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i'm joined by ayanna pressley. she recently sent a letter to president biden asking him to extend the pause of student loan payments. all right, we're going to get to that, congresswoman. before we do, ahead of biden's big voting rights speech on tuesday, congressman clyburn is asking for a carveout in filibuster legislation. is that an idea you would support? >> alicia, no democrat should support a jim crow filibuster. and as much ire has i have for your our republican colleagues, the american people have supported a filibuster a jim crow filibuster which has caused hurt and harm and they are cosigning disenfranchising millions of voters. they have obstructed progress lowering the cost of prescription drugs. they have obstructed progress in gun violence reform. these are people who have contempt for the american people and i have ire for them, but i will not give a pass to democrats like manchin and sinema who continue to carry the water of a corruption and callous previous administration and continue to carry the

welcome. >> thank you. >> i first met congresswoman ayanna pressley a few years ago. we met briefly at congress. she was very busy that today and was very warm and making a little time to say hello and her first words i will never forget. congresswoman, i will never forget in the u.s. house of representatives described as advocates, policymakers and activists. i would describe you as a trailblazer, a champion for women and children, fearless advocate for african americans and people of color and for the rise of poor people and a personal hero of mine. so, in your list of firsts, first woman of color to be elected to the boston city council, first woman of color to be elected to congress in massachusetts. thank you for being the first to hear our voices and platforms. >> it is my honor to join you as the inaugural, you know, guest for this fireside chat. i am grateful to you and you had me at hello. a sort of kinship and deep understanding is in a national alignment of values and made such an impression and excited for the conversation most of all to hear from the stud

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this is ayanna pressley addressing david sackler. >> we do not need another failed war on drugs. neea reckoning and accountability for drug companies who put profits over people and rob us of lives and freedom of our loved ones. you have created a nationwi epidemic. 450,000 people have died. let me be clear. people struggling with addiction are not criminals. your family, and purdue pharma, you are the criminals. you are the ones who disregard your duties to society, and you should be ashamed of yourself. amy: so, alex gibney, when you talk about insys, people there were in jail. the sackler family, and this goes to the recently settled lawsuit, and i'm wondering if you could comment on this . 15 states recently abandoned their fight to block the bankruptcy plan of purdue pharma, the maker of oxycontin, and exchange purdue releasing tens of millions of documents, paying settlement expected to reach $4.5 billion, but the sackler family agreeing to cede ownership of purdue will not have to admit responsibility. alex: that settlement was designed to sound good. it is a lot of money,

. >> so eliza, yesterday, i talked with representative ayanna pressley on congressman clyburn's push for a voting rights carve-out. take a listen to what she said. >> alicia, no democrat should support a jim crow filibuster. why stop at a carve-out? we should be eliminating and abolishing the filibuster outright. >> congresswoman, to that point, i want to ask you, what do you think it would get to get manchin and sinema to move on this? >> pressure from the white house. >> you heard it right there, pressure from the white house. congressman clyburn says he doesn't care if president biden uses a microphone or a telephone to ramp up pressure on manchin. how much longer can president biden hold on, and do you think on tuesday he uses that opportunity to call these senators out by name? >> well, to tyler's point, the president hasn't endorsed getting rid of the filibuster. so he can increase pressure on democrats to take this seriously, to unite, but they're pretty much united right now, it requires 60 votes for something to pass, and they do not have that. and so until joe biden endorse

meanwhile some members of congress led by representative ayanna pressley is demanding the administration immediately lift title 42. when i asked her about it, she had little to say. watch. griff: are you concerned it would increase the likelihood the spread of covid the cbp confirmed yesterday for us there is 900 percent increase. >> no. griff: you are not worried it would cause a bigger spread. >> no. >> griff: are you asking dhs secretary mayorkas to ignore? >> we followed up with the press secretary to find out more about the timing. he has not gotten back to us. all this comes as ice says they have arrested 302 criminal migrant sex offenders since jun. steve, rachel, brian? >> all right. griff. thank you very much. starting with the story that he was talking about from the "new york times" where now they're fast tracking deporting whole families, you know, they are doing something smart for a change. they are actually interviewing them right at the border as they apprehend them. and essentially what they are doing is they are trying to figure out if they qualify for asylum. and the b

and then there's representative ayanna pressley, who has introduced legislation to defund police officers in public schools. and she has said that, quote, defunding the police is about, quote, true reparations. well, maybe this is just a few fringe democrats of the house of representatives. maybe it's not a broader policy of the democratic party. what about joe biden? uncle joe can't possibly support defunding the police, right? well, if you thought so, you'd be wrong, because joe biden nominated two of the leading advocates of abolishing the police -- vanita gupta and kristen clarke, two senior positions at the u.s. department of justice. one of them is the number three official at the department of justice. the other is the head of civil rights at the department of justice. both had written as recently as last year explicit calls for defunding the police, and they got rewarded with helping run the department of justice. but surely you might say even if joe biden gave in to the act visitors and nominated these folks, there are democrats in this chamber that would say defunding the police