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Change the filibuster. do his constituents support him on this? >> exactly. joe manchin has suggested that hes open to some senate rule changes, but not the one that would ultimately allow these major pieces of voting rights reforms to pass. and when you talk about joe manchin, this is a senator here in the state of west virginia, which voted for donald trump by 39 percentage points, just in 2020. a senator that we are going to be talking about for years to come, because this is a moment in whic...

Senators. how sis it playing on the hill? >> we have been where we have been all along. the fact remains the bills do not have the votes to pass, and that the democrats dont have the support, as john just laid out to make the rule changes in order to move forward on any of this. so thats kind of the state of play as things are right now. we do know the senate majority leader chuck schumer has promised to bring them back for a vote by martin luther king jr. day, in a few days, and not that long f...

Passed which led us very clear we on "morning joe" for over a year have said they needed to do these voting rights bills before they did bbb and infrastructure and this should be a top priority. when i asked this question, i am not asking it because i believe democrats should be playing by the rules. i think they should fight like republicans. what do you think hes going to achieve doing that? >> i was in atlanta and it was out of character. i gasped when he made the comparison invoking mcconnel...

About the key roadblock, the filibuster. >> for our republican colleagues to feign outrage, i would like them to think about to a year ago this week. where were the rules when some of our colleagues echoed the big lie that led to the bloody insurrection and where were the rules and norms when some members of the republican party endorsed installing donald trump to the presidency against the will of the american people. >> governor patrick, senate democrats are discussing various rule changes but...

It now open to sounds, like joe changing the manchin, senate rules to is now open to check allow the senate to vote on voting rights are you open to. changing the rules, or the structure of the filibuster to do that? >> well, first of all, voting, just voting is the bedrock of democracy. if you can make the senate work better, the rules are something we changed over the years, theres been rule changes. but theres never been a change with the filibuster, the rights for the minority. i make no com...

Manchin, kaine, trying to get up for this meeting, too. >> trying to make this meeting. part of the reason the meeting is pushed back is because senator kaine is still stuck on i-95 for 27 hours. as far as senator manchin is concerned, part of the question earlier today. he continues to be resistant to these rule changes, but hes been involved in these negotiations and these conversations for longer than a month now. he was talking to his colleagues over the holiday. he is part of this meeting w...

Focus to voting rights presents risks to the president who needs support from kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, but theyre resisting changes in the filibuster rule. >> we need new rule changes but f the filibuster doesnt make it work better. >> reporter: it frustrates civil rights leaders like cliff albright who decided to skip the speech today saying mr. biden isnt fighting hard enough. >> you cant run on the presidency because you have four decades in senate and then you cant whip two votes. tha...

Something at critical at protecting our democracy the senate will debate and consider changes to the rules on or before january 17th. >> didnt take long for senate minority leader mitch mcconnell to give his response to the plan saying a couple minutes ago basically, nope. no way. one of senator schumers colleagues he has to worry more about. guess who? west virginia senator joe manchin reiterating really hesitant pulling the trigger on those rule changes. following this, you caught up hi senato...

Now, andrea. >> and as well the closing minute weve got, less than a minute actually, the presidents going to go to the senate lunch tomorrow and make another appeal for voting rights and to try to get manchin and sinema, some would argue the emotional he was at could have shut the door for manchin and sinema. >> hes a person thats spent 30 years in the senate and in the house, we changed the rules in 1975. i dont want to get too much in the details, but we changed the rules of the filibuster in...

That and how theyre moving closer to that. there still remains very direct opposition from joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. manchin has said hes potentially open to some rule changes, but what is exactly and how would they move forward? so we just kind of end up right back where the circle began. >> you know, john, president biden linked the whole idea of voting rights to the insurrection. watch this. >> today we come to atlanta, the cradle of civil rights, to make clear what must come after that...