All right, welcome to the Young Turks, Jake Eugur, and I'm

going to explain with you guys giant show ahead for you. Actually, giant network for you guys not a big deal, but today we launched Indusputable with Dr. Rashad Richey.

That's the 230 PM Eastern now. So you can check it out here if you're watching on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, etc. But make sure that you're going to the his own YouTube channel now where it is primarily being broadcast.

That's at youtube.com slash Indusputable TYT. I was on with them today with a great, great show. I hope you guys get a chance to check that out.

And by the way, John Iderola on old school tonight, so fun for everybody. So huge parts of the network, including this show that we colloquially call the main show.

And Anna Cusperine, who we don't call the main host, but we should. So Casper. All right, well a lot of news broke over the weekend, including an op-ed that Senator Joe Manchin wrote. So let's discuss that.

In a new op-ed, penned by conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. He argues that he will not be supporting the For the People Act, which of course is a robust election reform bill that it has already passed in the house.

And he says that he plans to maintain the Senate filibuster, which requires 60 votes in order to pass any piece of legislation. In essence, it will block any type of legislation that the Biden administration at least pretends wants to pass.

Now of course, there are exceptions when it comes to reconciliation, which allows some legislation to pass with a simple majority. But whenever you have discussions about that, all of a sudden you hear the Democrats talk about the Senate parliamentarian,

who says there are limits to that. Obviously that's arbitrary, could be overruled, but Democrats don't do it. Now his op-ed in case you guys want to read this garbage is in the Charleston Gazette mail and it's titled, why I'm voting against the For the People Act?

And here's the hollow argument he makes. Unfortunately, we now are witnessing that the fundamental right to vote has itself become an overtly politicized.

Today's debate about how to best protect our right to vote and to hold elections, however, is not about finding common ground, but seeking partisan advantage.

Whether it is the state laws that seek to needlessly restrict voting or politicians who ignore the need to secure our elections, partisan policy making won't instill confidence in our democracy, it will destroy it.

And then he goes on to argue this, and it's incredibly frustrating that he continues to do this. I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason I will vote against the For the People Act.

Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster. Now the reason why I say these arguments are hollow is because he has been proven on multiple occasions that Republicans are not in fact good faith actors.

And they do not take part in good faith negotiations. After securing concessions on behalf of Senate Republicans, not a single one of them voted in favor of the stimulus relief bill that Biden had put forward.

And of course, he couldn't get Republicans to vote in favor of a commission to investigate the rights that took place in the nation's capital on January 6th.

The real reasoning has to do with money and politics and who butters Joe Manson's bread. And Jane Mayer from the New Yorker had a fantastic piece about that.

I will give you the details, but Jank, I wanted to give you a chance to jump in first.

Yeah, so if you're part of the press and you're continuing to marise that Joe Manson's representing his voters, please stop and do your job. So I see it all the time. It's because he's from West Virginia. It's a very red state voter for Trump. So that's why he has to do this. Wait, wait, that editorial was about for the people act.

For the people act in West Virginia has popularity of 71%. Well, okay, let's be fair now. Trump won the state big. Well, first of all, that is the whole state, 71% of the whole state. But okay, let's look at the Trump voters.

66% say yes. It's the only democratic legislation that they support. That's not true. The other one they support in West Virginia, $15 million wage.

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