundhog day or is something actually happening? reporter: they ve missed so many deadlines, eventually you have to visit hit one of them. now, in all seriousness, there is, i m told, a growing frustration among all members that something just needs to get done, that they need to wrap this up. yet, in a closed door caucus meeting, speaker pelosi suggested to her members that
caucus, senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, who support the filibuster. and democrats need them on board if they re to reform it in any way. in a new opinion piece in the washington post, greg sargent and paul waldman pose a question to joe manchin regarding his republican colleagues. they write this. the freedom to vote act was for all intents and purposes manchin s own bill. he demanded the changes that made it less ambitious than the for the people act, championed by progressives. no republican voted for this. manchin is committed to voting rights legislation. he s also committed to the idea that it must be bipartisan. what will manchin do with what republicans themselves have told him about the prospects for said bipartisanship? democrats only option to safeguard our democracy, filibuster reform, is where we start this hour. eugene daniels is here, a white house reporter for politico, the coauthor of politico s play look and an msnbc contributor. also joining us, alecsy m