joining our discussion now is democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. she is the chair of the senate rules committee which has oversight over federal elections. senator, i hope you were listening earlier because i was trying to do some staff work for you with latosha brown who knows georgia well and knows that election law well on what you should be aiming for in georgia. what do you hope to accomplish in georgia? >> well, i think she had some great advice, and that is to allow the people like helen, people like the voter, the veteran who stood in line for three hours, the state senator who fought this tooth and nail, let them do the talking, because what we're going to hear is the reason that helen butler was removed from her post, and that is because there is a concerted effort not only in georgia, but in texas, as you just heard from the state senator, to basically take away people's freedom to vote, lawrence. and one of the -- i think many of us are focused on the provision in the bill that said you can't give water to voters in line. of course, an

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>> senator amy klobuchar today chaired a u.s. senator hearing that was uprooted from washington and moved to georgia and held in georgia instead. this is the first time the rules committee and the senate has held a field hearing in 20 years. but senator klobuchar decided that the issue of voting rights was worth hitting the road for. to go understand in person what's new republican installed voting restrictions mean on the ground in states where they're being enacted. so the committee, at least the democrats on the committee who showed up, republicans didn't show up for this. but democrats on the committee heard testimony from georgia voters an election officials including helen butler who you just heard from their. she served on the board of elections on her rural county in georgia for more than ten years, until this year when a provision in georgia's restrictive new voting law allowed local republican officials to remove her from the board this month so they could take full partisan republican control over her counties election

amy klobuchar, thanks so much for joining us klobuchar. it looks like that bus might be coming your way and i saw that some of these people want to talk to it about you. what did you have to tell them as they arrive in washington? >> well, i have met with representatives when she was here last time and i believe that they're doing what's right. they are trying to stand up for whatever way possible for the freedom of people to vote and they're coming to the very place that they're supposed to find salvation. and i really actually like the trip johnson, along with vice president hunt -- protect civil rights in the sixties. when you have a conservative effort across the country, but in georgia and in other places, it doesn't stay have passed voter suppression's laws to limit people's freedom to vote. and you know the answer should be in washington, where the constitution clearly says that a new congress has the right to make or alter our federal elections. if i don't know it causes greater than doing that right now, this is the moment to get

thank you for coming back to "the sunday show" amy klobuchar. why are you in georgia? >> i'm chair of the senate rules committee, jonathan. we decided why stay in washington when all these bills are being enacted all over the country. over 400 have been introduced to mimic people's freedom to vote and i'm not sure everyone knows this, but over 20 of them, 28, to be exact, have actually become law. part-time focussed on not getting water and long lines we'll have a voter testify at the hearing on monday about what happened to him but the law is even worse than that. limits on one-off voting where, you know, senator warnock won their run yaf and now saying the runoff can only take 28 days. you can't vote on the weekends before it. and you have to register 29 days in advance. when there's a runoff, you can't register at any time during the runoff. just giving you a few of the examples. drop off limits, mail in ballot limits. that's the reason legislators in georgia and the two u.s. senators have bravely stood up against the law. that's why we're bringing the rules committ

do you think there's some teeth to what amy klobuchar is trying to do? >> i would hope so. i think the challenge, ali with all of these things is to get the definition right. one person's misinformation is another person's fact. i'm going to push back on brandy, i don't think facebook perceives it as their mission to get rid of disinformation. i think in fact what they're trying to do is create the appearance of getting rid of disinformation while leaving the infrastructure in place. remember what happened when they deplatformed alex jones. alex jones was a terrible promoter of conspiracy theories and he built up a grifting business on facebook. facebook deplatformed. how long did it take before there were hundreds of people competing for alex jones' attention, for the attention that he used to get who stepped forward and conspiracy theories continued to grow. in fact, qanon really exploded on facebook after alex jones had been removed, and so i think the core issue here is that these things are disinformation machines. they are hate speech machines and conspiracy theory ma

amy klobuchar spoke about her effort to get him onboard. i want you to listen. >> number one is to get republicans. i don't think that's going to happen. the second thing is, well, senator manchin has indicated some interest in the standing filibuster. that's one way to do it. we could have it focused on voting rights only. we are continuing to work with him and many others to get this done. >> i wonder if you agree. and if you are hopeful that he could move on this issue. >> well, of course. i'm hopeful that he will, you know. we have people pushing for voter legislation, including his colleagues. something that will allow voting rights legislation to get passed. you can draw that line because it all started with the big lie, trump's lie about massive voter fraud in the 2020 election. the pinnacle of that was on january 6th. we saw the disastrous consequences of that. and then, we saw more consequences in the spring, as state legislature after state legislature, passed legislation to suppress voting rights in texas, and georgia, and other

thank you, senator amy klobuchar. >> thank you. remember, we were together in atlanta just a while back during the presidential. i know you were covering all of the primaries, and it's bringing back strong them ris. so thank you. >> oh, yeah, we did a lot during all of the debates and also my work during that time. i remember. thank you. >>> joining me now is congressman jim clyburn of south carolina, the house majority whip. congressman, let me start with the filibuster. you've urged the president to publicly support a carve-out measure, rather than getting rid of the rule entirely. the filibuster has been changed in recent years, eliminated for judges and supreme court justices. what a carveout for voting rights look like, and how much leverage does the president have over senate rules? >> thank you very much for having me. a carveout would be simply to apply the reconciliation rules as you apply to the budget, apply that to voting. i am totally against the filibuster. but we had two democratic senators who say that they are not

>> well, if you really believe this is as important as amy klobuchar and other democrats say it is, of course this is what they should be doing. they should be shining a light on this issue in any way they can if it is an existential threat to our democracy. the question though is whether the prospects or the senate actually agreeing to do anything about the voter suppression that is taking place, and right now, those prospects are dim. we should be honest. unless manchin and sinema and perhaps others move on the question of what to do with the filibuster, there is no way that there are 60 votes in the senate for any sort of federal voting legislation. now, that was once the case with the civil rights act of 1965. so it is not as if, you know, it can never happen. but it is not happening right now. >> well, i mean that is really the problem, right? so we see state after state after state where there are problems and i was in austin on opening day of the session, not this special session, but the session, and all of the lawmakers, democratic lawmakers i talked to, said this is where our

senator amy klobuchar spoke to cnn this morning about her effort to get him onboard. i want you to take a listen. >> number one would be to get republicans. i personally don't think that's going to happen. so the second thing is to say, well, senator manchin has indicated some interest in the standing filibuster. that is one way to do it. we could have it focused on voting rights only. so we're continuing to work with him and many others to get this done. >> so first i wonder, secretary castro, if you agree with the senator's analysis there and if you are actually hopeful that he could move on this issue. >> well, of course i'm hopeful like everybody else is that he will, you know, and we have a lot of texas democrats up there right now, legislators who are pushing for voting rights legislation, and so many other people including senator manchin's colleagues. we do need to set aside the filibuster or do a carveout, something that will allow voting rights legislation to get passed. and you can draw that straight line, as you mentioned, alicia, because this all started

james clyburn, amy klobuchar and joyce beatty of ohio, who was arrested while protesting for voting rights. so as usual, it is a busy morning on "the sunday show." >> joyce beatty continuing in a long history of civil disowe disobedience. and jim clyburn saying just carve out voting rights from the filibuster. these are important discussions and i'm looking forward to watching. jonathan, thank you, my friend. "the sunday show" right after "velshi." >>> protecting voting rights, police reform, these might all be pipe dreams as long as that filibuster remains in place. we'll talk more about the threat that that antiquated senate rule poses to democracy, coming up next. next ♪ ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ i am robert strickler. i've been involved in communications in the media to deliver our technology as-a-service. for 45 years. i've been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen

i want you to take a listen to what senator amy klobuchar said today. >> one of the things that the legislators here, just like the texas legislators have said, is that they aren't going to let -- they are not going to be able to beat this concerted republican effort across the country on their own. they need salvation from washington. that's why we're going to georgia. it's why texas came to us. >> it sounds from that clip like senator klobuchar gets it. do you get the sense other lawmakers you have spoken to in d.c. share her sense of urgency? >> i do. i think it was important to come here to express, look, we're on the front lines of this fight in our state legislatures, and it was important for them to hear exactly what we're going through on the ground in texas. yes, i did take away that from our meetings, people understood, senators understood that the time to act is now, where we bought some time by leaving texas, but we can only hold the line for so long. we are the party in the minority, and ultimately, republicans will come back and have the majority vote to get the vote that they wan

. >>> and joining our discussion, now, is democratic senator, amy klobuchar, of minnesota. she is the chair of the senate rules committee, which has oversight over federal elections. senator klobuchar, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, lawrence. >> it -- it looks like that bus. i don't know. it might be coming your way. and some of those people might need to talk to you. >> i hope so. yes. >> what -- what do you have to tell them as they arrive in washington? >> well, i had met with the representative when she was here last time and i believe they're doing what's right. they are trying to stand up, in whatever way possible, for the freedom of people to vote. and they are coming to the very place that they're supposed to find salvation. and i really, actually, like that she brought up lyndon johnson, who along with vice president hubert humphrey, pushed hard to get legislation through to protect civil rights in the '60s. when you have a concerted effort, across the country, not just in texas, but in georgia and in other places, dozens, states have passed voter-s

on sunday rules committee chair woman amy klobuchar had a round table with stacey abrams hearing from voters about obstacles to the ballot. speaking with garrett haake before the hearing, klobuchar took aim at the ongoing complicity with the big lie. >> i believe it is even a bigger deal than party versus party. this is literally a quest to save our democracy because once you start disenfranchising people, then people lose faith. >> for her part, stacey abrams' voting rights organization, fair fight action, is launching 2.0 of its hot call summer campaign, asking supporters to call their senators every day until they take action to pass the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights restoration act. joining me is stacey abrams, author of "our time is now" which is available now in paperback. stacey, it is always great to talk with you. let's talk about what the field hearing that took place today means in practical terms. >> well, first and foremost it is an opportunity to once again set the record straight. there has been an attempt by opponents of s-1 to be, you know, eithe

this hour, stacey abrams and amy klobuchar will discuss how to fight the state's voting laws. >>> last night in washington, d.c. john lieu us was honored with a good trouble vigil. house speaker nancy pelosi calling it a fitting honor for the warrior of civil rights. tomorrow the texas democratic lawmakers will start turning up the heat on congress to pass federal voting legislation. the group of 50-plus lawmakers are planning weeklong events, all while three members remain in isolation after testing positive for covid-19. vaughn hillyard picks up the story. >> reporter: those those members have put the capitol here in standstill, trying to prolong the timetable in which those election measures they say are voting restrictions laws, are ultimately passed and signed by the governor here. we have new reporting that this week the texas members will holding a virtual conference. they are going to be taking part in a virtual conference with the likes of multiple state secretaries of state who oversee their voting efforts, but they'ring going to include the likes of dolores huerta, as well a

what you're hearing is a lot of senate democrats, people like elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, bernie sanders, and they said they would be open to overruling the decision if the stimulus package seen as not value litt for the reconciliation. so right now there is still a lot of questions i would say, but i agree with janet. there is a sense of guarded optimism right now with a lot of advocates in the immigrant rights community. but like with anything that comes to the biden administration, let's see what they do. >> juilo, i'm glad that you're reporting on issues that can be ignored by other groups. the mayor of los angeles says 500 community college students will have a grant to pay their application fee. is this something that other cities should be considering? >> absolutely, jose. we're very encouraged by these local actions, if you will, to optimize the advancement and the support of these daca students. they absolutely need the support and they're contributing. we had many of them represented in those essential jobs that were necessary to get us through the pandemic. it is absol

. >> i want to pull up the live shot here the stacey abrams and amy klobuchar, holding this roundtable on voting rights. how do you feel about the moment tim now? i know you have a ton of events planned. how are you going to keep this momentum up, knowing the attention span of americans? >> earlier, you were talking about how there was five-hour voting, people waiting in line. we had the exact same thing in tex, except people were standing in 100 degrees weather, and republicans are looking to pass laws to make it eight hours lounge, and if you pass out water, you're going to prison. we're trying to let every single lawmakers floe, democrat and republican, these are the things they're trying to do. >> if they try to help somebody who is disabled, if they try to help someone who doesn't speak english perfectly, and they don't do it exactly right, they're going to be arrested and they're going to go to prison. >>> representative wu, thank you for joining us. i hoar you and your colleagues are safe. we appreciate it. >>> tomorrow, lawrence o'donnell and jonathan capeheart speak with the d

the rules committee led by senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, is holding the u.s. senate's first field hearings in two decades to try to bring voting rights issues to the public's attention. first stop, atlanta georgia where one witness described the obstacles the voting in georgia. >> this past year i had to go to extraordinary lengths to accomplish the simple but consequential task of passing my ballot. i, along with thousands of georgians, had to wait for hours in order to cast my vote. in fact, i had to go to the polls twice in order to vote. >> with that, let's bring in our lead off guest on this monday night. philip rucker, pulitzer prize -winning senior washington correspondent for the washington post. he is highly anticipated new book written with his colleague carole leonnig, called i alone can fix it. it generated a lot of headlines even though it doesn't come out until tomorrow and his coauthor carol leonnig will join us a bit later for a full conversation about it. also here tonight, a.b. stoddard, veteran washington journalist associated editor and col

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klobuchar and raphael warnock is asking for a mandate of 15 days for voting and mandates at least two sundays people can vote souls to the polls, a national extension of mail-in voting, national voter identification requirement and a provision that would require super pacs to disclose identities of bigger donors. basically it's a more narrow version of the for the people act, the sweeping voting rights bill that democrats have come out in support of. even so, with this narrow bill being discussed, it's still unclear how this doesn't boil down to a fight about the filibuster even if garners support of all democratic senators in the senate. they still need the support of ten rupp votes, and considering the opposing side of this is the began vallizing issue of the republican party. that's probably unlikely to happen without scrapping the filibuster entirely. >> there's certainly calls on the left do that and many are reluctant to take that extreme, in their words, step. jackie, we just heard the president speak rather emotionally about those who have yet to get vaccinated. we saw him unr

would you include budget reconciliation about senator amy klobuchar mentioned it. jim clyburn said the same thing. would you rule out using budget reconciliation for democracy related action? >> i'm not here to rule anything out. as it relates to budget reconciliation. there is going to be a lot of work done over the next week or two as you know. writing that piece of legislation, having discussions between democrats on what they want to see included in there, what their priorities are. we'll see how that all plays out. >> when joe manchin and kirsten sinema oppose changing the filibuster because they believe everything should be done in a bipartisan way, even though republicans are getting rid of voting rights in a very partisan way, they're wrong about that, right? i just want to confirm the president does not share their view that reforming the filibuster or protecting voting rights needs a republican buy in. >> well, first i would say the president has never advocated for changing the filibuster. he said he's -- he supports changing to a talking filibuster. he

the rules committee led by senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, is holding the u.s. senate's first field hearings in two decades to try to bring voting rights issues to the public's attention. first stop, atlanta, georgia, where one witness described the obstacles to voting in georgia. >> this past year, i had to go to extraordinary lengths to accomplish the simple but consequential task of casting my ballot. i along with thousands of georgians, had to wait for hours in order to cast my vote. in fact, i had to go to the polls twice in order to vote. >> with that, let's bring in our lead-off guests. phillip rucker, pulitzer prize winner for the "washington post," his highly anticipated new book written with his colleague called, i alone can fix it. donald trump's catastrophic final year. generating a lot of headlines, even though it doesn't come out until tomorrow. phil's co-author will join us a bit later for a full conversation about it. also with us, amy stoddard, washington journalist, for real clear politics and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she also happens

senator amy klobuchar and congressman james clyburn explaining two ways it can be done. >> we can put election infrastructure funding along with housing and child care and the like and do what we can to incentivize mail in ballot. >> we can reconcile these things by the constitution. the 15th amendment gave the former slaves the right to vote. that was done by the way by a single party vote. to senator manchin, bipartisan is good but it's not required to make a good solid law. >> republicans are taking issue with the

senator amy klobuchar and congressman james clyburn explaining two ways it can be done. >> we can put election infrastructure funding along with housing and child care and the like and do what we can to incentivize mail in ballot. >> we can reconcile these things by the constitution. the 15th amendment gave the former slaves the right to vote. that was done by the way by a single party vote. to senator manchin, bipartisan is good but it's not required to make a good solid law. >> republicans are taking issue with the timeline set by senator schumer for procedural vote on an infrastructure package. >> you say that chuck schumer is trying to give an arbitrary deadline. i covered lots of legislative battles in the senate and what he is saying is start debate. he's not saying let's have a final vote on a bill. what's wrong with that? >> start debate on what? we don't have a product yet. we won't have a product until we can finish the negotiations properly. >>> tomorrow a big hearing on the january 6th insurrection. the first defendant will be sentenced on a felony charge related to the br

republican senators lisa murkowski and susan collins and democratic senators amy klobuchar and kyrsten sinema are spearheading that legislation. it has 17 co-sponsors, including several male senators. justice o'connor, a conservative. and justice ginsburg, a liberal. were the first and second female justices, respectively, in a statement klobuchar put the effort into focus. saying, quote, the capitol is our most recognizable symbol of democracy. a place where people from across our country have their voices represented and heard. it is only fitting that we honor the remarkable lives and service to our country, by establishing statues in the capitol. alaska senator, lisa murkowski, adds their leadership has made a difference for women and families, for generations to come. and how right she is, justice ginsburg argued a series of historic cases before the supreme court before she ever even served as a justice. establishing the equal-citizenship rights of men and women. and before rbg, there was justice sandra day o'connor, the first woman ever seated. an appointment that showed women, t

i asked committee chair woman amy klobuchar whether this was part of an effort to show the filibuster holdouts like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. they tried everything, it would take a change in rules to pass a federal voting rights bill. here's what she told me. >> i think part of this is yes, bringing back evidence. now, there is evidence directly from our colleagues, like john tester, big believer in the bill from montana. he has seen a state with good election laws get changed, purely raw political power. you see wisconsin and tammy baldwin. they're hearing it from them and their personal stories, but getting evidence from voters, bringing it back with us, i think that's very important, too. >> reporter: chris, some of the evidence today comes from georgia voters testifying. some coming from raphael warnock. he is probably the most vulnerable incumbent in a battleground state. the issue is nearer to the broader picture of democracy and to democrats' unique political interest here in georgia. >> obviously we're see action on different fronts, there are road blocks to federal acti

several senators including raphael warnock, amy klobuchar and joe manchin are huddled in senate leader chuck schumer's office to discuss the legislation and the momentum is building. the new york times and nbc news both report that the president will meet with speaker nancy pelosi, and leader schumer tomorrow to discuss voting rights legislation. the need for action could not be more pressing. today texas state democrats who fled their states to block a restrictive voting bill testified before congress about the desperate need for federal action to block voter suppression efforts at home. vote >> this is a practical implication that is going to disenfranchise hundreds and thousands of votes of texans. and so that is why we're here. we try to work with our counterparts but every amendment that we presented was declined. >> where was that, in committee? >> yes sir. in committee. on the 23 hour there were amendments that were presented, even during the regular session when we presented amendments they would not always admit it. and so we have tried, we've used every tool in our tool box t

we saw amy klobuchar say maybe if we're expanding our definition of infrastructure, election infrastructure comes in. maybe we push things into the infrastructure bill or are there punitive things. i remember when i was growing up, the state of colorado didn't want to lower their speed limit to 55 and the federal government said fine, you don't get any federal highway money. there's money coming to states that are hurting voters. are there ways to be creative about using the infrastructure package to get some of the reforms on voting through? >> potentially there are, and we're certainly looking into all of them. just had a conversation about that early this morning. but understand for the people has provisions in it that i don't think we can get in through reconciliation because, remember, we have the parliamentarian who's going to be sitting there saying, wait a minute, is that a money provision or are you trying to create new law. so i don't want to have to rely on that. i want to keep saying i'm glad to talk about infrastructure. i'm glad for us to move infrastructure forward. but we ha

take us inside the hearing and what you heard from the woman leading this committee, senator amy klobuchar. >> reporter: hallie, good morning. this hearing has just gotten under way and just the fact that we're here at all speaks to what democrats believe is the scale and scope of the problem. remember, there's already been one vote on the for the people act which democrats laid out as their solution to these state laws that are popping up in republican-controlled states. that law failed, or that vote failed and now you've got democrats trying to come up with non-traditional ways to keep the spotlight on this issue and to try to build support for trying again, as you heard senator klobuchar say before the break, she's not giving up on the issue of the for the people act. that's not coming from republicans, mitch mcconnell out with a statement about the hearing. he's on this committee, by the way, not attending. he called it a silly stunt, accuses democrats of trying to create hysteria around the voting rights issue. what does that leave us with? democrats trying to convince other democrats

. >> now this morning senator amy klobuchar, who chairs the committee taking the extraordinary steps to hold this field hearing today stressed the urgency in an interview with our garrett haake taking aim at the lies and disinformation. >> i think the republicans know what's going on here but there's a figure out there and his name is donald trump. and he has basically continued to perpetuate a lie that somehow he won the last election. everyone knows that's not true that looks at this and all the local election officials, democrats and republicans, know that's not true. that's why i believe this is an even bigger deal than just party versus party. this is a quest to save our democracy because once you start disenfranchising people, people lose faith. >> this is literally a threat to our democracy. that's the kind of passion that we're increasingly hearing from democrats who frame the threat to voting rights as an existential threat to democracy itself. but their conviction is being confronted with the reality in washington that without complete unity inside the democratic party that

have movement on the legislative front with regard to regulating big tech companies this time from amy klobuchar, she's put forth a bill meant to target internet and social media companies spreading misinformation about medical issues. her proposal would look to create an exemption to a current law called 230. klobuchar wants to strip the protections away when it comes to spreading falsehoods about things like vaccines. and on the path back to normal, first the american ballet theatre is coming home to lincoln center in new york city this october. october 20th has been set as the date when the company's season will open for indoor shows, those tickets by the way, will go on sale september 8th for the fall season. earlier in this morning we had a chance to speak with the executive director, karen barnett. she said she expects demand for performances to be the highest in years given the pent up demand from not seeing regular shows during the pandemic. and we like talking about food every once in a while people are getting back to normal when it comes to eating, at least from domino's piz

the meeting included senators alex padilla of california, oregon's jeff merkley, minnesota's amy klobuchar and west virginia's senator joe manchin who last month released a three page framework that scald back some of the more expensive provisions of the bill that failed. to pressure the federal government to act, the poor people's campaign is holding a four-day march. >> i'm tired, but i am not nearly as tired as the people who are having to fight for their rights over and over and over again. so i used to watch all of the '60s documentaries and say if i was alive and of age i would be there and now this is my chance, unfortunately to have to be here. >> if they asked me to run a marathon, i would say no but i can put one foot in front of the other and walk. and the emergency here is very empowering. it truly is. >> the group started yesterday in georgetown, texas and will end on saturday at the state capitol in austin. the march is in the spirit of the famed selma to montgomery march of 1965 which pressured congress to pass the voting rights act of that same year. one of the single great