he does seem to be taking pages right out of the arizona playbook. in arizona, the republican state senate leader used her subpoena power to force the board of elections to turn over ballots. this pennsylvania state senator also runs a committee that theoretically has subpoena power. in arizona, the state senate fronted $150,000 to pay for their so-called audit. the rest of the funding for it is coming from sources that nobody involved will disclose. this pennsylvania state senator is also trying to secure funding for an audit and has sought advice from a law firm about how to go about using money from a private non-profit organization to pay for vendors, consultants and anyone else. in arizona, all the republicans involved in the so-called audit have been claiming that it's not about overturning the 2020 election. it's about restoring integrity to the state's elections. right on cue in pennsylvania, a law firm tapped by the republican state senator said in a letter that the purpose of such an audit would be to -- hope you are sitting down -- develop

in phoenix, arizona. this is thursday last week, it was 112 degrees in phoenix that day. ♪ can't take it no more ♪ ♪ we're fired up ♪ ♪ we're fired up ♪ ♪ can't take it no more ♪ >> fired up, can't take it no more. 112 degrees that day in phoenix. not counting the radiant heat off the tarmac there. that was outside the office of arizona's republican attorney general, mark burn avich. those folks were protesting outside his office because of his role in promoting and defending new voting rights restrictions in arizona, including all the way up to the united states supreme court. also, arizona's new rules about how the state's elections will be conducted in the future, new rules explicitly designed to make sure officials from the democratic party can't play a top role in election administration in arizona anymore, only republicans will be allowed to do that from here on out. of those folks protesting outside attorney general's office in arizona, nine were arrested. it wasn't -- they weren't

today, arizona republicans who are doing their so-called audit in arizona, they gave a briefing on their progress. only two republican senators were there, but they tried to call it a hearing. this was -- this audit that they're doing in arizona, they launched it in april. they said it would take three weeks. it's, of course, now mid-july, and they're still going strong. they made clear today that they're definitely finding all of the fraud they have been fantasizing about, but it's definitely going to take lots more investigation, lots more materials, probably lots more donations from trump supporters nationwide. it looks like they will subpoena more stuff from the county, maricopa county, where they got all these ballots from. the way they were talking about it today, it sounds like they think they have weeks to go, maybe months still to go. it's such a big complex investigation. there's no sign actually that there was anything wrong with the presidential vote in arizona. nothing. there's no sign that there was anything wrong with it. at all. and i'm saying that not just like, because

maricopa county, arizona. the one being run by the cyber ninjas' guy, who is a qanon stop the steal conspiracy theorist. where they have been running through ballots. they have been taking the the ballots and running them under ultra violet light looking for bamboo fibers because maybe the ballots were secretly sent to america from east asia. today, the guy who's been overseeing the audit for the arizona republicans quit. after being locked out. i'm -- that's not a -- i mean, he was actually, physically, locked out of the building where the audit has been taking place. well, that was this morning. he quit. and then, later today, he unquit. so, that's going well. the whole arizona audit circus was supposed to last a few weeks. we are now four months in. the arizona senate republicans, just this week, sent a whole new batch of subpoenas to maricopa county for more stuff that they want to look at. they are just going to keep on looking. this thing is going to go on forever, so that donald trump and his allies can

it is in full swing in arizona. we are expecting them to announce their supposedly scandalous results sometime soon. republicans even now are movinga to also do it in wisconsin, also in pennsylvania, also in georgia. even also in oklahoma where trump won by more than 30 points, but still there must have been democratic fraud. in his remarks today, president biden then turned to what voting rights advocates are desperate u to hear from him.fr a full-throated unreserved call to act, to protect voting rights nationally in washington, which is the only way to stop the state-by-state devastating attacks on voting rights that republicans are now pursuing across the country. watch. >> last month republicans opposed even debating, even considering for the people's act. senate democrats stood united to protect our democracy and the sanctity of the vote. we must pass the for the people act. it's a national imperative. we must also fight for the john lewis voting rights advancement act to restore and expand -- [ cheers and app

the arizona republic reports tonight that one of the republican state senators in arizona who's been promoting the audit thing in arizona all along, he's now selling t-shirts promoting his cause. the cost of his t-shirts, it's a sliding scale by size. they're $35 to $45 for a t-shirt. wow, order yours today. it's $35 for a small or $45 for a double extra large, which frankly just seems rude. "the washington post" reports tonight former president trump seems to have found a tidy path through the wreckage to pay his living expenses via this nonsense he continues to stoke. the headline in "the post" tonight, quote trump's pac collected $75 million this year, but so far the group has not put money into pushing the ballot he touts. it raised about $75 million the first half of this year as he trumpeted the false notion the 2020 election was stolen from him. but the pac has not devoted funds to help finance or push for similar endeavors in other states according to people familiar with the finances. instead the save america leadership pac, which has few limits on how it can spend its money

in arizona -- this mess in arizona has been one county. this inquisition in arizona and the cyber ninjas, it was supposed to be done in may. now it's june. now it's july. it was going to be done last thursday. now we think we'll take it to august. we've been enjoying ourselves. in arizona that was one county and it's been going on since april. in pennsylvania they are starting with these demands to three counties, including zo philadelphia. and then say after that initial response, they'll make the same demands of more counties. maybe they'll be able to keep theirs going on for years. there is no split screen. there are two different worlds. there is a party that is trying to use electoral politics and the democratic process to make policy about problems that the country faces. there is another party that is trying to end the use of electoral politics as an objective way of deciding who has power and how questions get resolved in our country. the two parties are engaged right now in fundamentally different projects. one of them is engaged

"an audit of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in arizona in the 2020 election. we are concerned about your company's role in this highly unusual effort given cyberninjas' lack of experience. reports the company engaged in sloppy and insecure practices that compromised the integrity of ballots and voting equipment and were questioned by the u.s. justice department. and evidence that you and aol individuals funding the audit have sought to advance the big lie of debunked voter fraud allegations about the 2020 presidential election. americans' right to vote is protected by the constitution. it is the cornerstone of our democratic system of government. the committee seeks to determine whether the privately funded audit conducted by your company in arizona protects the right to vote or is instead an effort to promote baseless conspiracy theories, undermine confidence in america's elections and reverse the results of a free and fair election for partisan gain." what do you really mean? the so-called audit in arizona in which the republicans in the state legislature hi

the so-called, audit, and arizona in which republicans in the state legislature labeled the script cyber ninjas, which appears to be this guy dug, -- we it's lived for months now at this intersection of clown show ridiculousness, and actual consequential threat to american democracy. because the whole thing is aimed at, essentially, undoing the presidential u.s. result in the state. they are, thereby, undermining americans faith and the credibility in the finality of our election results. but now, based on this letter released by the oversight committee tonight sent to that ups store in florida, we know this fake audit is the subject of a new congressional investigation. the oversight committee wants to know about all the weird stuff that doug logan has been doing to the arizona ballots, like shining ultraviolet light on them, or searching for a bamboo content in the ballots, because there's a conspiracy theory that the ballots were mailed in from asia. and they were overseen by joe gun and his own social media posts about it being rigged against donald trump and trump must have gotten 2

the whole arizona audit circus was meant to last a few weeks, we are now four months. in the senators say that the new batch of subpoenas that -- they're just gonna keep on looking. this thing is gonna go on forever so that donald trump and his allies can keep pointing to it and say proof of all the fraud is coming, it's just around the corner. and it's spreading. in wisconsin, the republican chair of the assembly elections committee is gathering up for her own arizona audit. she doesn't just won a forensic audit, she wants a cyber forensic audit. we don't know what that is but i'm sure that it is much fancier than the regular audit. this is how a wisconsin we republican made a pilgrimage -- this is on top of the investigation initiated by the republican speaker of the wisconsin assembly who wired some ex cops to dig into the 2020 election results for him under the watchful supervision of a republican former wisconsin supreme court justice who became a stop the steal activist after the election. and there's also the audit of ballots in, wisconsin being carried out by a

in arizona and florida they'll be kicking people off the absentee voting list, in arizona, iowa, florida kentucky utah they'll be expanding voter purges, kicking people off the voter rolls entirely. in florida, arkansas, new hampshire in wyoming there is harsher, stricter narrow voter i.d. requirements. and yes, in florida and georgia they're banning water or any food or snacks for anyone in line no matter how long the line gets, no matter how hot it is that the, no matter how old the waiting voter is. 18 different states, 30 different voter restrictions law and counting, those are past, those are laws. and the effort to find a way to stop it, to try to put a floor under voting rights nationwide so no state can restrict voting rights below that nationwide floor to hold them up, that fight still hinges on the for the people act, which has passed the house and it's stuck in the senate, is still stuck in the senate because of uniform republican opposition to it and the hope the republicans are getting in that effort from democratic senator joe manchin. as we've been reporting for the past c

this is the headline from the arizona republic today. quote, arizona representatives andy biggs and paul gosar votes to abandon afghan allies. what follows is a scathing editorial indicting these two congressman for being part of a small group of 16 republicans who voted against an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill to try to expedite the process and forgetting afghan translator to help u.s. forces day safety as america ends its longest war. quote, when the u.s. pulled out of vietnam, there were unfortunate, sometimes tragic repercussions for some of the vietnamese who assisted our troops. the idea of the house bill was to not let that happen again. to appreciate loyalty to. demonstrate empathy. to emphasize humanity. the bill before the most unmistakably and indisputably good. in voting, no, congressman gosar and biggs prove themselves to be unmistakably and indisputably the opposite. gosar and biggs are not the only republicans facing bash slash for voting against helping the translators. the veterans group released this ad targeting two d

today dozens were arrested in arizona for doing the same thing. i'll give you a few guesses as to whose office that took place outside of. the answer when we come back. ugh, these balls are moist. or is that the damp weight of self-awareness you now hold in your hands? yeah (laugh) keep your downstairs dry with gold bond body powder. keep your downstairs dry for bathroom odors that linger try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days. >>> the for the people campaign is ramping up. it held 27 rallies in cities across the country. if phoenix, william barber and jesse jackson held a real rally to put pressure on kyrsten sinema's office. they held a march where they held a sit-in, blocking the entrance as they sang "this little light of mine." both civil rights leaders were arrested at the sit-in. barber posted this photo of him in zip ties with the caption "we've got to get these shackles off our democracy." and senator sinema's spokesman said there could be stricter voti

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frankly, could put the final nail in the coffin of the already gutted voting rights act based on an arizona voting case. both of those decisions are expected from the supreme court tomorrow. election reform and voting rights advocates bracing for what's expected to not be great news on either of those fronts, but we shall see. the court has been full of surprises this year. the substance being the last day of the term matters. but tomorrow also matters because it is the last day of the term. and if justice steven briar or any of the other 80-something-year-old justices on the court are going to retire from the court, past precedent would suggest that tomorrow could be the day which we will get that announcement. in the vast majority of modern supreme court retirements, they are announced to either take effect at the end of a supreme court term or they are announced at the close of a supreme court term. so if you are planning on this being the summer in which we get a supreme court vacancy and a senate fight over who to put on the court, we will likely tomorrow is the day we will most likely

my challenge today is not about the good people of arizona. >> stay in recess until the call of the chair. >> we will pause. thank you. >> stand in recess, you can see jon ernst and tom cotton both military veterans looking around, recognizing something is going on. you can see the commotion, people start moving around him. you hear senator leahy presiding at that moment to hit the gavel. he doesn't know why. somebody from his office comes up and says there in the building. holds of his papers, walks away. what's senator lankford was arguing on january 6th after 2 pm that day because the election shouldn't be certified congress shouldn't certified, the state should take another ten days, a commission, a study, audit the results, take another ten days which would basically get as right up against inauguration day itself before the electors would actually be sent up to capitol hill and count it. as he's making that argument, he's getting right to the apex of his argument and then, sorry, sir, here they come! you've got to stop what you're doing and we've got to get out of here, here they co

my challenge today is not about the good people of arizona. >> will stand in recess until the call of the chair. >> we'll pause. thank you. >> stand in recess. you can see aerns and cotton looking around recognizing something is going on. see the commotion and people start moving around him. senator leahy presiding hit the gavel. he doesn't know why. someone from the office comes up and says they're in the building. folds up the papers. walks away. what senator lankford was arguing there on january 6 just after 2:00 p.m. that day was that the election shouldn't be certified. congress shouldn't certify. the states should take another ten days. a study. a commission. study the result. basically get up against inauguration day itself before the electors would be sent to capitol hill and counted. he is getting the apex of the argument and then oops. sorry, sir. here they come. you got to stop what you are doing and we got to get out of here. here they come. who's to say they're not coming for you? hunting the speaker of the house, hunting the vice president, pawing through senators' desks

as their safe harbor, they regionally planned on setting up camp in arizona, where west virginia. why those two places? because those are the home states of two conservative democratic senators, kirsten sinema and joe manchin who's in who's hands the fate of a national voting rights bill, effectively sits. texas democrats hoped that might pressure those two u.s. senators to change their mind about to passing voting rights at the federal level, because without federal protections, texas republicans are going to do what they are going to do here. ultimately, the texas democrats felt that would be too risky going to arizona or west virginia, given that both those states have republican governors. they were those red state governors might somehow tell -- help republicans in reestablish the quorum. that's the kind of drama we are dealing with here. more than 50 democrats from the texas house are now in washington d.c. tonight. the flights from austin to d.c. carrying those democrats just have landed in the past hour. there are not only trying to throw a wrench in the works, trying to s

ultimately apparently the texasa democrats felt like that might be too risky going to arizona or west virginia, given that both of those states have republican governors. r they worried that those red state governors might somehow help texas republicans force the democrats back into texas to re-establish the quorum. that is the drama we're dealing with and why the texas democrats are in washington tonight. the planes have just landed in the past hour.ts they're not only trying to throw a wrench in the works on trying to stop this voter suppression bill from passing in texas. they picked d.c. ultimately not as a purely symbolic thing but because they're begging for a federal response here.sp they're begging for a federal backstop to voting rights that would stop a state like texas or any other republican controlled state from being able to pass voting right restrictions like the ones these texas democrats are staring down the barrel at right now. joining us now on face time from a bus with his democratic colleagues in a parking lot at dulles airport just outside of r ngu d.c. and way o

arizona senator kirsten sinema who was credited by the bipartisan group for bringing the deal together, anchored some in her party when she said that the three point million dollar price tag being floated for the larger reconciliation bill of -- which united a strong support from them, alexandra ocasio-cortez quoted good luck thanking your own party's investment on trial care, climate action and infrastructure while presuming you'll survive a three-vote house margin especially after choosing to exclude members of color from negotiations and calling that bipartisan accomplishment. joining us is -- of the caucus she will have a big role in deciding what kind of infrastructure deal can pass the house. thank you for joining us this evening. >> great to see you, ali. let's talk about your hesitation on this bill. has got to do with anything that's on the bill we don't know exactly what's in the bipartisan bill or is it all about not trimming staff off of the other bill you are more focused on. >> we don't know what's in the bipartisan bill so, we have to see it. we have to make sure we agre

there is also this, which we found today on the telegram channel promoting the cause of an arizona-style election audit in michigan. they are apparently holding an event in michigan two weeks from now where you can learn about the confirmed existence of election fraud, why they need a forensic audit there. learn all about it off you cough up 20 bucks to get in the door. we tried contacting the organizers to find out where that 220 bucks goes if you decide to hand over your hand earned money to attend the michigan fraud fest. we have not heard back from them. we will keep trying. another thing to watch is happening early monday morning because it's not just grifty potential fraud suspects in michigan who have been pushing the false election fraud claims in michigan. in late november trump attorney sydney powell and three other lawyers filed a federal lawsuit in michigan trying to push these same claims. the lawsuit tried to force the state of michigan into awarding its electoral votes to trump even though biden won the election. the federal judge hearing that case in late november not onl

arizona senator kyrsten sinema, who was credited by the bipartisan group for bringing the deal together, angered some in her party when she said that the $3.5 trillion pricetag being floated for that larger reconciliation deal is too high. she doesn't support it. which ignited a strong response from house progressives. democratic representative alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted "good luck tanking your own party's investment in child care, climate action, and infrastructure while presuming you'll survive a 3-vote house margin especially after choosing to exclude members of color from negotiations and calling that a bipartisan accomplishment.” pramila jayapal also let it be known she and her colleagues are not going to vote for the bipartisan deal unless their priorities are sufficiently funded in the reconciliation deal. joining us is washington congress qom pramila jayapal chairman of the progressive caucus, which will have a big role in deciding what kind of deal can pass the house. thank you for seeing you this evening. >> great to see you. >> let's talk about your hesitation about t

. -- >> there's also this, which we found today on the telegram channel promoting the cause of an arizona-style election audit in michigan. there. apparently going to hold an event in michigan where you can learn all about the confirmed existence of systematic election fraud in michigan. you can learn all about why they need to have a forensic audite a forensic audi cough up 20 bucks to get in the door. we tried contacting the organizers today to find out where that 20 bucks goes, if you in fact decide to hand over your hard earned money to attend the michigan fraud fest. so far, we have not heard back from them, but we'll keep trying. one other thing to watch or though, it's going to happen early monday morning. because it's not just grift-y potential fraud suspects in michigan who have been pushing the false election fraud claims in michigan. in late november, trump attorneys sydney powell and three other lawyers, filed a federal lawsuit in michigan trying to push many of the same claims. many of the lawsuit try to force the state of michigan into aborting its electoral votes to trump, even t

. >> meanwhile, in arizona, another democrat fighting to protect voters, arizona secretary of state katie hobbs who has asked her state's republican vaccine averse attorney general to open up a criminal investigation into whether trump and his allies broke the law in their efforts to pressure maricopa county officials after the election. hobbs has made it clear that fighting her state's sham fraudit isn't just about affirming the last election but preventing republicans from stealing the next one, which is exactly what they're now opening trying to do. while exporting more partisan sham reviews to other states like pennsylvania where a state senator who participated in the pro-trump events in d.c. before the insurrection is now demanding, get this, that binders full of ballots be delivered to him. it shouldn't surprise you that pennsylvania fraudit guise considered for running for governor. we see you, republicans, rolling out the full insurexz tool kit to any state where you have legislative control in order to instill social chaos and crush our democracy using, quote, election integrity

the test that's being proposed now to legitimize arizona's laws or legitimize a whole host of things which is why the conversation has to move nationally to how we get these voting rights act. back when i argued that voting rights case in 2010, it had been reauthorized in the congress and house by 421-3 and senate 98-0. this is the most morn thing we could imagine, the right to vote. how could it be derived? how could the supreme court be writing these? it's time for congress to act. >> of course, neil, racism no longer exists. racism is over because obama was present. therefore, 1 out of 320 million people, poof, racism is gone. by the way, so you think we're bringing up hyperbole again. florida enacted a poll tax. if you serve prison time, you have to pay a poll tax. that's legal according to justice alito. >>> is kevin going all authoritarian on us? he threatened to retaliate against republicans if they accepted an appointment to serve on the select committee. liz cheney did just that joining seven democrats announced by pelosi earlier today. one of those democrats will be here ne

the arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud. this isn't exactly voter fraud. this is out of three million ballots. some were republican cast votes. what can the federal government do at this point? >> every avenue we have within the court system is being systemically taken away from us. everything that we could have done legislatively is being taken away from us. now we're having to depend on the federal government, at this point in time, for states like arizona, texas, wisconsin, georgia, all of these places where these republican legislatures are passing some draconian election laws. we're having to depend on congress to come by and say let's take a look at what's really going on here. i hope our attorney general investigates because donald trump was calling our senate leaders just before this thing happened. >> greg abbott is trying to usher through conservative pipe dream with not om banning 24 hour voting but trying to expand or limit abortion rights and anti-trans laws. it's really scary here. it cast a wide dark shadow ov

can it be stopped or are you the next arizona? >> will be stopped. examine my track record of stopping efforts to try and disenfranchise our black and brown communities in pennsylvania. one insurrectionist state senator enabled by modern day republican party beholden to donald trump who is demanding the private voting information of 997,000 pennsylvanians. if he were able to pull off the audit would cost the taxpayers of those counties over $30 million. taking advantage of the taxpayers to the tune of $30 million and compromising their personal information. he will not get away with it. >> what scares a lot of us out here in the world is each of the states where republican insurrectionists are trying to mess with the faith in the last election and essentially put in place the tools to steal the next election, it all depends on everybody having enough people in the state willing to fight and in position to fight. in arizona they've disempowered the top elections official to make it harder for her to fight it. governor there was a kissup to trump as we

arizona senator kyrsten sinema, a key democratic negotiator of the bipartisan deal finally admitted that she does not support the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package in its current form. now, this could be a problem for the progressive members of the democratic party who were willing to sacrifice a number of issues in order to get the bipartisan infrastructure deal done, but this was only with the understanding that more would be addressed in the reconciliation package. with me now is nbc news national political reporter, sahil kapur. sahil, busy day on capitol hill, before we get into the politics on this, i think it's important for the folks at home to understand what exactly is in this bill? >> absolutely, tiffany. this is a big vote for the bill, a major breakthrough for a piece of legislation that senators have tried to move for quite a while now. and here's what it includes. it's $550 billion in new spending on infrastructure projects. that includes roads and bridges. that includes highways. it includes public transit. there's about $65 billion in here for new broadband. it includ

glenn, in another part of the exchange, trump falsely claims that the elections in georgia, nevada, arizona and michigan were all corrupted. he accused the doj of failing to respond to legitimate complaints and reports of crimes and truly unbelievably to back all of that up, he tells them that, quote, you guys may not be following the internet the way i do. the internet. glenn, what would happen if the doj made decisions based on international rumors rather than evidence? >> well, they wouldn't win a lot of cases. because what we see on the internet rarely translates to admissible evidence in a court of law. and this shows, this is the deflection by donald trump. because when he's confronted with the evidence, out of the mouths of his own department of justice officials, people who he put in place, he chooses to disregard and say well the internet or maybe the tabloids or i heard somebody say somewhere, this is a very thinly, you know, very thin veneer of plausibility that donald trump is reaching for. but i'll tell you, i really can't overestimate the importance of the ability of prosecuto

arizona congressman paul gosar continues to target the police officer who shot the insurrectionist who breached the speaker's lobby. then there's kevin. good old kevin mccarthy. for weeks officer fanone had asked to meet with kevin but to no avail. when he did, kevin refused to denounce the whitewashing of the january 6th attack. is that what they mean when they say blue lives matter? hysterical republicans like ted cruz have denied these claims. fact check. mr. vacation in mexico. biden has vowed to spend $260 million more than the orange guy on the police. also it was republicans who literally voted against funding for the police in the american rescue package. so tonight, pretending that they actually care about the police when they really don't, the republican party is the absolute worst. that is tonight's reidout. "all in" starts now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> we will march to the capitol building and call on congress to stop the steal. we are hoping patriots like you will join us to continue the fight to protect the integrity of our elections. >> six months later, what we're le

can you confirm that one of the reasons that you all are not going to, for instance, west virginia or arizona where you could in theory put a lot of pressure in person on the senators, even though they're in washington right now, concerns about the governors there, republican governors forcing you all back to texas? >> that's been a part of our conversations. we are concerned that that would happen. you know, there's a concerted effort to promote donald trump's big lie and pass legislation and these states -- we're seeing it happen all over here. so you never know what they'll do next when it comes to any means necessary to bring us back to pass these bills that will hurt access to the ballot box. >> let me play texas governor abbott. this is him explaining why he would like to see drive-through voting banned. >> with regard to the drive-through voting, listen, this violates the fundamentals of the way that voting integrity has always been achieved and that is the sanctity of the ballot box. if you do drive-through voting, you're going to have people in the car with you and it could be somebo

a lot of people were hailing lewis on this anniversary including arizona conservative democratic senator kyrsten sinema, who got quite a bit of blow back for calling him her dear friend and personal hero. since sinema stands in opposition to ending the filibuster. meanwhile, other democrats were making good trouble in atlanta today. for the first time in 20 years, the senate rules committee held a field hearing, starting with impassion remarks from georgia senator, the reverend raphael warnock. john lewis's pastor at ebenezer baptist church. >> sadly, what we're seeing in georgia is an attempt to deny certain people the ability to have their voices heard in our democracy. as i have said time and time again, some people don't want some people to vote. congress must take action on voting rights. we have no time to spare. there is nothing more important for us to do this congress. we americans live in a great house that democracy built. right now that house is on fire. >> not a single republican senator participated in today's field hearing. minority leader mcconnell poked his head out of h

this comes on the heels of arizona senator kyrsten sinema announcing that she does not support that plan in its current form. this almost immediately infuriated many house progressives who signaled that they would not vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill without a separate human infrastructure bill that meets the moment. new york congressman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted this warning to senator sinema. "good luck taking your own party's investment on child care, climate action and infrastructure while presuming you'll survive a three-vote house margin especially after choosing to exclude members of color from negotiations and calling that a bipartisan accomplishment." joining me now minnesota congressman ilhan omar, a member of the congressional progressive caucus. her memoir "this is what america looks like" is now available in paperback. congressman, your take on this bipartisan deal. >> it's really important for us to remember that we've laid out as members of the progressive caucus, as you know i serve as the whip, we've whipped on this, there is no path forward for a bipar

got our western partners here feeling the same situation, whether it's colorado, california, utah, arizona. we're all in this together. hopefully we can make the point that this is devastating to us. i mean this drought is going on and on. our water supply -- we're doing everything we can to mitigate the problem that we have. for example, this year in the legislature i was proud we passed a bill banning ornamental grass. that's going to save 14 gallons of water per person per day. but those are the things we'll have to do a lot more of. not just nevada but all the states to preserve and get the most we can out of the water supply, the precious resource that we have. >> and real quickly, governor, what are you saying to the citizens of nevada in terms of what they can do to either prevent future forest fires or to at least conserve water? >> well, on both fronts we've got restrictions in place for the fire situation. we're not allowing campfires in a lot of areas as it relates to target shooting, we're not encouraging that in the areas that there can be a spark as a result of that. water in

you saw the sham of an audit in phoenix, arizona. you've seen what's happened in georgia in recent months and in alabama and in iowa. voter suppression is happening across the country and that's why, yes, congress needs to act. >> but here's the thing, senator. you have maybe ten senators who want to keep the filibuster. they seem to be clinging to that more than they are to democracy. they don't seem to have any urgency. they don't have the urgency you just described. why would you go along voting for their infrastructure bill. manchin really wants that. why don't some of you senators say you don't get our votes on the precious infrastructure bill that you need for your politics if you don't give up the filibuster? or why not say there's got to be something kyrsten sinema wants other than to be on tv and mock her own base. why don't you say to her you want my vote on this? you don't get it. you don't get your 50, you don't get your special stuff unless we get what we want. i don't understand why senators are not using the leverage t