ahead of the november elections here in 2022. rachel: karl, is kayleigh right a way to pivot talk about voting rights as a way to deflect of all the failures happening under the biden administration. well, i think there is a great deal of accuracy in that i think it goes a little bit further than that though. i think part of this is they do want to rally the democratic base. so even though they know they can t pass either two of these bills. they want to demonstrate they re pushing hard for it so they keep enthusiasm in the african-american community up. the other thing though is listen to the speech itself today. i mean, first of all, we had january 6th. and january 6th was a stain on our country. but there is not a single thing in either one of these otwo proposed laws that has anything to do with january 6th. there are enough tools on the available to the federal government to deal with the people who broke into the capitol and assaulted 140 police
they do? talk about voting rights and raming that home because democracy is at peril. people are saying, you are not in touch with what we re going through right now and seem we need to change power in washington and that will probably happen in november when republicans most certainly take back the house and probably take back the senate. carley: one issue is covid-19. the head of the largest teachers union randi weingarten tsdz to end masking, there needs to be no transmission in schools. unrealistic, i m sure you have thoughts on this one joe: oh, boy. zero transmission? covid is not going away, it will become endemic, the pandemic part is coming to an understand. zero transmission is like saying zero transmission of the flu.
john lewis advancement act hasn t even really been written in the house or senate. so there s not a lot of legislative push. civil rights leaders spoke with him for hour and 40 minutes, not supposed to be that long, we were all waiting. when they came out said they know they have to take to the streets and build a public campaign. what was interesting, they reminded a lot of us of the 60s. said when it looked dire, when civil rights, asking for civil rights, kept pushing and pushing and something happened. that is what they re bringing to the table. president biden, he s going to on tuesday talk about voting rights. he s been promising to do something like this for a few weeks like you said at the top here. one thing i talked to some of the leaders in the meeting with them, they want to see what they saw when he was selling his infrastructure plan. go state to state to state, not just go to philadelphia, the
country but let s take democratic leaders understand the perilous point we are at in this country for our democracy. basically we have a of the minority in washington and around the country. texas is a perfect example. all of these policies we talked about are opposed by the vast majority of texans but they re happening anyway. in the end i think they have to make it a priority. i have doubts about it. i mean the hypocrisy to be honest of somebody like senator sinema or somebody like senator manchin who talk about voting rights and how important it is in civil rights and let s celebrate somebody on this day and all of that but, oh, by the way, i m going to keep the filibuster which keeps all of those things from being preserved and reassured in this country. i think my view on this all is in the end it will be about who comes out and votes in 2022. with all of the impediments that will be put into place, and i don t expect much success in the courts in this with the supreme court
under them by president biden s quick decision to withdraw. there wasn t a lot of consultation in that. it s a good point. what do you see as we touched on this with shannon. but the connections between president biden s domestic agenda and any challenges he is facing here at home with this trip? in some ways, you can see maybe a little politics in how he is handling zelensky versus putin. we saw jake sullivan talk about voting rights. there s a national security poe comment to our infrastructure as well. that s something they are trying to hash out right now. yeah. this always happens, as shannon made that point. whatever is happening at home follows the president overseas. i would not be at all surprised to see president biden get questions about infrastructure and joe manchin while he is in a couple of foreign capitals. he will the president will