in cloafg, in 18 -- in closing, in 1805 vice president aaron burr suggested that the senate remove from its rules the previous question motion which allowed the chamber's simple majority to end debate on a bill. he viewed the rule as completely unnecessary and urged the senate to clean up its rule book because after everyone spoke and debated, they'd vote. a year later the senate removed the previous question motion, leaving a loophole that allowed the minority to take advantage and use what we now know is the filibuster. unfortunately, byrd could not foresee the obstructionism of decades to come. proslavery senators co-opted the filibuster to protect the interests of white southern enslavers. men such as january calhoun eabd the filibuster. 30 measures favored by the sitting president, simple majorities in the house and senate, half of which addressed civil rights, they all died thanks to the filibuster. the same procedural tool proved to be even more useful to southern senators who sought to block civil rights legislation, including anti-lynching bills. not until 1964 did the senate s

donald trump is aaron burr, or lyndon ruch. so, biden has an opening here, saying, i am the custodian of american democracy. our institutions, the constitution. not being so worried about getting every little deal done, but assume mega leadership biden, that he is the defender of all that we hold so near and dear. i don't have to tell you, not all americans. many americans don't think see the attack on january six as a significant. what is the risk if americans become more desensitized what happened on that day. >> i think a whole generation of younger people don't remember wet american democracy is. we can look at these norman rockwell paintings of the four freedoms, or listen to speeches about it. i'm afraid we're of generation raised with iphones in the internet, where conspiracy theories abound, where misinformation is the stock in trade. this makes it a particularly difficult time to be joe biden. but he has to rise to the occasion. he potentially is going to be a very historic president. but i think he wanted to come into

burr of all people. so it's really such a shame that history has been so distorted in this debate. >> we're going to squeeze in a commercial break here in our live coverage of this situation. and when we come back, we're going to come back to that point that president biden made today in his press conference that this is not over. in the president's televised press conference today he said they will come back at the voting rights issue after this vote tonight. we'll be right back. e after this vote tonight we'll be right back. ♪ ♪taking a break from all your worries ♪ ♪sure would help a lot ♪ ♪wouldn't you like to get away? ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes you want to go ♪ ♪where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪ ♪and they're always glad you came ♪ [bacon sizzles] [bacon sizzles] ♪ [electronic music plays] ♪ [bacon sizzles] ♪ [electronic music plays] ♪ woo! who's on it with jardiance? we're 25 million prescriptions strong. ♪ [electronic music plays] ♪ we're managing type 2 diabetes..

donald trump is aaron burr or la ruche. biden has an opening here to see i'm the custodian of american democracy and not be so worried about getting every little deal done on capitol hill, but assume a mega leadership biden, that he is the defender of what we hold near and deer many americans don't see the attack on january 6th as significant. what is the risk if americans become more desensitize today what happened on that day? >> i think a whole generation of younger people don't remember what american democracy is. i mean, we can look at these norman rockwell paintings of the four freedoms or listen to speeches about it. i'm afraid we're a generation raised with iphones and the internet, where conspiracy theories abound, where misinformation is the stock and trade. this makes it a particularly hard time to be joe biden. but he has to rise to the occasion. he potentially is going to be a historic president, but i think he wanted to come into office as the good guy, i like ike, i like joe. he wanted to be like gerald ford

when the senate wrote these rules, aaron burr was around, he said you don't have to explain that, it's obvious. well, it wasn't obvious. for a long time there was no way to stop debate. and then eventually it was 70 votes, and it became used as a tool against people who want civil rights legislation. and finally it got to 60 votes. so now it is time to carve it out for things that are essential to our democracy. it's been done before. frankly, my brother harry reid did it, and i supported it for nominations, including lower court judges. we kept it for the supreme court. what's the first thing mitch mcconnell did? he took it away for the supreme court, so they've been able to stack the court with fewer than 60, way fewer than 60 votes. so there you go. it's time to change it. knowing chuck schumer the way i do, it would be hard for me to believe he doesn't have the votes lined up for something, to make it a talking filibuster. it would be hard for me to believe he would put something in writing if he wasn't sure he had the votes. >> i want to hear more of your thinking on that. it can

it was called -- it was a musical by aaron burr was vice president shot and killed hamilton line "some day you are going to blow us all away" alex ander hamilton a great figure but really? that is how you chief to commemorate this. >> i did not know that, i didn't -- i did not see the i did not know that, and that -- that is -- he -- >> the aaron burr singing to little child some day you are going to blow us all away. dagen: he shot and killed alex ander hamilton. >> that is how he we remember january 6? tone-deaf. dagen: james, john we have a big hour coming up you two sit right to there special coverage december jobs' report starts right now. . dagen: good morning, everyone. i am dagen mcdowell jobs friday top stories kamala harris trying to have last laugh admitting to pbs a level of malaise among americans are he pandemic, laughed asked about number of employees leaving. >> there have been a rash of stories about dissension inside your office white house questions about your role about what would you say of you learn over this year. >> one of the thingsive learned to get out of d.c

in cloafg, in 18 -- in closing, in 1805 vice president aaron burr suggested that the senate remove from its rules the previous question motion which allowed the chamber's simple majority to end debate on a bill. he viewed the rule as completely unnecessary and urged the senate to clean up its rule book because after everyone spoke and debated, they'd vote. a year later the senate removed the previous question motion, leaving a loophole that allowed the minority to take advantage and use what we now know is the filibuster. unfortunately, byrd could not foresee the obstructionism of decades to come. proslavery senators co-opted the filibuster to protect the interests of white southern enslavers. men such as january calhoun eabd the filibuster. 30 measures favored by the sitting president, simple majorities in the house and senate, half of which addressed civil rights, they all died thanks to the filibuster. the same procedural tool proved to be even more useful to southern senators who sought to block civil rights legislation, including anti-lynching bills. not until 1964 did the senate s

so in 1805 when aaron burr directed the rewriting of the rules said we never used the rules so let's take it out because we all listen to each other before we vote. that's a big positive. every member should be heard in this chamber. every member should be able to participate and have the ability to put amendments forward, have their voice heard. we should not become the house. the house of representatives, the majority runs over the top of the minority. it is a better chamber for having the voices of minority and majority weighing in on legislation, have amendments from both parties being considered. that is the reinvigoration of the filibuster in its best light. a year ago and one day a mob attacked the presidential election. but in that ensuing year we've had 19 states attack federal elections for house and senate members by changing the rules in their state prejudicially to try to block the young, the college students, the tribal members and the black americans from voting. it is wrong, but it's happening and it's on our shoulders, our responsibility to stop them. earlier i refer

so in 1805, when aaron burr was in charge of rewriting the rule book, said we don't use this rule. we don't need this rule. we have a social contract. we listen to everybody and then have a simple majority vote as our founders designed the senate. no need. we hadn't had a rule that essentially enabled this body to come to a vote in that period from 1805 through 1917. so it is true that the bill was delayed for one week, but the new congress immediately came in, created a new rule to close debate, closed debate on that bill, and passed the bill to arm ships. so only real thing that was crushed in those years from 1891 through 1965 was voting rights for black americans. because the idea that you would prevent a simple majority vote as our founders intented was piracy. well, in 1965, we passed voting rights and the national consensus is we are putting discrimination behind us, and manipulation on election day behind us and everybody will have a fair opportunity to vote. and so it was no longer primarily an instrument to crush the voting rights of black americans and they said maybe i