But what is the legislative filibuster other than a tool that requires new federal policy to be broadly supported by senators representing a broader cross-section of Americans, a guardrail,

inevitably viewed as an obstacle by whoever holds a a majority, but which in reality ensures that

millions of Americans represented by the minority party have a voice in the process.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCr-Rig podcast. I'm Jared D.H. Sacks. I'm here, as always, with

Nick Halsam. We've got a treat today. We got author Jonathan M. Katz, whose new book, Gangsters of Capitalism, Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire. He's going to come by, talking about his new book. We're going to get in the weeds on this stuff. Before we do, though, Nick, we talked about this last week. We kind of knew where this thing

was going. You know, it kind of played out exactly as we expected it would. Joe Biden's agenda

for the Voting Rights Act trying to somehow or another fight back against the Republican push to disenfranchise people of color

and Americans. Schumer had a plan. It was hairbrained and, you know, just crazy enough that it just

might work. We knew that Joe Manchin or Kirsten Cinema was going to stand up and basically

kill this thing in the water.

That is what has happened.

It feels bad.

It's not good.

There's a lot to say about it.

But what's your initial reaction here?

Did it feel so bad to Kristen Cinema, that she was like on the verge of tears speaking to the Senate the other night.

I'm still troubled and can't figure that out what was happening there.

But did you sense that when she was saying her speech that she was on the verge of crying?

If you think that I'm, I hate myself enough to subject to myself to watching videos of

Kirsten Sinoa speaking.

You, you don't know me very well.

Forgive me.

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