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And so i -- and theres still a fundamental problem with pay-for the. is any senate republican going to accept increasing taxes? im skeptical about that. so theres a lot of positive talking right now between the two parties. these two men. but again, its going to come down to the specifics that the devil is in the details. when it comes to that, theyre still pretty far apart. >> cassidy is an interesting target because he has very, you know, defiantly bucked gop leadership voting to convict presi...

Working very quietly behind the scenes for the last couple of weeks. because those senators did not want to step on toes of the ongoing white house and capito negotiations, they had kept their efforts under wraps. now last night they had a larger group of members who met behind closed doors for hours. there were pizzas brought in. they clearly were trying to find some kind of way forward because the bottom line is now is the time if a bipartisan deal is actually going to come together. remember ...

Raid, made a carve-out for a corpse of appeal. and maybe on this issue of voting rights which is so fundamental and so important to the cohesion of the country that maybe you and president biden and senator schumer can work something out that satisfies all of the parties and gets this done. i would work on that. i sure would. and i think senator manchin, first of all, he is a democrat. he had a tougher race than you think in 2018. he would have won by 35 points if he changed parties. i dont thin...

January 6th was over 5 months ago but the ride and it was not an insurrection give the democrats a perfect cover to do what they always wanted to do, shut the capital to the public for good so they spent hundreds of millions of our dollars erecting fences, razor wire, multiplying the number of security personnel and all those barriers. >> when it is put forth we will have a discussion as to what happens with the fencing. laura: the removed the national guard but fencing is still there and the en...

24/7 security year round and they still voted not to protect the police officers that protect them. i think its a disgrace that congress is not held responsible or held accountable for what they do. >> let me play, this is senate schumer on the point that we still need an independent body to answer those same questions that you just heard officer jones bring up. take a listen. >> well we do believe there ought to be a commission to go forward. they avoided the two words, donald trump. republican...

Conversation. >> no, i dont think anybody changed positions on that. we are just learning where everybody is coming from more. >> liberal democrat incinerated manchin for his opposition to the voting bill. >> i understand. >> republicans believe democrats are just trying to apiece their base. >> majority leader decided that june is the check the box month with all of the extreme left wing provisions that they support that have been come out of the house. >> a canyon ons between liberals and mode...

And i think theyre both people of good judgment. lets see if they can come up with something. im totally think that there is some way we can do this better and pick up seats in 2022. were talking about having 7% growth now. we have that, that would be great. >> what would you say to manchin on the filibuster? >> id say first of all, presumptuous because i know the state he runs in and how he does things. but you know, senator, we can keep it in place. the republicans made a carve-out to the supr...

Personnel and all of those barriers. >> when we have the supplemental put forth which is pretty soon, and we will have a discussion as to what happens with the fencing and the rest. >> laura: they remove the national guard, but fencing is still there. and the entire capital zone has a militarized look and feel. it is very disturbing. now we reached out to chuck schumer and nancy pelosis office, and the spokesperson sae speaker expects security professionals to make security decisions. and schume...

Autocratic imposes from the r democratic party. hes the person standing in the way of saving american democracy when we can pass for the people act. there is no substitute for the people act. it is the only thing thatll save our democracy and we have to move quickly in order to do that. >> representative jones, despite his views here, are you better off having manchin in the seat or kirsten cinema for her seat. schumer would not be the majority leader, would you have a bigger problem? >> look, i...

Manchin said hell vote against it. in an op-ed manchin write that is he wont support a partisan effort and reaffirms he will not abolish the filibuster. joining me now is leigha n n caldwell. what happens now? >> reporter: those plans have not changed. schumer insists to bring it to the floor in june. potentially the week of june 21. im told that the caucus, the democratic caucus is going to keep discussing the voting -- the for the people act to see if theres any way that they can get manchin o...