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>>> STATES ARE NOT ENGAGING IN
TRYING TO SUPPRESS VOTERS
WHATSOEVER.
THIS IS CLEARLY AN EFFORT BY ONE
PARTY TO REWRITE THE RULES OF
OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM.
>> WOW, THAT WAS MINORITY LEADER
MITCH McCONNELL, DISMISSING
DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION THAT
WOULD ROLL BACK DRA CONE ON
LEGISLATION THAT WOULD SWEEPING
THROUGH REPUBLICAN LIRPGTS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
APPARENTLY THE KENTUCKY SENATOR
SPENT SO MUCH TIME IN HIS CELL
THAT HE MISSED THE 253 BUILTS IN
STATES.
TARGETING BLACK BROWN AND AAPI
VOTE HE IS THAT THE GQP HAS
CONTROL.
MITCH’S WILLFUL IGNORANCE OF THE
FACT OF THE RECURRING THEME.
THIS NATIVE SHEEVLD, ALABAMA
BORN IN THE 1940s AS ADDISON
MITCHELL McCONNELL JUNIOR FAMED
THE FILIBUSTER HAS NO RACIAL
HISTORY.
REPUBLICAN COHORTS ARE MOUNTING
A FACT-FREE CAMPAIGN AGAINST A
NUMBER OF POPULAR PIECES OF
LEGISLATION, INCLUDING THE FOR
THE PEOPLE ACT.
WHICH WOULD EXPAND VOTING RIGHTS
APPEAR ROLL BACK THE REPRESSIVE
MEASURES THAT FELLOW REPUBLICANS
ARE PASSING IN STATES.
TODAY THE SENATE HELD THE FIRST
HEARING TO ASSESS THE DMAKTS
DEMOCRATS PREEMINENT PIECE OF
LEGISLATION.
ERIC HOLDER WHO NOW LEADS THE
DEMOCRATIC REDIRECTING
INITIATIVE APPEARED BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE.
>> IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS
THE RIGHT TIME, THIS IS THE
RIGHT ACT.
DEALING AS I SAID WITH THAT --
THAT UNHOLY TRINITIY OF VOTER
SUPPRESSION, DARK MONEY AND
GERRYMANDERING, THESE ARE ALL
THINGS HANDLED BY THIS ACT AND
MAKE OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM MORE
FAIR, MORE RESPONSIVE AND MORE
AVAILABLE TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.
AND THAT’S WHY I THINK THIS BILL
SHOULD BE PASSED.
>> REPUBLICANS WHO ARE BETTER AT
CUTTING TAXES FOR THE RICH THAN
THEY ARE AT PASSING MEANINGFUL
LEGISLATION FOR THE WORKING
CLASS CALLED THIS BILL A POWER
GRAP.
THEY ARE GETTING BACKUP FROM
WEST VIRGINIA KMKT JOE MANCHIN
WHO TOLD REPORTERS HE DID NOT
WANT TO PASS VOTING LEGISLATION
ALONG PARTY LINES.
DESPITE THE MONTHPLACE POSSIBLE
CITIZENENS PEOPLE CLOSE TO
PRESIDENT BIDEN ARE TELLING AXE
OH YOS THAT HE IS FEELING
BULLISH WHAT HE CAN ACCOMPLISH
AND FULLY PREPARED TO SUPPORT
THE DASHING OF THE SENATE’S
FILIBUSTER RULE TO ALLOW
DYNAMICS TO PASS TROPHY
LEGISLATION FOR HIS PARTY.
DIG DURBIN THE VOTE COUNTER FOR
THE DEMOCRATS HAD THIS WARNING
TO THE CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS
LIKE MANCHIN SKEPTICAL OF
UNDOING THE JIM CROW FILIBUSTER
MOST PROMINENTLY USED TO STOP
VOTING RIGHTS FOR BLACK
AMERICANS AND THEY’RE TRYING TO
CONVINCE HIM TO HELP PASS IN
LEGISLATION SAID DURBIN.
SHOW ME THE SENATE CAN OPERATE
WITH THE BILL BUSTER AND DO
THINGS THAT MAKE THE U.S. A
BETTER MEDIATION NATION.
SHOW MEAN JOINING ME IS ERIC
HOLDER CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC REDIRECTING
COMMITTEE.
GREAT TO SEE YOU GENERAL HOLDER.
>> HELLO, JOY.
>> GREAT TO SEE YOU.
LET’S START WITH MYTHS.
MITCH McCONNELL CLAIMS THAT THE
FILIBUSTER HAS NO RACIST
HISTORY.
YOUR THOUGHTS.
>> WELL, THE FILIBUSTER WAS USED
THROUGHOUT THE 20th CENTURY TO
FRUSTRATE THE PASSAGE OF CIVIL
RIGHTS BILLS.
I MEAN, THAT FIRST AND FOREMOST.
YOU HAD TO GET PAST A HUE IN
MUNGOUS FILIBUSTER IN 1964 TO
GET THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL IN
PLACE.
SAME THING WITH THE VOTING
RIGHTS ACT IN 1965 BUT YOU CAN
GO TO EARLIER VERSIONS WORE
WHERE SOUTHERN SENATORS,
DEMOCRATS TO BE FAIR TO
FILIBUSTERED TO MAKE SURE THAT
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILLS DID NOT
BECOME THE LAW OF THE LAND.
>> DIXIE KRATZ TO BE SPECIFIC.
AND IT IS INTERESTING THAT THAT
SORT OF FACTION HAS MOVED RIGHT
ON INTO THE PARTY OF LINCOLN.
WHAT’S ALSO INTERESTING IS THAT
THERE ARE STILL SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATS AND CONSERVATIVE
DEMOCRATS WHO ARE STILL CLINGING
TO THE FILIBUSTER, A VERY BAD
OLD THING FROM THE OLD
DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS YOU POINT
OUT.
PEOPLE LIKE JOE MANCHIN.
THERE WAS THIS QUOTE THAT JOE
BIDEN IS FEELING THE RUSH OF
HISTORY.
HE FEELS LIKE HE CAN PASS A LOT
OF IMPORTANT LEGISLATION
INCLUDING THIS BILL WHICH IS NOW
SR 1, GOT A JOHN LOUIS VOTING
RIGHTS ACT, ET CETERA.
YOU KNOW JOE BIDEN VERY WELL.
WORKED WITH HIM.
HOW CAN HE FEEL THAT OPTIMISTIC
WITH PEOPLE LIKE JOE MARGIN
STILL CLINGING TO THE
FILIBUSTER?
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT’S
EARLY IN THE GAME.
AND AT THIS POINT WE’RE TALKING
ABOUT THE FILIBUSTER IN SOME
WAYS.
IN A VACUUM.
I THINK ONCE SOME OF THIS
LEGISLATION IS ACTUALLY PASSED
BY THE SENATE, YOU KNOW, S 1, HR
4, THE JOHN LOUIS VOTING
ADVANCEMENT BILL, PERHAPS THE
MINIMUM WAGE, WHEN IT BECOMES
SOMETHING THAT IS CONCRETE,
SOMETHING THAT’S TANGIBLE.
AND THEN THE QUESTION IS ARE YOU
IN FAVOR OF THE FILIBUSTER OR DO
YOU WANT TO DO THAT WHICH IS
MORALLY RIGHT AND ALSO
POLITICALLY POPULAR?
THAT IS WHEN I THINK WE WILL I
SAID FOR A THE TRUE TEST.
IT DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO
DO AWAY WITH THE FILIBUSTER.
IT MAY BE YOU CARVE OUT PARTS OF
THE FILIBUSTER SO THAT THIS
LEGISLATION CAN IN FACT BE
PASSED.
SO I THINK AS I SAID, PRESSURE
NEEDS TO BE PLACED.
BUT WE’RE NOT NEAR THE END OF
THE GAME AT THIS POINT.
>> BUT WE ARE AT THE POINT IN
THE GAME WHEN JOE MARGIN IS
SAYING HE WILL NOT ALLOW
ANYTHING TO PASS UNLESS
REPUBLICANS ARE ON THE BILL.
DO YOU BELIEVE HAVING DEALT WITH
THESE -- A LOT OF THE SAME
SENATORS THAT THERE ARE TEN
REPUBLICANS WHO WOULD VOTE FOR A
BILL THAT WOULD MAKE IT EASIER
TO VOTE, BECAUSE DEMOGRAPHICALLY
IF MORE PEOPLE CAN VOTE MORE
PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE COMING
ONLINE AS VOTERS, AND THEY DON’T
DO SO WELL WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR.
THERE IS NO POLITICAL INTEREST
FOR THEM TO LET MORE PEOPLE
VOTE.
DO YOU BELIEVE THERE ARE TEN
REPUBLICANS WHO WOULD IN ANY
UNIVERSE THAT WE LIVE IN VOTE
FOR SR 1?
NO.
AND LET ME BE CLEAR WHEN I SAY
PRESSURE WILL BE BROUGHT TO BEAR
I MEAN ON DEMOCRATS NOT ON
REPUBLICANS.
THEY MADE THE DETERMINATION THAT
THEY CAN’T WIN ELECTIONS WHERE
MORE PEOPLE VOTE.
THEY MADE A DETERMINATION WHAT
THEY’RE GOING TO DO IS TO TRY TO
CHANGE THE RULES.
THEY ARE HAPPY BEING A MINORITY
PARTY THAT EXERCISES MAJORITY
POWER.
AND THEY ARE OKAY WITH THAT.
AND SO -- I DON’T EXPECT ANY
PRESSURE TO BE BROUGHT ON
REPUBLICANS SUFFICIENT TO GET
TEN REPUBLICANS TO VOTE FOR ANY
OF THIS -- THIS VOTE REFORM
LEGISLATION.
>> YEAH, LET ME LISTEN TO ONE OF
THOSE REPUBLICANS HERE IS TED
CRUZ MAKING HIS ARGUMENT AGAINST
THE LAW, AGAINST THE FOR THE
PEOPLE ACT.
>> THIS BILL IS THE SINGLE MOST
DANGEROUS BILL IN COMMITTEE HAS
EVER CONSIDERED.
THIS BILL IS DESIGNED TO CORRUPT
THE ELECTION PROCESS PERMANENTLY
AND IT IS A BRAZEN AND SHAMELESS
POWER GRAP BY DEMOCRATS.
THEY DO THIS BY INSTITUTING A
BILL THAT WILL PROMOTE
WIDESPREAD FRAUD AND ILLEGAL
VOTING.
APPARENTLY THE DEMOCRATS HAVE
DETERMINED THAT IF MILLIONS OF
ILLEGAL ALIENS GET TO VOTE, IF
MILLIONS OF CRIMINALS GET TO
VOTE THAT THAT WILL BENEFIT
DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY
UNDERSTAND THAT CRIMINALS AND
ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE MUCH, MUCH
LIKELY TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS.
>> GIVEN THE FACT THAT TED CRUZ
IS A MAN OF COLOR THIS IS
PROBABLY THE MOST IRONIC
PROWHITE SUPREMACIST ARGUMENT I
HEARD ABOUT VOTING.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE FACT
THAT SOMEONE LIKE TED CRUZ
SOMEONE IN HIS OWN FAMILY
INCLUDES PEOPLE OF COLOR FROM A
LATINO COUNTRY WOULD BOLDLY MAKE
THE ARGUMENT THAT THE PEOPLE OF
COLOR WHO MIGHT BE ALLOWED TO
VOTE ARE BASICALLY JUST A BUNCH
OF CRIMINALS AND THAT THE ONLY
REASON DEMOCRATS WANT PEOPLE TO
VOTE IS THAT THEY THINK THEY’RE
GOING TO HANDOUT VOTING CARDS TO
THE UNDOCUMENTED, WHO BY THE WAY
IF THEY BECOME CITIZENS THEY
SHALL BE ABLE TO VOTE IF THEY’RE
CITIZENS, RIGHT?
>> JOY, THIS IS ALL ABOUT POWER.
IT’S ALL ABOUT POWER.
.
THE MAINTENANCE, THE RETENTION
OF POWER.
THE REPUBLICANS UNDERSTAND THE
DEMOGRAPHICS OF CHANGING, THAT
THE IDEOLOGY OF THE NATION IS
CHANGING AND MOVING AWAY FROM
THEM.
AND THEY’RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE
THEIR PROGRAMS THEY’RE NOT GOING
TO CHANGE THEIR POLICY
PERSPECTIVES.
AND SO THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH
THEY CAN STAY COMPETITIVE IN THE
GAME IS TO SOMEHOW FRUSTRATE THE
DESIRES OF PEOPLE TO VOTE.
PEOPLE OF COLOR.
PRIMARILY.
AND SO THAT’S WHAT HE IS TALKING
ABOUT.
THEY’LL TRY TO SAY IT’S ABOUT
VOTING FRAUD.
THEY’VE BEEN SAYING THIS STUFF
ABOUT VOTER FRAUD FOR DECADES
NOW WITHOUT ANY PROOF THAT THERE
IS ANY WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD.
STUDY AFTER STUDY HAS SHOWN THAT
TO BE A FALSE CLAIM.
NEVERTHELESS, IT’S THE
FOUNDATION FOR ALL THAT THEY TRY
TO DO.
THEY SAY THAT.
BUT THE REALITY IS THEY ARE JUST
GOING TO TRY TO MAINTAIN HOLD ON
TO POWER.
>> YEAH, I MEAN I WON’T EVEN
PLAY BUT CINDY HIDE SMITH OF
MISSISSIPPI SAID SHE HAD SHE
WOULD BE FRONT ROE LYNCHING THAT
SUNDAY VOTE SOMETHING WRONG
BECAUSE SUNDAY IS THE SABBATH.
FORGETTING SUNDAY IS THE SAP
SABBATH FOR JEWISH FOLKS.
THE ARGUMENT ARE SO ABSURD AT
THIS POINT.
HAVE YOU HAD A CONVERSATION
YOURSELF WITH JOE MANCHIN OR
WITH SOME OF THE OTHER
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE
LITERALLY CLINGING TO THE
FILIBUSTER, SEEMINGLY THEY CARE
MORE ABOUT THE FILIBUSTER AND
MAINTAINING IT, THIS OLD JIM
CROW THING THAN THEY DO ABOUT
DEMOCRACY ON VOTING OR ANYTHING
ELSE.
>> THAT’S THE QUESTION THAT WILL
HAVE TO BE POSED.
I THINK AT AT LATER TIME.
AND NOT FAR FROM NOW.
DO YOU CARE MORE ABOUT THE
FILIBUSTER OR DO YOU CARE MORE
ABOUT DEMOCRACY PROTECTION?
THAT REALLY IS THE QUESTION.
AND MY HOPE WILL BE -- AND I
THINK THE PRESSURE WILL BE
BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THOSE WHO SAY
THEY DON’T WANT TO DO SOMETHING
WITH THE FILIBUSTER, THAT THERE
WILL BE A PRICE TO PAY.
AND THAT IS JUST NOT SOMETHING
THAT I THINK DEMOCRATIC SENATORS
ULTIMATELY -- ULTIMATELY WILL
FOLLOW.
THAT’S AT LEAST MY HOPE.
BUT AS I SAID, THE PRESSURE IS