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Move forward in a practical way. im from texas and i remember when george w. bush was the governor and we had a democratic speaker of the house and they -- they didnt agree and they fought in public sometimes but they got together and they got things done in the state, and so, yes, on the face of it, good ideas there, but, you know, lets get into the -- the nitty gritty and actually get things done and i think that, you know, hes got -- hes got to work to get it done, hopefully he can. anita: no...

That would safeguard electoral college vote certification. we have the latest from capitol hill. big picture, where does this voting rights effort stand on the eve of the presidents speech? weve seen this renewed determination from democrats but determination does not a plan to get votes make. >> we saw this in december as we left for the year. now coming into 2022, youre sort of in an instance on capitol hill of the more thing things change, the more they stay the same in an a dynamic and actio...

Finish line. here we go again. this time its voting rights. forceful speech, an about face on the filibuster, a trip to capitol hill and a white house meeting with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema tonight. and after all that looks like hes doomed to fail. >> i hope we can get this done, but im not sure. i dont know we can get it done, but i know one thing. as long as i have a breath in me, as long as im in the white house, as long as im engaged at all im going to be fighting to change the way thes...

Appeal to senate democrats to change the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. >> like every other major civil rights bill that came along, if we miss the first time, we can come back and try it a second time. we missed this time. >> reporter: while he arrived on capitol hill to a standing ovation, the president left empty handed. >> i dont know that we can get it done, but i know one thing. as long as i have a breath in me. as long as im in the white house, as long as im engaged at all,...

Only as a way to persuade in the moment, but to be kind of in the ark of history, if he cant get it done, he will at least have expended at much of his energy and capital trying to get it done. >> i want to play, though, some comments from mitt romney because i have to say in this era when you get a response from mitt romney on a subject like this, i wonder if anybody in the white house thinks it may be they could have handled this differently. let me play you what romney said. >> he said that t...

That republicans are unanimously opposed to this voting rights package that democrats are trying to get done. which means if you do want to get it done, democrats would have to change the rules, you would need all democrats to support that. you know thats where this issue s. we heard and ive heard behind the scenes discussion that there are more than just senators manchin and sinema that might oppose a rules change. are you confident that its just those two who will defect from the democratic po...

Finish line. here we go again. this time its voting rights. forceful speech, an about face on the filibuster, a trip to capitol hill and a white house meeting with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema tonight. and after all that looks like hes doomed to fail. >> i hope we can get this done, but im not sure. i dont know we can get it done, but i know one thing. as long as i have a breath in me, as long as im in the white house, as long as im engaged at all im going to be fighting to change the way thes...

Because, yeah, i mean in the winter, covid spikes, but we dont know whats going to be happening around covid in july. so they need to be preparing for that. if inflation doesnt go down, they need to be preparing to make sure there is money in the american peoples pocket. maybe thats by passing the build back better plan. they need to make sure they can deliver so many things that those voters came out to vote for them in 2020. it hasnt been a great week for the president. many presidents dont ha...

Legislation through the senate because of senate rules. and he does not have the support from these two senators, manchin and sinema to change those rules so they can pass those rights with a 51 vote simple majority. take a look at what he told supporters with democratic senators yesterday on capitol hill. >> i hope we can get this done, but im not sure. i dont know that we can get it done, but i know one thing. as long as i have a breath in my, as long as i am in the white house, as long as im ...

What happens is, the rest of the world does what im doing and provide significant amounts of the vaccine to the rest of the world. because its not sufficient that we just have this country not have the virus or be able to control the virus, but that we pull the wall high enough to keep the variant out. so it requires one of the things that i want to do and we were contemplating figuring out how to do it, and we were contemplating how to get it done, and that is how do we move in a direction wher...