saying. watch this. if my colleague tries to break the senate to silence their millions of americans we will wake their voices heard in this chamber in ways that are more inconvenient for the majority and this white house than what anybody has seen in living memory. he is promising to go scorched earth. so what do you say to that? well, his strategy has already been delay and obstruct. he says that obstruction has a good name when it means that democrats can t get things done. it strengthens his case for republicans to take power. this type of threat should inspire us to act to restore the functionality to the senate, and if there s further obstruction to knock that obstruction down as well. we should not be cowed or intimidated by this thug who has been attacking the very foundation of our democracy, supporting these efforts around the country to keep people from
way forward may be to get rid of the filibuster for voting rights. this is a big deal. this is all day i have been saying this is the big story of the day, that someone who loves the senate and who has seven reference for the center and the work that people do there, changing his stance on the filibuster. it is a really big deal. that is the story. president biden clearly saying that he supports getting rid of the filibuster to protect voting rights. i believe the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bill. debate them. vote. let the majority prevail! if that bear minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the senate rules including getting rid of the filibuster for this! so it did take him some time to get to that point, right, to finally get to this point, decades even. i will explain. remember when do you remember when president biden told me this?
voting, to gerrymander the house of representatives beyond recognition, destroying the concept of equal representation, and supporting billionaires buying elections. so all three of those things are in this bill. and, plus, prevention of future acts attacking democracy through the john lewis act. senator. and so we have to get both done. senator, before i let you go, because i have a packed show here, but i have to ask you, why are democrats just getting around to this? people who have been asking for it, and many of the people who helped to propel this president into office have been saying, you got to do voting rights. it was a promise. it was one of the main reasons we went to the polls to vote for you. not just joe biden but also for other democrats. why are democrats being so timid about this? why are they just getting around to this, to the fundamental right, probably the number one fundamental right that we have in this country? what is going on?
official, a republican in this state? he said, quote, i just want to find 11,780 votes. pray god, he didn t say that point. he didn t say, count the votes. he said, find votes that he needed to win. he failed because of the courageous officials, democrats, republicans, who did their duty and upheld the law. but with this new law in georgia, his loyalists will be placed in charge of state elections. voting rights are under assault. let me say it again. voting rights are under assault. our democracy is in peril. those are both true. but the truth is as well that senate republicans are refusing even to debate it, refusing even to talk about it. and the president who served in the senate for 36 years now finally admitting that the only
congratulations to the dogs. my colleague kaitlan collins is not in a happy place today as alabama roll, crimson tide. sorry, kaitlan. not really though. this is don lemon tonight. look, it is the most precious right we have in our democracy, let s be honest, a right countless americans have fought and died for, the right to vote. i have been talking to you about this for the last year or so now, maybe almost two years. president joe biden saying that he is tired of being quiet about it. finally saying that. the president pushing voting rights as his answer to the attack on the capitol on january 6th and explicitly taking on his predecessor whose big lie of bogus voter fraud is metastasizing into assault on voting rights all across this country. remember what the defeetat o the former president said to the highest ranking election