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senator without republicans on board
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that leaves you no option but to take
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the so-called nuclear option which to
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put into historical context you and
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harry reid took in 2013 to get obama
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appointees through and mitch mcconnell
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who's now acting like a
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filibuster-busting
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virgin took in 2017 to get supreme court
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nominees approved so but without your
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fellow democrats joe manchin and
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christian cinema
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who have been adamant and saying they
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won't support that what can you do do
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you think they're bluffing can you agree
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on something are you setting democrats
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up for a disappointment what's what's
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the plan b here
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okay well and at first we have to make
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this fight i think everyone would agree
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that when they're trying to take away
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voting rights and though the ones i
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mentioned on on the last segment were
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just a few you have to do something so
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we're working very hard trying to
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persuade joe manchin and kirsten cinema
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therefore the two bills we want to put
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up they just say we shouldn't change the
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senate rules to do it but as i mentioned
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the senate rules have been changed in
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the past even by robert byrd who was joe
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manchin's predecessor and mentor when
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it's needed and we can change the rules
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um to allow this to happen so we're
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trying to persuade manchin and cinema to
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do that because it's so important
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ideally it would be great if republicans
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would go along as they used to in the
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past as i mentioned under reagan in the
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bushes but they're not and we have no
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choice can we persuade them we're
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working very hard we met last night till
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uh the in the evening hours we're
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talking to them on a regular basis and
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is it an uphill fight yes but are we
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fighting as hard as we can yes must we
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try to do everything we can because this
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is so important absolutely you heard
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what whoopi said uh there are a lot
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millions of americans who feel just like
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she does
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senator in addition to voting rights uh
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democrats have so far failed to deliver
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on a a number of other promises things
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like build back better police reform
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humane immigration policies student loan
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forgiveness with democrats running the
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white house and both chambers of
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congress why haven't you been able to
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get any of this done
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well some of it we have gotten done we
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did do the arp bill which was probably
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the most significant progressive piece
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of legislation
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since the great society in 50 years and
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we got that done with 50 votes we need
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to get every democrat and it's a broad
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caucus running from bernie sanders to
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joe manchin on board we work very hard
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to do it so far we've gotten people on
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board on the major bills that have come
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before us but we're working very hard on
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voting rights and bbb
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the build back better bill which deals
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with so many important things like child
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care and climate and pre-k and we're
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working very hard to get everyone on
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board it's a very tough road to hoe when
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you have 50 votes and any one senator
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democrat who dissents
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can pull it down if you get no
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republicans and unfortunately this year
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the republicans under donald trump's
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leadership he's he just says he wants
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the country he wants the administration
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to fail so he can come back and try to
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run again god forbid and so we have to
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do it just ourselves that makes it
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harder but we keep fighting and so far
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we've had some good successes
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senator the cdc has been under fire in
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uh recent weeks forget giving shifting
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and sometimes confusing information
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regarding covid guidelines for things
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like isolation and testing as the
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omicron variant continues to lead to
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record numbers of cases and
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hospitalizations
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two years into the pandemic are you
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concerned about there being a
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credibility crisis among federal health
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agencies and do you maintain full
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confidence in what's coming out of the
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cdc
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yeah well look you first the number one
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thing coming out of the cdc is something
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that i totally agree with it is the most
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important thing that we can do which is
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get people vaccinated get your two
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vaccines and get the booster and some
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people say well i don't care if i get a
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covert i'll get covered but what happens
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is when you're not vaccinated you can
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help breed new variants of the covid
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they spread around among the
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unvaccinated population so number one
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vaccinations boosters the whole if the
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whole country had it this omicron would
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have been a lot less severe and there
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would be very little chance or much less
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chance of new variants coming in with
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the same virulence so that's number one
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and number two look americans should
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follow the science we have all kinds of
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people on the internet who have no
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scientific background no training who
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say don't get vaccinated don't do this
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don't do that follow the science the
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science is very important to follow and
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that's what i think we should all do
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so thank you senator schumer remind them
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we want the right to vote as americans
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that's our right our birthright and we
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expect you all to make it happen
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