hey, rachel, biden is coming strong off his speech january 6. if he s unable to rally democrats behind him today with the infrastructure agenda, human infrastructure agenda stalled in congress, what comes next for him? that s a good question. i m not sure yet. i mean, this is stalled and also the build back better right now, joe manchin has walked away from the table. there s been an effort to get former president barack obama, bill clinton also former staff to joe manchin to plead with him privately to get him back to the negotiating table. it hasn t worked yet. president biden is in big trouble right now and i think there are questions about what they can do before the midterms. all right, author of politico playbook. thank you so much, rachel. thanks. thanks so much. all right, now to this. an indiana state senator backtracking after saying teachers should be, quote, impartial when teaching about nazism. here s what republican scott baldwin initially said during a hearing
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advancement act. reporter: so there was a summary from psaki. two things, quite a few many, aren t clear. first is whether president biden s speech and his actions today will actually bring over senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. we know they are currently opposed to any filibuster change rules. it is unclear whether president biden s actions today, depending on how far he goes, actually kind of quells that criticism and satisfies advocates. yesterday when organizations in atlanta announced this kind of boycott they re going on, they said things like president biden should stay in d.c. they don t need him in georgia. they need him in d.c. he should go to the senate, really, and try to work that vote. what they need in georgia is voting rights and action. i spoke to latasha brown who is co-founder of black voters matter, a part of that coalition of groups, and she said, what i want to see from the president is a commitment, a plan going
democrats are preparing to advance two new voting bills that only have a chance at passing if senate filibuster rules are weakened. a step biden says he would endorse. we have the first excerpts from president biden s speech in which he calls the next few days a turning point for the nation. he will say, we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over in justice. i know where i stand. i will not yield. i will not flinch. i will defend your right to vote, and our democracy against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and so the question is where will the institution of the united states stand? all right. it is time for three questions in three minutes on this subject. let s bring in cnn political analyst and coauthor of politico rachel. nice to see you. who is president biden going to be speaking to mostly today? democratic voters of color or manchin and sinema? i think it s a little of all three. the democrats base in