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Slowly as senate democrats negotiated aspects of president bidens build back better bill, but with the bbb on the back burner voting rights are at the top of the agenda. daniella diaz joins us live. democrats have set a tight deadline, the senate majority leader chuck schumer, expecting a vote on this in about eight days from now? >> reporter: yes. i want to clarify, boris, that would be a vote on a rules change in the senate so that democrats could try to pass some sort of voting rights legisla...

Organizations putting pressure on majority leader schumer, on senate democrats to do something about it, and just this upcoming tuesday, president biden will actually devote an entire speech in atlanta to voting rights. now, the freedom to vote act, as i mentioned senator joe manchin co-authored it, but it still requires a rules change in order to get it across the finish line because it needs just democratic votes. they dont have ten republicans needed to pass it. i want you to take a listen to...

Will have a vote on a rules change. that doesnt mean he has the 50 votes, you only need a majority, doesnt mean he has the 50 that he needs plus kamala harris. he will have a vote on a rules change if necessary to have a vote on voting rights. >> yeah. i also recently had a conversation with senator manchin, actually, about voting rights. and i can tell you i think he feels strongly about voting rights, hes a former secretary of state. he recognizes some of the things that are happening in the s...

Been onboard for a rules change, and maybe among the most effective people lobbying these two hold-outs. and to see that jon tester is in that room, tim kaine, angus king, thats a very important part of that dynamic, along with elizabeth warren and others. >> oh, yeah. even just look at maggie hassan. sort of the prototypical moderate senate democratic and she is up for re-election, she is incredibly practical, she is a low-profile workhorse senator who concentrates on getting things done in new...

Leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill. this would be a significant rules change. not every democrat is on board. joe manchin is concerned about this. its an indication of just how seriously democrats are going to go after this voting rights issue. >> reporter: yeah. this is the farthest we have seen senator schumer go on this issue and a rules change. in the past, over the past several months, he has said he is keeping all of his options on the table. now he advocated for it. he made the case fo...

Sometime in the spring and plan to wrap up the investigation by the midterm elections. >> getting a sunday morning interview with the speaker of the house, go, julie. thank you. turning now to more on the voting rights battle and the biden agenda want to bring in geoff bennett. it is great to see you. thank you for joining us. >> you, as well. of course. >> we love having you. lets talk about this. julie laid it out. the presidents speech. we know what the president is going to lay out hire. t...

There are two senators that dont support a filibuster carve out. otherwise, changing senate rules instead of 60 votes, it would require simple majority or 51 votes to advance the legislation. these two senators that dont support this, kristen cinema and joe manchin. president biden seemed to acknowledge after meeting with the senate thursday that he knows it is an up hill climb, he knows it will be difficult to convince two senators to change their mind about the filibuster carve out. without th...

Freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. the two bills have a majority support to pass. they have the support of all 50 democrats. and the john lewis bill has the support of one republican. but they have no path around the 60 vote threshold which is guaranteed on the back end to end debate. republicans will block it, and for all the pressure, for all the pressure that activists have put on senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have been rock solid in support of th...

Chuck schumer before yesterday said all options were on the table including a rules change. but in this letter to his colleagues for the first time, he clearly laid out the case of why a rule change is necessary for a voting right, and so he seems determined to do that. he promised a debate on the senate floor and talks about changing rules if they continue to block issues on voting rights. you asked the right question. how is he going to get all 50 senators on board for changing the rules. stil...

You know, we dont want the president to come here unless he has a clear plan to getting voting legislation passed, and it doesnt appear that that is what the president is going to present today. hes here to lay out a vision, but not a plan. and these voting rights groups want to see a plan that can bring immediate action. >> sahil, let me go to you. one of the things mike talked about was this idea that maybe in the eyes of some, more public pressure on people like senator joe manchin could make...