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A controversial bill is causing the Nebraska Legislature to consider changes.

In that caucus meeting that indicates any kind of a path forward here? >> well, the key point he made and you just played it is he doesnt want the 60 votes to close debate to go to 50 votes, also vice president to close debate. but the talking filibuster doesnt do that. it leaves in place the 60-vote requirement. it has the same rules of debate that you have at any point. what the talking filibuster changes is it says, okay, weve come to the point we need to focus on the question of final passag...

Filibuster rules, and not enough to pass the legislation without it. the president argued on january 6th and earlier this week in georgia the laws must be passed because democracy is at risk. on tuesday, equating supporters of filibuster changes to icons of the civil rights movement and the opponents to segregationists and leader of the confederacy. even some democrats say that was the wrong move. >> perhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric, but fundamental principles and valu...

Insurrection. a day on which two democratic senators decided to throw voting rights under the bus, and the hand control of the senate to the minority party. will be discussing all of those huge, huge stories on the show tonight. including with senator chris murphy, in a moment. lets start with voting rights. the president was on capitol hill, meeting with senate democrats after calling for a filibuster changes, in a forceful speech on voting rights, this past tuesday, in georgia. >> so, i ask ev...

>> or the china thing. thats part of it strategy-wise. the poll numbers are hemorrhaging for this administration. listening to the vice president today in the interview today is quite something. she is not good in that back and forth. she hasnt been publicly and she started off saying im not going to absolve the republicans but good for craig melvin to push back about manchin and sinema. it is just not those two democratic senators who have problems with potential filibuster changes. we should m...

Wonderful statement of principles. conservative democrats joe manchin and krysten sinema came down against any filibuster changes without buy in from the same republicans that blocked not one or two but three efforts to even debate voting rights. and today without mentioning any senators by name, president biden laid out the stakes for every single one of them. >> history has never been kind to those who sided with voter suppression over voters rights, so i ask every elected official in america ...

With them on changing the filibuster today again. they effectively derailed their controversial voting legislation per push. in a month that is already seen the administration miss badly on a jobs report. watch the economy suffered its worst inflation and some 40 years, and do a record setting surgeon covert cases and an embarrassing short amount of covert testing shortages. in recent memory. now for the record and this is e expressed some new voting initiatives tampered by increased voting inte...

Members are on board. president biden making the case to reshape the filibuster. >> dont think this is a freebie. you dont get to vote this way and then somehow it goes away. >> but precisely as the president spoke, joe manchin sees the senate floor two and a half miles away at the capitol sealing hills position against filibuster changes. >> louing one party in the simple majority will only pour fuel on the fire political whiplash and dysfunction tearing this nation apart. jon tester is one fil...

Going to vote for filibuster changes. congressional correspondent chad pergram following all of that for us tonight on capitol hill. >> build back better stalled. new voting rights gridlocked. democrats tangling with each other. democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema wont change the filibuster icing voting rights the. the majority leader calling them out but not by name. >> there is some in our caucus who believes it helps bring us together. i dont see that evidence, evidence of that at all. >...

Yourself 1.75 trillion money. meantime, susan, you have got this battle for voting rights, and talking about changing the filibuster in some way they dont have manchin and sinema from arizona saying they dont want to do it that way. here is john yarmuth speaking about this. >> founding fathers never thought that the minority should prevail. thats what we are dealing with right now. we want to move this country forward, and if we want to save the democracy we have to make a change. do you think t...