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Trumps big lie. and they all demand the same solution. the senate must advance legislation to protect our democracy and safeguard the right to vote. >> but when democrats talk about saving democracy and preventing another january 6 from happening again are they talking about combating republican efforts to subvert future election results? are they talking about expanding and protecting access to the ballot box? are they talking about campaign finance reforms, voting rights, election administrati...

Vice president harris on tuesday. what can we expect to hear from him? >> reporter: vice president harris tasked by president biden to work with congress and get voting rights legislation across the finish line. this speech is huge for president biden. he is pubbed and pressured by activists and advocates and voters to get there and get in front of the issue. when he give it is speech in georgia, it is in the backdrop of these voting fixes that will republican-led legislatures to looking to make...

Senate rule changes, in order to get essential voting rights legislation passed. theyve reportedly listed the likes of bill clinton and oprah to try to convince him. the most productive discussions are said to be between manchin and fellow centrist democrats, some of whom only recently changed their minds on filibuster reform. from politico, senator tim kaine likened it to the effort of his 27-hour drive to washington, earlier this week, after a snowstorm devastated i-95. slow progress to articl...

Senators. how is that all playing out on the hill? >> well, don, were pretty much right where weve been kind of all along. its not really moving the needle. the fact remains these bills do not have the votes to pass and that the democrats dont have the support, as john just laid out, to make those 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 these bills...

Joe manchin has been fine with different rule changes, for instance having a talking filibuster or demanding that you have enough members there to on the floor at all times to block the legislation. that wont get legislation passed. not much more the president can say. he has able to twist arms. hes done that for weeks and hasnt made progress. >> kevin mccarthy and the january 6th committee, what is going on with that, sam? >> mccarthy is not going to participate in a voluntary request to talk t...

He said is the filibuster. >> for our republican colleagues to vane outraged by preserving the rules and norms of the senate, i asked them to think back to a year ago this week. where were these precious rules and norms when the leader of the republican party, then president trump, plotted an overthrow of the government by disrupting the senate business. where were these rules and norms when some of our colleagues echoed the big lie that led to the bloody insurrection. where were these rules and...

Which of these rule changes are the ones they think are most likely to get the votes necessary to put into practice? >> no. and we hear people here on the hill talk about trying to put pain in the filibuster, making people go through and talk on the senate floor, making it so its not just a threat but something they actually have to carry through on. that idea of a talking filibuster is one potential reform just to try to make that a more solid threat. theres also the idea that some people have ...

Mcconnell threatening to shut the senate down if democrats nuke the 60-vote rule. >> what would post-nuclear senate look like? it would not be more efficient. do we understand how many things would need a recall vote. >> todd: are we about to see the end of a filibuster. one democratic senator says not so fast. >> we need good rule changes, getting rid of the filibuster doesnt make it work better. >> todd: manchin talks about resistance, there is deadline to pass voting religion or vote to chang...

Rights legislation as well as the senate rule changes. the king family will join house speaker nancy pelosi here in washington as well to keep up the pressure on lawmakers to make this their top priority. they will start their march at the frederick douglass memorial bridge sending a message saying, look you fought for these bridges, now fight for voting rights. get done. >> jessica. suzanne malvo for us on capitol hill. thanks so much. we have much more in our newsroom ahead. i always dreamed o...

This week in the united states senate. if republicans choose to continue the filibuster. the filibuster of voting rights legislation. we must consider and vote on the rule changes, that are a pro period and necessary, to restore the senate and make voting legislation possible. >> partisan election takeover bills that democrats want to ram through this week, are not, not in any way successors of the civil rights legislation from the mid 20th century. some of our colleagues across the aisle reconf...