tied, by the way, to a confirmation bill that's scheduled thursday in the judiciary committee for his apf nominee. >> right. >> reporter: then you also see this playing out in the voting rights discussion, as well as the infrastructure talks. i think the president understands as much as anybody, how limited political capital is and is very careful about how he uses it. there are some progressives who are not happy that he hasn't been out there every day, the last days and week, to pound the republicans on this issue. the statement from the white house last night said he would speak more about this next week. hrs 1 is not necessarily the voting rights bill that joe biden would have written and knows it's doomed all along. this is the joe biden philosophy, one of those areas where you don't try to work with the republicans where opportunity, you try to go out and beat them. this is an issue for this year's administration that progressives might want to see him pounding the pavement now on. >> well, it's notable the white house chief of staff highlighted a comment on twitter about how much w

. >> these republican billionaires giving that money, they care about -- >> apf is not going to town on that issue. americans for prosperity, it's not a the koch brothers defeating. >> i don't know, do the koch brothers have any involvement in immigration? i would suspect they're favorable? toward more immigration in general. so it really shows that this is an issue that grassroots voters and the republican base care about. and they can be activated on it very cheaply. >> yes. and that's a big question here. that ever going to go a away? i remember covering this at the grass roots level the last time. you had this huge backlash. and it was the same grassroots backlash even when you had the chaim area and big establishment republicans who wanted to get that. getting that kind of anger in the republican base on this issue is not very hard to do. >> it's incredible when you think about a guy, a minority leader who had the power to help bring up an immigration bill who didn't, being beaten by people because they're angry about the possibility of an immigration bill coming up at some time

. >> i know more about the constitutionality and the apf organization or lack thereof. that piece is amazing journalism, and they are taking something we don't fully understand, put in the work to help us see the truth. >> absolutely. >> we learned this week that the federal society with once again conserve tiff intellectual movements can appoint strict constructionism to the supreme court who look at the original intent and lang wanlgs of the constitution. it looks like they missed out once again. >> i'm not so sure about that. it will be so interesting to see what the roberts' courts look like in the wake of this. there's one interpretation this was just what he was persuade by. if others say he was storing up reputational capital, which he'll begin to spend over what will be one of the longest terms as supreme court justice in the nation's history if not theç youngest. my thanks to congresswoman yvette clarke, democrat from new york, and thank you to all of you for getting up. >>> thank you for joining us today for "up." joining us tomorrow morning at 8:00. i'll ha

the french news agency apf obtained this photograph from the rebels themselves who took it with a cell phone camera. they believe that it's proof that khaddafy was either very severely injured or dead or may have been injured and then died. that could also be part of the confusion. >> okay. >> all right. so we're still waiting obviously for confirmation from the white house but the photo does help point to potentially a confirmation of what we've been covering all morning which is that transitional forces had a confrontation with moamar khaddafy, shot him. the first report was that he was wounded in two legs. the second report was that he was wounded in both legs and shot in the head. the third report that we're still working on confirming beyond reuters is that he has been killed. we've been watching the jubilations in the street of sirte where khaddafy was aparentally fleeing and talking about the potential implications, a clear angle of what, alex? oh, okay. apaparently you need to be clea to go do a special report. >> also a senior rebel commander is telling uses that khaddafy has