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Moderate democrats who have been less visible to be sure, but youve got the maggie hassans, youve got virginia, nevada, arizona, i mean, theres no enthusiasm for this. but look, manchin cannot be bought off, he cannot be rolled. he told chuck schumer in june of last year, right, the memo, they both signed a memo and schumer ignored it and i thought that was a terrific mistake, and the white house has tried to roll manchin, pelosi has tried to roll manchin. the guy is a strong guy, i think hes ex...

Republicans must weigh the equities here. so i ask our colleagues in the senate, respectfully for what they think the filibuster means, to compare that to weigh the equities against our democracy. because nothing less is at stake than our democracy. >> manchin and sinema are in the way but are opposed to changing the filibuster. great deal of skepticism. >> no, i dont. may be on life support, but you know, john lewis and others did not give up after the 1964 civil rights act. thats why we got th...

With npr, the man from mar-a-lago said it is an advantage to keep talking about 2020, even as he continued spreading more lies about it. that is, until he was confronted with one too many facts and hung up. >> 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 h...

Would look at them, katie, which is they are trying to think of how far the historians are going to categorize them. are he this going to go down as the democrats that failed in the big ambitious kind of progressive dream, the utopian dream or are they going to be the ones that were willing to do what was necessary to builded bridge to another tomorrow of whatever sort of america, globalist america they want to create. its all about the kind of 30, 40 picture out of pelosi, schumer, and biden th...

Treat starting saturday youll need photo id before heading out if we apply the democrat voting right argument that is worse than voter suppression that is extrajudicial house arrest for black people, time to defend the department of justice civil rights to arrest bowser. there is a lie about drop boxes lawmakers taking them off the street when they were putting them on the streets. in 2019 drop boxes were completely illegal in georgia now there enshrined in law, there is a lie about mailing voti...

Manchin is today, and kierstin cinema needed to do, and because of the way that the institution is performing, and fast forward nine years later, it is exactly what the senate is debating, and trying to pass through the sweeping reform laws as the democrats are trying to do. and it is interesting to hear schumer and reid. reid elevated schumer through the reins of the caucus, and after reid announced he would retire, it was reid who decided that he would elevate schumer to succeed him in the pos...

Oh, okay, i understand that. the democrats go into minutia. they need to have strong positions like this is what were going to get done, make it simple, i dont know what you could do for manchin or sinema. if you went to manchin and said, okay, listen, were going to go back to 1931, the entire country is going to run on coal, he would still have a problem, right? and i dont know what sinema -- i dont know what sinema wants. i dont know what would make her happy. so they do have to somehow come d...

Do so. the senate democratic caucus met last night. essentially, schumer laid out his plan. theyre going to try to push this package forward. republicans will likely reject the bill, as they have three other times in the past. then from there, theyre going to try to bypass the senate filibuster and the 60-vote threshold, as well as implement a talking filibuster just for this one time, in order to pass the voting rights legislation. that effort is going to fail because senator sinema and joe man...

It will divide republicans but i dont think democrats are going to get there. theyre still shooting for the moon on something destined to fail. >> the fact is theyre shooting for the moon and members of their caucus are negotiating a backup plan, which kind of under cuts what schumer and biden are trying to do right now by going big on voting rights, what their colleagues are prepped for the next turn, a much more modest bill on the electoral count act. so look, i think a lot of this for preside...

To ratchet up on voting rights even from the end of the year. but the realities here in the senate have not changed in terms of being able to get that done. in large part, thats because there is no republican support for the voting rights bills that you mentioned. and theres not full democratic unity around changing the rules in order to pass it by a simple majority. those are the stakes right now as we head into tonight. what youre seeing on the screen is what weve been seeing all morning. sena...