Pressure Building to Change Filibuster Rule

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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First, Chris discusses pressure to change the Senate filibuster rule with Paul Begala and David Gregory. Then, Chris discusses Biden's plan for global covid vaccine rollout with Dr. Francis Collins. Chris wraps up the show with Dmitri Alperovitch on the rise in ransomware attacks targeting critical public needs. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's good to remember the dark and it's good to remember the light.
0:04.1	Happy birthday, my brother.
0:05.4	Thank you.
0:06.3	You are a gift to us all and I know that you have the best gift in your life now,
0:10.9	which is your son and I hope you enjoy him as much as possible.
0:14.4	Happy birthday, brother.
0:15.4	Thank you.
0:15.9	All right, I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:18.9	We all see the problems.
0:21.2	Are the Democrats now at a tipping point?
0:25.1	Is it time to blow up the ability of the minority
0:28.1	in the Senate to filibuster?
0:31.4	Parliamentary procedures.
0:32.8	It's not just one rule.
0:34.1	This basket of what enables a minority to force to all votes.
0:38.4	They've been around for a long time, almost as long as the Senate.
0:42.6	But for a long time, the Senate acted very differently than today.
0:47.3	It acted as a group of independent people who often put progress before party.
0:52.4	Filibusters were rare until the ugliness of racist resolve
0:56.9	that led us up to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
1:01.4	And thereafter, they were again rare,
1:04.0	sometimes weaponized, but often foregone in the interest of progress.
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