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Vaccine or not. these are the ones that are going home, though. >> lets talk about the reporting in the "new york times." even in louisiana, "new york times" says that demand for the shots has nearly quadrupled in recent weeks, a glimmer that the deadly reality of the virus might be breaking through a logjam of misunderstanding and misinformation. two distinct pieces of information were getting, lots and lots of covid in areas where people have not been vaccinated and lots of vaccinations coming...

People act, for us to get a bill on the presidents desk, which we know he will sign. so i just want everybody to know we are not giving up the fight. theres been a lot of focus on infrastructure lately, but voting rights continues to be a top priority. we hope to unveil a new proposal in maybe the next week. >> talk to me about that. what do you do? we do have two proposals there already. what do you do to break the logjam here, a, with republicans, but, b, with some people in the democratic par...

M today president biden will host business and labor leaders at the white house as his infrastructure bill hits a major logjam with republicans on the hill. gop lawmakers blocking the bill yesterday in its first congressional vote, and now pushing for a little more time to write the legislation and debate it. cnns ryan nobles is on capitol hill. what is the latest on these talks today? >> reporter: theyre still talking, and i think it is the most important part of the negotiations. we knew fro...

Thats what im talking about right there. >> rena, i see maz is fired up, even though hes mixing his sports metaphors. ill forgive you for that once. you went from boxing to baseball to football, and i think you were on your way to rhythmic gymnastics if i hadnt stopped you. but i understand where youre going, that theres this push to do something. and i wonder if that is the issue, is that its not so much about the parties at their edges but the senators that are closer to the middle or carved o...

Reform bill that does appear to be stuck in the senate. it is unclear if that logjam will be broken now that the senators are back in washington. they are an advocate of that, and along with calling for the local departments to add more police officers, they are encouraging a lot of the community programs that advocates are calling for the help formerly incarcerated people to come into society for summer programs with kids and the direction, and keep them from getting into the trouble. and so th...

Breaking the logjam on some of these voting rights agos in congress. how big of a focal point was changing the filibuster rules during that conversation? >> let me just characterize our position as civil rights leaders, the national urban league and all of the organizations that were represented there in a frank, candid and intense meeting, because i do think that the president and the vice president share our sense that this is an emergency, that democracy is indeed under attack and our point o...

A compromise. the problem is that those republicans who are willing to come in for a compromise have to appease their own conservative base. and so i think he inadvertently ended up making them feel embarrassed or that they had been, you know, gamed or something like that, and that becomes a problem for them. it becomes a face-saving issue for them. there are so many nuances the kind of rhetoric of holding this deal together. like i think ultimately this depends, the success of the viability of ...

Biden is sticking with bipartisan talks. >> theres no, you know, hard wire deadline. we are doing the work of legislating. this is a big week. >> reporter: biden is scheduled to speak with shelley moore capito early this week as the two sides remain in different universes on a potential deal. the call will be the first since biden rejected outright the gop proposal to increase its offer which roughly $50 billion. >> he certainly is eager to see what -- what can -- what that discussion can entail...

Dangerous thing in this country and no one is speaking up about it. because theyre paralyzed by fear. ill just add one more thing. the republicans really have become the party that fears facts and science, that they dont want to let the kind of studies go forward because theyre not confident in their own position. they know that theyre -- their own electeds are far away from where their own people are on this. so we really have to break that logjam somehow. but as long as theres the united front...

Every district office -- >> yeah, thats sort of -- >> every county fair. >> thats part of the question im trying to engage you on is, im just curious because youre in this fight and youre an activist in this fight. is the better tack to have -- to get them back from recess and have this vote the week of the mass shootings and try to use the pressure that way or is it to flood the zone out there and put pressure on for weeks and then bring them back? the reason why i ask that is -- the reason why...