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>> senator chuck schumer said the senate will take up voting rights next week but without support from senators sinema and joe manchin to change senate rules, that measure is most likely to fail. daniela diaz is with us from capitol hill. run us through what were expecting here. >> reporter: originally the senate was supposed to take up the voting rights legislation this week. instead of having their scheduled recess next week, theyre going to come back on tuesday and theyre planning to take up ...

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Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights groups argued is vital for protecting democracy was blocked Wednesday by a Republican filibuster, a setback for President Joe Biden and his party after a raw, emotional debate. Democrats were poised to immediately pivot to voting on a Senate rules change as a way to overcome the filibuster and approve the bill with a simple majority.

Took vote for a rules change in the senate so that they could try to pass voting rights with a simple majority with the 61 votes rather than the 60 needed. that would require all democratic senators to get behind those. right now, senator joe manchin do not support that carve out to pass legislation that would require some sort of bipartisan support. they are very strong on their opinion. continuing to be optimistic that they could change their mind and negotiate especially behind closed doors t...

Families are feeling on prescription drugs, child care and other costs. >> can i just ask you though, senator, on voting rights, look, you have 50 votes for that legislation. senator manchin was one of the co-authors and kind of the -- kind of the revisd version of that. you do not have 50 votes for even a carve out or a change in the filibuster as senator manchin said before you went before time. it would have to be bipartisan for a rules change. how do you square that in the next three or four...

Black caucus as republican-led states -- even for a rules change, which majority leader schumer said he wants to take up in the new year, you need all 50 senate democrats on board. sinema and manchin still want to move in a bipartisan way. as we stand now, we dont see ten republicans joining that effort. >> julie tsirkin and monica alba, thank you. were joined by democratica. thanks for being with us this weekend. if your colleague, jim jordan, does not voluntarily appear for questioning befor...

We as democrats 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 he needs plus kamala harris but hell have a vote on a rules change if necessary to have a vote on voting rights. >> yeah. well, i also recently had a conversation with senator manchin actually about voting rights and i can tell you i think he feels very strongly about voting rights. hes a former secretary of state. he recognizing some things happening in t...

>> one, joe manchins name is on this bill, joyce. so we have to be honest about this. but number two, joy, im in the middle of this every single day. >> yeah. >> and im not going to give up, and im not going to give up on all the people that are going to be hurt by this. its bob dole that once said were a first class democracy, and we shouldnt treat people like second class citizens, which is whats going on right now with whats happening in the states on voting. but right now we are making the c...

One senator even presented a powerpoint presentation trying to show them what a rules change could look like on this if they were to go forward. again, this is a case of urgency running into the reality up here on the hill. and thats also the case of whats happening with the "build back better" agenda. that is the other intractable issue for the democratic caucus that is linking its way into next year because there is not a strategy to actually get it done before the close of this year. in terms...

Facilitate a workaround that will allow voting rights to pass? i want to read you a little bit of what manchin had to say today. all of my discussions have been bipartisan. republicans and democrats. a rules change should be done to where we all have input in this rules change, because were going to have to live with it. and so, again, it seems like hes not yet 100% committed to this rules change, but he wants to get some republican buy-in into it. >> right, ayman, and look, senator manchin is s...