Voting rights bill dead after Senate Republicans block it

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Senate Republicans blocked a signature Democratic voting and election bill during a key test vote. Democrats were united in favor of the bill after securing support from Sen. Joe Manchin. Democratic Sen. Chris Coons joins AC360 to discuss the vote and says he doesn’t know if “there’s anything we can do to get Republicans on board with protecting access to the ballot with voting rights.” Plus, Dr. Anthony Fauci called the Delta coronavirus variant, the “greatest threat” in the country’s fight against Covid-19. Dr. Paul Offit is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He tells Anderson Cooper we aren’t helpless here, “just get vaccinated.” Airdate: June 22, 2021 Guests: Sen. Chris Coons Dr. Paul Offit 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	Good evening.
0:04.0	We begin tonight with breaking news, Senate Republicans tonight unified and blocking
0:07.8	further action on sweeping voting legislation back by Democrats.
0:11.8	By withholding the 10 votes needed to break a filibuster, though, they didn't really vote
0:15.7	the bill down.
0:16.7	In order they vote against having a vote on the bill, all they did, which was enough
0:20.9	under the rules of the Senate, was to defeat a motion to proceed with S1, what Democrats
0:27.0	called the For the People Act.
0:29.2	In other words, agree or disagree with what's in the bill, what Republicans did tonight
0:33.3	was foreclose any possibility of even opening debate on it.
0:37.7	Now none of this was unexpected or particularly unusual, except perhaps for the degree of nothing
0:43.2	to see here, folks, coming from minority leader Mitch McConnell.
0:47.0	Nothing to see in his view and nothing for the federal government to do about it.
0:52.2	I'm okay with the state sorting this sort of stuff out.
0:56.0	You know the most important election in the country is the presidential election.
1:00.2	It's not decided in Congress, it's decided in the electoral college.
1:04.5	Those are state by state decisions.
1:08.0	And so regardless of what may be happening in some state, there's no rationale for federal
1:15.9	intervention.
1:16.9	They'll figure it all out.
1:18.3	They'll go to court.
1:19.6	They'll determine whether or not there's any rational basis for this.
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