Sinema pulls stunning move ahead of voting rights vote
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Kyrsten Sinema drops a bomb on Democrats as they seek to pass voting rights legislation. Brian interviews Congressman Adam Schiff about his thoughts on Sinema’s failure to vote for filibuster reform and what other avenue we can take to protect voting rights. And MSNBC and Peacock’s Mehdi Hasan joins to discuss what the media’s role is in promoting the White House's accomplishments and how Democrats contend with the Republicans’ media ecosystem.
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| 0:12.9 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | Today, we're going to talk about Kiersten Sinema dropping a bomb on Democrats as they seek |
| 0:23.4 | to pass voting rights legislation and where we go from here. |
| 0:26.3 | I interview Congressman Adam Schiff about his thoughts on Sinema's failures to vote for |
| 0:29.9 | Philbuster Reform and what other avenue we can take to protect voting rights. |
| 0:33.8 | And I'm joined by MSNBC and Peacock's Medihocson to discuss what the media's role is in promoting |
| 0:38.9 | the White House's accomplishments and how Democrats can contend with the Republican |
| 0:42.5 | media ecosystem. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:49.5 | So if you listen to this podcast regularly, you know that all roadily to voting rights. |
| 0:53.7 | That issue is foundational. |
| 0:55.4 | It's the one issue that everything else relies upon. |
| 0:57.6 | If your thing is healthcare or climate or women's rights or workers rights, whatever it is, |
| 1:03.1 | it all rests on Democrats being able to be empowered to actually make those changes. |
| 1:07.6 | And so in order to pass voting rights, we need to carve out on the Philbuster, meaning |
| 1:11.6 | that all 50 Senate Democrats have to agree to that rules change. |
| 1:14.7 | And this past week, as Joe Biden was making his way to meet with Senate Democrats about |
| 1:18.4 | this very issue, Kiersten Sinema took to the Senate floor and did this. |
| 1:22.7 | And on January 6th, last year, I was standing in this very spot, speaking in this very chamber, |
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