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>> why is voting rights so important for the senate to address now? >> because it is absolutely essential to our democracy. if we do not pass this legislation, its clear that the republicans will try to undermine our democracy, as they did on january 6th. >> now, all eyes are on the senate as majority leader schumer promises a vote on a rule change to bypass the filibuster to get voting rights legislation across the finish line. joining our panel to discuss, former florida congresswoman debbie m...

And sinema made it clear yesterday not even the president would change her stance on keeping the senate rules as they are, which means the partys voting rights agenda is likely going nowhere. im joined by garrett haake. garrett, before i get into todays retirement news of the day which -- its not a democrat this time. well get to that in a second. color me a bit skeptical. are they really going to do this on tuesday and wednesday and thursday? im staring at january 20th. i can see that from my h...

Americans to use the tools that we know work, which is boosters, vaccines, masking. >> phil rucker, lets talk about what we heard from chuck schumer today and -- dear colleague letter and. no later than january 6th martin luther king is trying to get a vote that deals with this filibuster that is stopping so much legislation from going on on the basis of it being about voting rights and democracy itself. he is hoping that -- two democratic senators come around, but he doesnt know that theyre goi...

Appease trump. still, trump is continuing to unload on mcconnell. >> why is it that you think that the vast majority of your allies in the united states senate are not standing behind you? we did have that statement by mike rounds. >> because mitch mcconnell is a loser and frankly, mitch mcconnell, if he were on the other side and if schumer were put in his position, he would have been fighting this like youve never seen before. he would have been fighting this. >> well, lets go to cnn reporter ...

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Literally on hold as theyre going to bes senate majority leader chuck schumer was again forced to rescind a promise he and democrats could not keep because, in part, of other democrats unable to get two voting rights bills passed this week in advance of mondays observance of dr. martin luther king jr.s life. schumer now insists that the debate on those bills will begin the next day, and that democrats will be able to maneuver past a republican filibuster with a simple majority. of course, one wo...

With my thoughts. how about asking a simple question. the president was talking about voting rights. anyone who disagrees name me the law across the country that disenfranchises minority voters or roll us back to the wallace days. >> harris: they thought they had found it in georgia. it backfired when the mlb pulled its game from there and put it in colorado and the restrictions in colorado are tougher than in georgia for early voting. look at the state of delaware where the president spends 20%...

They now do so with joe manchin support. they dont have 50 votes for how to get there. any process reforms, rules changes that would be necessary to pass such a bill over united republican opposition. thats the situation they found themselves in late last year. and its where they remain early this year. up until now, chuck schumer has been reluctant to vote on things where he knew he would split his caucus, where he would see perhaps joe manchin or kyrsten sinema fall off. this is one of potenti...

>> yeah, its, you know, im not sure what the end game is here either. there are different ways this vote can happen. >> how convoluted could it get? >> well, well have some reporting on that, too. i dont want to give away too much. different ways this could happen. but here a couple things here. one, they werent this close on the filibuster last year. its a fair point to make in schumers defense and the white house defense. there were a number of democrats who would have opposed it at that time ...

Sno manchin and sinema in meetings and talks to get them to change the mind about going it alone and doing this in a partisan matter. president biden is turning to voting rights and needs their support to change the rules which majority leader schumer said could come up for a vote as early as this week. >> julie, talk about january 6 quickly. the committee wanted to request former vice president mike pence testimony by the end of the month. >> reporter: yeah. bennie thompson said well know this ...