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>> reporter: they are looking at a quick time frame to replace justice stephen breyer. im told from a source familiar with the thinking that schumer will try to follow the same time frame republicans employed when they pushed through the confirmation of amy coney barrett in 2020 just days before the 2020 election. democrats pushed back and opposed here and said mitch mcconnell said that precedent when he refused to move forward on president obamas nominee in 2016 of merrick garland to serve on t...

For the last word with lawrence odonnell. >> good evening rachel. whos breaking during this hour, includes us from politico about senator sinema, meeting with a small group of senate democrats on rules changes this evening. in the lbj room, in the capital. this is possible indication that the public pressure that both joe biden and judge schumer put on senators manchin and sinema today, might be nudging them a bit. the report says that the senators in this meeting, in addition to sinema were, ti...

Analyst and washington reporter tanu. manu, the end result appears to be a foregone conclusion with this push toward voting rights bills. but what are you watching for in this moment? >> reporter: the question is going to be how far does chuck schumer take this. we know the vote to actually overcome a republican filibuster is expected to happen tomorrow. theyre not going to get those 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. at that point, chuck schumer could move to go to change the senates filibuster...

Are like, kehey, they want to te your gun, and they want to kill your, babies. and thats all they say. and then there are people like, oh, okay, i understand that. the democrats go into minutia. they need to have strong positions like,ti this is what were going to get done. this is -- make it simple. i dont know what you could do fort manchin or sinema, if you went to manchin and said, o listen, were going back to 1931. the entireba country is going t run on coal. he would still have a problem. ...

Republicans would do national voting rights? this is a bad maneuver. schumer will look foolish, come up short and look weak as a result. he has two democrats, sinema and manchin saying were not going for it. i suspect theres more democrats back there that agree with sinema and manchin more than they agree with schumer. >> charles: they dont want to be beaten up by the mainstream media that is going to town on sinema. the things that they say about her this weekend. great seeing you. happy new ye...

>> sandra: senate majority leader chuck schumer pushing forward with plans to change the filibuster customs to pass the voting rights bill, but likely blocked by at least two members of his own party. chad pergram, what can you tell us about those plans? >> im not hearing program. >> sandra: if you can hear me, you are live on the air. ok. we will try to get back to him quickly. i know he was going to throw to the sound of schumer on the senate floor. listen. >> senate democrats are under no ill...

Not be legitimate unless, they say, congress passes the partys bill to federalize elections. here to talk about that house minority leader kevin mccarthy. good morning to you and thank you for coming back. the quote from the president on wednesday was i think it easily could be illegitimate. jen psaki came on yesterday and said he was not suggesting that. how did you hear it? >> well, every day we hear something from the president and the next day we hear the correction. so im not quite sure wha...

The rules to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation. >> that, though, isnt gonna work. schumers plan would mean democrats could pass voting rights legislation with a simple majority. talking filibuster. but senator joe manchin who has long opposed any changes to the filibuster is not onboard with this new plan. >> thats never happened in the history of our country. basically, theres never been a simple-majority vote to -- to basically get off of the -- of the debate. i will never cha...

He said that he has had a counterproposal. so hes been back and forth on it. and i think there is still a window of opportunity for all of us to make the -- make the case to him that this is good for west virginia and the rest of the country. and schumer -- the senate leadership to bring the bill to the floor. >> the head of the progressive caucus -- congresswoman jayapal wrote in that op-ed in "the washington post" yesterday urging the president to take executive action and to move forward with...

Schumer pelosi teams for reasons i dont understand went out of their way to take things they can get done. they knew that they did not have senator manchin or senator cinema. they knew they were going to lose the vote in the senate. they just kept pounding on and by the way these are not very popular bills. i mean, if you ask people if they want to see more spending and have more inflation, the answer is overwhelmingly now. if you asked people if they want a bill which would block identifying vo...