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Somebody is going to offer you a half a loaf, youll say okay, lets think about it. the electoral count act. do you have more ten republicans that want to fix it? people agree it needs to be fixed. for doing these voting rules. it does seem as if, you know, i know senator schumer said no, he doesnt want to touch that because he thinks somehow its a replacement. why cant you say yes to both? >> i think we could. it is the case that its not a replacement, because the voting rights issues going on a...

One-vote spirit we know in the past weve seen some people on the right, and some on the left break ranks with their party an vote with the other party after a lot of debate, especially because they know perhaps that their constituency there constituency want this. joe manchin constituency has told them we want you to suppor voting rights. they want him to pass the legislative and they also wante them to pass the build back better. >> some of those ideas werent so popular. senator manchin said if...

Conference tomorrow to mark his first year in office. with me now, jake sherman, founder of punch bowl news, and an msnbc political contributor and jonathan lemire, politico white house bureau chief and host of msnbcs "way too early." thank you for being with me. jake, we know this effort is about appealing to the democratic base, but does it have the potential to create a split in the senate democratic caucus? i mean, theyre split in so many things, right? >> yeah, and it doesnt only have the p...

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The john lewis voting rights advancement exact and the act and the freedom to vote act. they have no way around the 60-vote threshold. senator chuck schumer, the majority leader, plans to call some form of a vote on a rules change, something to pierce the filibuster, to change the rules to allow these two bills to come up for that majority vote threshold. but its abundantly clear at this point that senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema, although they may support the bills, firmly oppose...

Tired of being quiet. president biden and senator schumer are in effect now asking for public pressure on joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. so >> i ask every elected official in america, how do you want to be remembered? consequential moments in history, they present a choice. do you want to be the side of dr. king, or george wallace? do you want to be on the side of john lewis, a bowl connor? do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln, or dress or some davis? this is the moment to decide. t...

>> todd: meanwhile, nancy pelosis she heard a clarion announcing house will vote today to clear the way for the senate to act, saying in a dear colleague letter, president biden made it crystal clear must sign legislation into law issue house democrats will take a step to send the freedom to vote john r. lewis act to the senate for consideration. what happens next in the 50/50 split? kyrsten sinema and -- majority leader schumer says he will use a loophole to debate voting rights legislation. ca...

Voting issue. these bills were introduced right when this congress started. that was a year ago. a lot of people assumed that after covid relief, it sort of the two tracks here were covid relief which you got done, and the issue of the democracy because of what happened on january 6th. and that urgency stalled. everything got focussed on infrastructure and build back better. and we can have a long debate about what should have come first. but how do you get the urgency back? because i would argu...

To pass. then fast forward, schumer will then introduce something that very likely will change the 60 vote flthreshold, change the filibuster rule, if you will, to a simple majority. that, too, will fail, jessica, because we know senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema making it very clear theyre not about changing the rules here. so there are some alternatives, not that would make everybody happy, looking at the electoral count act, perhaps reforming that. some democrats as well as republicans ...

Marshall, a constitutional professor at the john jay brown of criminal justice and author of book, senior political analyst ryan lizza and play book co-author at "politico." great to have both of you. >> ryan, i want to ask about the hard facts of this, right? where this is going. because he doesnt have the votes. and by the way, its not just joe manchin, kyrsten sinema as well, but there are other democrats as well mark kelly, a handful of others who are still weigh what to do in terms of of wh...