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Piece of legislation coming to democrats prior to the bipartisan infrastructure package. everything else theyve is stopped. leveraged the filibuster in june on the for the people act. even though democrats are negotiating the terms, im not confident that republicans will come through. if schumer is holding out and knows something as far as agreement within the caucus to carve out portion of the filibuster to advance the legislation, bless. this is a do or die moment for democrats to protect the ...

That could be the faster way to get to the ultimate vote on this bipartisan bill. senate majority leader chuck schumer laid it out this way. it is going to happen. it is just a matter of if they take the easy path, which is the shorter path, or the hard path, which is the longer path that weve seen them kind of beginning to trudge down here on this saturday. other senators though seeming to echo that sentiment from schumer, of. listen for example to debbie stabenow last hour with our colleague. ...

On this show that i know you certainly work on the weekend. give me a sense of the moment. whats happening in the senate right now? are we moving closer to something that feels like a process here? >> yes, we are. were going to take a pretty important procedural vote today that pretty much will mean that going forward we will burn 30 hours and the amendments going forward will have to be by unanimous consent. we may be voting on the infrastructure bill. >> when you say unanimous consent, is ther...

Schumer. where do things stand right now? >> well, im smiling because im standing right here waiting. and im really proud of that bill. weve got strong bipartisan support. i worked a lot on the broadband piece. its going to be a game changer for our country, and were going to get this done. right now they have a package of amendments that were trying to get approval on and that takes a while in the senate so we can begin the votes. theres every reason to believe this bill will get done. maybe it...

From boston. eventually they ruled in his favor. but that boston accent is later in the hour. >> i always watch rachels show and you are showing my sweatpants with my mommy water, and i have to, obviously, get through this show in a different way. but im racing upstairs to change into sweatpants and watch your show with my mommy water in hand, all those box in boston accents. >> thank you nikole. thank you. senate majority leader chuck schumer just told the senate that he would be working on sat...

In a different way but i am racing upstairs to change into sweat pants and watch your show and all the boston accents with my mommy water in hand. i cant wait. >> great. thank you. well, senate majority leader chuck schumer just told the senate that they would be working on saturday to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. there remains a slight possibility senator schumer will be able to get the unanimous consent of the senate to vote on final passage of the bill as early as tonight but th...

The needle on voting rights. but now that governor has just called another special session, do you agree with that? do you think that this effort has been fruitful? >> its been very fruitful. i completely agree. and i think that ill point to a couple key points. one is you just mentioned, lead are schumer said it will be a vote on voting rights before the senate recesses in august. we know that there is a group of senators working hard on a revised version of the bill. that will have the support...

The economy. tell us what could be happening with that this weekend in. >> well, look, hes trying to keep the momentum up because last night there was not an agreement that was reached to speed up this process. this weekend the senate is back on capitol hill trying to find some kind of agreement to speed this process up. so far that has been illusive in part because senators have various amendments they want to get voted on and without agreement from all 100 senators, things really start to slow...

Structure, because there is no end to the amendments offered up on this bipartisan bill. can you explain to most americans who are not well versed in the arcane mysterious ways of the senate why this process process matters and schumer is going to say, hey, we have the votes, lets do it. >> the senators want some priorities for their states in the bill. they have priority issues, and many of them are bipartisan, and many of the amendments are sponsored by people in both parties, and so they are ...

Along the second track to our infrastructure effort, and take up the buzz -- budget resolution. a bipartisan infrastructure bill is definitely necessary. but to many of us, it is not sufficient. >> relevant amendments. you caught that, right? no schumers talking about the infrastructure plan, the human. one once the senate passes the reconciliation instructions, committees will take august to write actual legislation. before we go, lets check the. inboxes to asked how the people around you are s...